When you write a book and declare the top 100 console games of all time, it’s a bit of a sticky subject. Top lists of any kind are always subjective, but it’s the conversation that arises from those lists that are always entertaining. “Why didn’t you include
Being committed to a fiction requires more than a slick veneer to pull your audience in. It requires a great deal of backstory, detail, and in the case of Assassin’s Creed, filling in large swaths of history. The team at Insight Editions did exactly that last year for The
This is how it’s done.
There are art books that I’ve checked out in the past that give you the journey from inception to release, but others that seem to focus almost exclusively on the final product. The latter makes for a far more compelling look behind the
Games are awesome, but sometimes a little difficult. It can be hard to find the one requirement to top off your achievements, or to really tell the difference between different weapons. We recently got an opportunity to go hands-on with Brady Games’ strategy guide for the recently released Call of
I bet if I stopped somebody on the street and asked them to hum the theme to Game of Thrones they’d likely look at me like I’d lost my mind. They’d also, more than likely, be one of the 14.2 million viewers that have come to
We are rapidly approaching the launch of the next chapter in the Assassin’s Creed series; furling our sails to make landfall in Revolutionary France. But Ubisoft isn’t quite done with their time on the high seas, dropping in Assassin’s Creed Rogue this year for good measure. While
If you read my review of Watch Dogs you know that I enjoyed the hacking culture of the game quite a bit. It, like other Titan Books productions, is a collection of some of the incredible artwork behind the top games coming out of the industry. Penned by Andy McVittie
The Last of Us was a fantastic achievement in storytelling and art direction – in fact, we liked it so much that we named it 2013’s Game of the Year. It was a triumph, a marriage of narrative, gameplay, characters that, while seeming to tread familiar ground, took us on
