Monthly Archives: February 2015
Game Trailers Roundup for February 2, 2015
Anyone catch the big game yesterday? I’m writing this Sunday afternoon before the game so I’m going to give you two intros for today’s Game Trailers Roundup.
If the game was boring: Unlike the Super Bowl, we have some exciting things for you to watch today. We have five trailers for you, including three launch trailers for games that are out now (Dying Light, Grim Fandango and Life is Strange). Maybe you should have flipped on a console rather than watched that game. Or split the difference and play on you Wii U’s GamePad.
If the game was actually exciting: Just like the balls were actually inflated in the Super Bowl, it’s time to inflate your hopes for upcoming video games with today’s roundup. Yeah, that’s a terrible segue but everyone else has done a #Ballghazi joke so why not me too? Anyway, there are five trailers for you to watch today. And none are for that mobile game that used Kate Upton in its Super Bowl ad.
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Evolve Closed Beta Impressions: Evolution, But Not Revolution
Don’t look now but I’m pretty sure the game demo is dead. In its place are “betas” that accomplish a multitude of things simultaneously. They act as a demo without needing to polish a vertical slice of the game. That’s because they can slice out a portion for QA testing by the general public without paying professional QA testers to find problems with the game. And by limiting access to betas, devs and publishers drum up demand relative to supply to goad people into pre-ordering the game to get into the beta.
Shockingly, this doesn’t bring us to Heroes of the Storm. That’s a column for another day. It does bring us to Evolve. Turtle Rock Studios left E3 with the whole world in its hands after cleaning up most of the major E3 awards. However, 2K seems hell-bent on throwing it all away with their utterly confusing and transparently greedy pre-order, season pass, deluxe edition and DLC scheme.
So when Turtle Rock gave us one last chance to get a taste of Evolve before its February release date, everyone who could jumped at the opportunity. But was this one last taste of Evolve enough to convince me to spend $60+ on the game from the Left 4 Dead developers?
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