38 days ago by Balend Naoom

This might sound familiar. In 2009, Joystiq awarded Batman: Arkham Asylum its number three spot in that year’s top ten list of games and here we are, two years later, giving that game’s sequel the same honor. But it’s not the same honor. Referencing the failure to launch of Pandemic’s open-world Dar ...

39 days ago by Balend Naoom

Skyrim is going to get tons of accolades all over this year, and deservedly so, but Deus Ex: Human Revolution pulled me into its world more effectively than any other game in 2011. It didn’t do everything right. Obviously, there were the boss battles. They required a narrow combat approach, playing ...

39 days ago by blogtech

The Entertainment Software Association has addressed recent discussion of its involvement with SOPA, confirming to Joystiq that it has no intention of withdrawing support. The controversial bill, which maintains growing popular disapproval, shall continue to have the backing of a large section of th ...

40 days ago by Balend Naoom

If there’s hope for mainstream video games, it’s represented by Saints Row: The Third. Yes, I know, it has dildo bats and treats women like objects and maybe leans a bit too hard on gags aimed squarely at Fratty McKegbeer, but look just beneath the surface and you’ll find a game that loves and respe ...

40 days ago by Balend Naoom

This sojourn in hell inspires the most intense evangelism, and that makes me think that nobody in EA’s marketing department bothered to play Shadows of the Damned. Even those who acted as envoys for the game’s off-kilter charms, those people who were unpaid but still rewarded, might have gotten stuc ...

40 days ago by Balend Naoom

It’s a crying shame that, for the uninitiated masses, Dark Souls will primarily be remembered for its considerable difficulty. It’s an absolutely true shame, of course. To my recollection, no other game’s punishment caused my brother to literally break a controller in a fit of rage, delete his save ...

40 days ago by Balend Naoom

Curtailing the year to just ten top games is our annual act of brutality. If it seems unfair, hostile and without victory, it’s because we spent much of 2011 sweating and squirming in the crushing grip of Dark Souls. Sooner or later you become addicted to no-win scenarios. While our ten favorite gam ...

41 days ago by gregg

EVE Evolved: All there is to know about DUST 514 Joystiq A lot of current EVE players are genuinely disappointed at the lack of a PC release for DUST 514, and as several PS3 games already have mouse and keyboard support, I unfortunately have to count myself among the disappointed. Closed beta tests ...

41 days ago by Balend Naoom

If my life were a book, the chapter covering the last quarter of 2011 would be one page long and contain one phrase, in bold: Gears of War 3. In reality, lots of things happened to me over the last couple months, but aside from a brief affair with Skyrim, most of my time was spent going to farmers m ...

41 days ago by Brianna Royce

Filed under: Massively Meta, Week in Review, Miscellaneous At the end of every week, we round up the best and most popular news stories, exclusive features, and insightful columns published on Massively and then present them all in one convenient place. Miss a big MMO or WoW Insider story last week? ...