Eric Van Allen


Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer Beta Preview Watch this video on YouTube Halo 5: Guardians may be one of the most anticipated upcoming exclusives right now for Microsoft. The follow-up to Halo 4 and the second in a new trilogy, it has quite a franchise to live up to.There’s
by Eric Van Allen
Electronic Arts debuted its new game mode Hotwire for the upcoming Battlefield Hardline, in demo form, at last weekend’s Playstation Experience. A strange mix of vehicular combat and traditional Battlefield mechanics, players have to control certain cars until they’re destroyed, to stop their ticket bar from depleting faster
by Eric Van Allen
At last weekend’s Playstation Experience, I got the chance to play a few matches of a new installment in a classic franchise, Mortal Kombat X. Featuring a bevy of new fighters and plenty more changes to the standard formula, I was worried about how true to the franchise X
by Eric Van Allen
Dungeon Defenders 2 was on showcase at Sony’s Playstation Experience, and we got a chance to play through one of the game’s levels and talk a bit with the devs. Much like its predecessor, Dungeon Defenders 2 looks to not only improve on its own formula, but to
by Eric Van Allen
Loadout, a third-person shooter with a quirky sense of humor and billions of customization options, has already made a splash on PC. Developer Edge of Reality, however, doesn’t seem content to stop there, and we got to demo their PS4 build recently at the Playstation Experience. Right off the
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Some games have you save the world. Some have you rescue the princess, or journey to a foreign land. But how many let you take over a studio and produce your own sentai TV show? Well, Chroma Squad is here to save the day, one episode at a time. A
by Eric Van Allen
Jungle Rumble, the new Vita title from Disco Pixel, is a fascinating hybrid of puzzle and rhythm, mixed with a perfect amount of cartoon monkey antic. You take command of a tribe of monkeys, venturing to defend their Sage from angry red monkeys and find out what’s causing all
by Eric Van Allen
PixelNAUTS, an indie Canadian developer behind the environments in 2013’s Contrast, were at the Playstation Experience with their new space-based speeder, Lost Orbit. I got a chance to check it out and chat with developers Chris and Alex, and die a few hundred times along the way. Lost Orbit
by Eric Van Allen