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During the Spring Showcase, Microsoft showed off South Park: Tenorman’s Revenge and was looking to get a spring release but when? We now have a confirmed date of March …
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Those of you with a keen eye might have noticed a certain limbo-esque feel to one of the Trials Evolution levels briefly shown in the Arcade Next promotion trailer. …
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It’s a hard wait for Might & Delight’s upcoming Pid but we can’t wait to get our hands on the platforming action from space and neon backpacks. The developer …
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After that pre-alpha look at the upcoming platformer, Runner2, we finally have some more polished gameplay to show off. You’ll notice from the gameplay details that CommanderVideo has gotten …
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Sega seems to be doing a lot of porting these days don’t they? From re-releases of Crazy Taxi and Sonic Adventure to even franchises on the Sega Saturn with Guardian Heroes and Radiant Silvergun. With the HD Jet Set Radio finally on the way, we thought we’d take a look at five games that should be re-made in HD for our digital platform. Some of them could be huge online hits and some are just bizarre games that would work great under a 1200 or less MSP price-point. So let’s worry about Y2K again before worrying about the apocalypse in this list.
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Gone are the days when publishers needed to have an actual launch date hammered out before releasing a “launch trailer.” D3 Publisher and 2XL Games have released just …
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Pinball FX2 developer Zen Studios is running a competition across the next week (23-30 March). The prize? An I Love Pinball hoodie (pictured) and a code for whatever game …
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Klei, developers of Shank and its recently released sequel, Shank 2, recently announced their new project, Mark of the Ninja. We have the fortune of bringing you another interview with Klei’s founder, Jamie Cheng. This time, he’s been kind enough to talk about Mark of the Ninja in some detail regarding the team’s approach to the game and their gameplay goals. We’ve also got preview content coming up after PAX East, so stick around after this!

Shank is definitely a kinetic, quick paced beat ’em up and never denies that, but Mark of the Ninja is no brawler; in fact it’s far from it. So we had to ask: why a stealth game?

According to Cheng, the team at Klei that’s been working on Mark of the Ninja grew up with ninjas and, simply put, they wanted to make a game that does ninjas justice. “When I play other stealth games you don’t feel like a ninja, you feel like Shank actually. We wanted one where you actually felt sneaky, felt like an actual ninja.”

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We’ve had a teaser trailer and most recently the debut trailer for Telltale Games‘ upcoming adapaption of the Walking Dead comic book series, but what those videos have lacked …
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Just as the House Party has wrapped up, Microsoft is planning a whole new promotion with Arcade Next and it’s bringing a slew of anticipated titles home to our …
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