Back in September, Nintendo revealed that the Kingdom Hearts "Sora" Amiibo for the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate line was coming sometime next year. Now, Nintendo has revealed exactly when: February 16, 2024. Nintendo revealed the release date late last night, on December 6, with a short video on Twitter showcasing the Amiibo. As expected, it adopts the look of Sora in the first Kingdom Hearts – a fan-favorite – with his trademark smile and keyblade hoisted over the shoulder. Check out...
In this exclusive cover story video, Game Informer sits down with Massive Entertainment's senior leadership – Ditte Deenfeldt, Drew Rechner, Anne Reid, and Chella Ramanan – to discuss the making of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, which releases this week. Read our review of the open-world adventure right here. The Making Of Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora: ...
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://www.gameinformer.com/sites/default/files/styles/body_default/public/2023/12/06/2f3f444d/open_roads_keri_russell_kaitlyn_dever_release_date_trailer.jpg" width="800" height="450" alt="Open Roads February Release Date Trailer Keri Russell Kaitlyn Dever" typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-body-default" /></p> <p>Open Roads, the narrative adventure game starring Keri R...
Alongside the launch of Fortnite Chapter 5: Season 1, Epic Games revealed Lego Fortnite, a new experience that takes the familiarity of Fortnite and mashes it together with Lego for a new survival adventure experience. Today, Epic Games and Lego released a cinematic trailer for Lego Fortnite that reveals crafting, combat, multiplayer team-ups, a massive world to explore, and more. The trailer begins with a standard Fortnite character – Brite Bomber – running into a reality-shifting rift that t...
Mortal Kombat 1 launched back in September and became one of our favorite games of the year – read why in Game Informer's Mortal Kombat 1 review here. Since its release, developer NetherRealm Studios has released additional characters, like Invincible's Omni-Man, while teasing other new fighters like Quan Chi and DC's Peacemaker. Now, Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon has teased even more new content on the way. During the recent CCXP23 event in Brazil, Boon revealed that ...
Reviewed on: PC Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PC Publisher: Ubisoft Developer: Ubisoft Massive Release: December 7, 2023 The Avatar films are great fun but have never blown me away with original storytelling. Instead, the translation of familiar formulas into a vibrant and visually arresting alien world elevates the films. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora follows that same tack, featuring first-person exploration and combat that borrows liberally from franchises like Far Cry. But here...
In September, Konami announced it was going back to Contra's 2D roots with a sort of reimagining of the NES original dubbed Contra: Operation Galuga. The game, developed by Wayforward, features six playable heroes, and a new trailer runs down each one and what they bring to the table. The trailer also provides another look at Operation Galuga’s modernized run-and-gun action, which harkens back to the classics with up to four players working together to blast apart enemies. Operation Galuga ser...
With Grand Theft Auto VI taking players to a modern-day Vice City, you've likely asked yourself: just how Florida is Rockstar's portrayal of the Sunshine State? Watch Game Informer's two resident Florida men, Marcus Stewart and Wesley LeBlanc, provide their expert analysis of the hotly anticipated trailer, point out everything that's frighteningly real, and give their thoughts on what else GTA VI needs to be the ultimate Florida simulator. Head over to Game Informer's YouTube c...
Platform: PlayStation 5 Publisher: PlayStation Studios Developer: Naughty Dog Release: January 19, 2024 Rating: Mature Following in the footsteps of its predecessor, The Last of Us Part II is getting the big remaster treatment in January, over three years after it was released for PlayStation 4. This updated version leverages the PlayStation 5’s hardware with graphical bells and whistles like native 4K resolution, improved textures, and unlocked framerate. It also adds new interactive goodies...
The Last of Us Part II Remastered arrives in January, and we got to take a hands-on tour of its new roguelite mode, No Return. The mode tasks players with surviving a randomized series of levels as their favorite The Last of Us characters with ever-changing stipulations, enemies, and perks. Join Marcus Stewart and Charles Harte as they break down No Return's features and give their overall impressions so far. Head over to Game Informer's YouTube channel for more previews, review...