I’ve always been a fan of games which choose to reduce visual imagery to it’s barest form. When I saw Playdead’s LIMBO I knew it’d be a game I’d want to checkout. It’s been popping up everywhere. But I have to admit after checking out the video on it’s site, and seeing many screenshots, I am [...]
Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption looks great, as the video above shows. I like the trimmed down UI, and the quick shot of the “store” UI looked pretty slick as well. Interesting choice for that persistent mini map in that lower left. Looks like it with lifted right from Grand Theft Auto IV.
Okay, this has nothing to do with game UI, but when I saw Kotaku had posted this box cover for Borderlands I had to repost it here. Its. Simply. Amazing.
The popularity of themes seem to come in in waves on every medium: books, television, movies and games are no different. Sci-Fi is popular for a while and then Fantasy then World War Two games take the spotlight. Now it seems we have moved once again into the territory of the wild west. Rockstar’s Red [...]
TouchArcade (via IGN) posted two screens for Gameloft’s upcoming Assassin’s Creed. The game looks quite fetching, nice three dimensional environments, decent textures (much improved over the DS version,) and an interesting setting. But… you see I don’t want to talk about Assassin’s Creed, not really, I want to talk about the current lack of innovation when it [...]