Games

Made by programmer Ty Taylor and artist Mario Castañeda, The Bridge is a two-dimensional game where players manipulate gravity to solve puzzles in a world where “Isaac Newton meets M.C. Escher.”

(Gore) The latest developer preview of Tomb Raider shows us how Lara Croft will develop into someone sneaky, cunning and lethal enough to make the reboot of her franchise look like a Rambo sequel.

The “Lamb of Columbia” trailer frames the game as a search and rescue mission. As Booker DeWitt, players will journey to the floating city of Columbia to rescue the mysterious Elizabeth.

Developer Guerilla Games dropped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to demo Killzone: Shadow Fall, one of the launch titles for the PlayStation 4. The elusive console was still nowhere to be seen.

An upcoming “riot simulator” for PC, Mac, iOS & Android where victory and defeat are not so easily defined. Based on real-world events, RIOT lets you play either as a protester or a law enforcer.

Currently in development, Project Awakened is a third-person action game for the PC that puts emphasis on creating your own super-powered character. Think City of Heroes on a smaller scale.

Sony shows off game highlights from their PS4 announcement, with high-def teasers for DriveClub, Knack, Deep Down, inFAMOUS: Second Son, Killzone Shadow Fall, and The Witness.

Some of the unique features in Gears of War: Judgment’s multiplayer mode, including new weapons, new maps with more vertical spaces, as well as new armor skins and other rewards.

There Came an Echo is an upcoming real-time strategy game that will allow players to use voice commands to control their characters. Players will also be able to record alternate voice commands.

From Bungie – the developers who created Halo – comes Destiny, an online first-person shooter with both single-player and multiplayer modes. It seems to have a mobile app component as well.

Blizzard talks about the new features in StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm that they have included to help both newcomers and veterans play how they want, such as a tutorial and unranked multiplayer.

Vladimir Tomin reimagines the fate-deciding Rock, Paper, Scissors as an application in the style of a tower defense game. It kind of takes chance out of the equation, but maybe that’s a good thing.

The guys from GameFails show off one of the “totally real” moments in the glitch-filled WWE ’13 video game. The answer is simple, really… David Copperfield is now a pro wrestler.

In anticipation of the release of the Oculus Rift VR headset, Nathan Andrews made a Half-Life 2 mod with head- and weapon tracking. The mod is free, but his makeshift VR system is not for newbies.

Police officer Chase McCain will don disguises, solve puzzles and ride all sorts of vehicles to catch the silly criminals of LEGO City. It’s probably the closest the Wii U will get to a GTA game for now.

Pop Chart Lab updated their Evolution of Video Game Controllers infographic, converting it from a poster to a t-shirt. The graphic contains more than 100 controllers spanning 60 years of gaming.

Owing more than a nod to the hit Xbox Live Trials series, Urban Trial Freestyle brings side-scrolling bike mayhem to the PlayStation 3, PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS with a little help from Julien Dupont.

(NSFW: Language) A peek at the creepy zombies that inhabit the post-apocalyptic world of Naughty Dog’s action-survival game The Last of Us. We also get a peek at the game’s RPG elements.

“What goes up, must come down.” So goes this ominous and action-packed gameplay trailer for Bioshock Infinite. Players will once again find themselves in a world both beautiful and diabolical.