Electronic Arts
Need for Speed: Most Wanted keeps its foot on the gas.
Video games released recently include The Unfinished Swan, Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Skylanders Giants and Letterpress.
Video Game Review
Where Hungry Rats Will Do the Dirty Work
By CHRIS SUELLENTROP
In Dishonored, a bodyguard framed for a killing uses violent means to clear his name.
New Video Games
New games this fall include titles like NBA 2K13, Tokyo Jungle, Borderlands 2, XCOM and the Room.
Arts & Leisure
Gaming Faces Its Archenemy: Financial Reality
By CHRIS SUELLENTROP and STEPHEN TOTILO
Video-game retail sales are faltering. Will Nintendo’s coming Wii U prove the industry’s salvation?
Video Game Review
It’s Bioterrorism, and Even the President’s a Zombie
By STEPHEN TOTILO
Resident Evil 6, an ambitious mediocrity, is a 25-hour adventure set across four globe-spanning campaigns in a near future featuring a worldwide outbreak of bioterrorism.
Video Game Review
A Monster, but No Epic Battle
By CHRIS SUELLENTROP
Papo & Yo is a fable that plays off events from the creator’s childhood with an alcoholic father.
Video Game Review
Cash Crops, Emphasis on the Cash
By STEPHEN TOTILO
The new video game FarmVille 2 is a slicker, more attractive — and more money-hungry — version of the original.
Video Game Review
Horn, From Zynga
The apprentice blacksmith in Horn has the ability to break a curse that has turned humans into stone creatures.
Video Game Review
Madden NFL 13, From Electronic Arts
Madden NFL 13 freshens the running, throwing and tackling players have come to expect in this series.
Video Game Review
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, From Activison
The latest entry of the Transformers franchise is the tale of the final hours of a dying world.
Video Game Review
Super Hexagon, From Terry Cavanagh
A player’s persistence is tested in Super Hexagon, a game involving a triangle and a maze.
Video Game Review
Slender: The Eight Pages
In the horror game Slender: The Eight Pages, players are stalked by a faceless figure.
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