Reported on as rumor before being confirmed in a Ubisoft blog post, Assassin's Creed Infinity is an upcoming multiple-games-in-one-package service game. That's a big departure for the Assassin's Creed franchise to take, which has largely been a series of individual games that heavily explore a single location and setting. Below, we've rounded up everything we know about Infinity as we head into Summer Game Fest and all the Not-E3 summer events.Given how early Infinity is in development, we don't...
We've emerged from the depths of the BioShock series to begin a fresh season of Video Gameography! We're doing things differently this time as we're discussing the gameography of a developer rather than covering an individual game series. That studio is Supergiant Games, the acclaimed indie developer of Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, and Hades. This week, we conclude our season by analyzing 2020's Hades. Unlike Supergiant Games' previous titles, Hades had two release dates. Its firs...
This week on All Things Nintendo, Brian is joined by fellow Game Informer editor John Carson to dig deep on the Nintendo Switch Online subscription service. The two start the conversation by comparing the three platform holders' various subscription services before chatting about what Nintendo Switch Online could do to become a better overall service for players. If you'd like to follow the people from this episode on Twitter, hit the following links: Brian Shea (@brianpshea),&nb...
Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC Publisher: Fireline Games Developer: Fireline Games Release: 2022 Fueled Up is a four-player couch co-op game set in space announced last month and the first trailer had us convinced it would make for some chaotic, and great, co-op sessions. We couldn't help ourselves so we reached out to Fireline Games to ask if we could play it and they said yes. And now, today, you get to watch more than 20 minutes of our gamepl...
The conclusion to the first season of Master Chief's TV adventures is finally here, but did it stick the landing or continue to frustrate us? Join us for another special episode of The GI Show, where we're reviewing both episode nine of Halo and season one as a whole. The regular team is back to wrap up the season, but we couldn't do a Halo review without a familiar friend. Alex Stadnik, Brian Shea, and Andrew Reiner are joined by Kate Sánchez, founder of But Why Tho? to break down the highs a...
Mergers, acquisitions, and consolidation are all the rage with major conglomerates these days. Microsoft is in the process of acquiring Activision Blizzard, Discovery and Time Warner have recently finished merging into one mega-media empire, and Sony is bringing Destiny developer Bungie into the PlayStation family. What we didn't know about is a now-failed bid for NBC Universal to strengthen its hand by folding Electronic Arts into its corporate umbrella. According to a report from D...
This week marks the end of the first season of Halo's television adaptation, and while it was a rocky season, at least you can enjoy listening to the GI editors talk the ups and downs. The finale of the special GI Show review series is now available to watch or listen to here. With the end of that season also comes the end of the week, which was full of plenty of great Game Informer stories to catch up on over the weekend. We announced our newest cover story! Check out our announcement&nb...
The revival and reinvention of Disney's Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers hits Disney+ today with a new film that turns the chipmunk duo's cartoon adventures into a Hollywood-focused satire set years after their fame has faded. In it, Chip and Dale deal with the realities of staying relevant in an industry that has changed significantly over the course of multiple decades. In one scene at a fan convention, the Rangers run into a familiar face that we never thought we'd actually see in...
2022 is a big year for Final Fantasy. It's the franchise's 35th anniversary, and a major anniversary milestone for multiple individual FF titles. Final Fantasy V's 30th anniversary, Final Fantasy VII's 25th anniversary, and Final Fantasy XI's 20th anniversary all take place this year.In a recent earnings call translated by David Gibson, Square Enix said announcements for Final Fantasy's 35th anniversary celebration are likely to come at the end of this month or June (which is home to Summer Game...
There's nothing quite like playing through a fantastic game and feeling like you're in on a little secret. It could be a mostly-forgotten title of the past or a game that only gained acclaim and recognition a decade after launch, but there have been a whole bunch of fantastic cult video games over the years. Some are from famous studios that would go on to make wildly successful games, while others are from studios that fizzled before they got much of a chance. These are the best cult video game...