Anyone who appreciates the loneliness and isolation in games like Super Metroid and Limbo will fall immediately in love with Closure. Winner of the DICE 2012 Indie Game Challenge, Closure is a puzzle-platformer for PSN that taps into man's primordial fear of the dark in ways which few games has ever quite understood. One of the very first things you're likely to do in the game is walk just beyond a light source and immediately fall to your doom. You see, the world of Closure is sprinkled with light sources that not only illuminate the world, but actually bring it into existence. Step outside the beam of a spotlight or glow of a light bulb, and you'll find yourself tumbling down into a void of nothingness. While black space in Limbo was used primarily to advance the mood and atm
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Silent Hill is the most ambitious survival horror series in video games -- one that (ideally) tosses aside its previous characters and repurposes a sleepy tourist town into a home for scattered souls and psychological terrors. This philosophy of starting anew each time is one of the signature elements that define the series, while other factors have contributed to making the horror more psychological. Rather than play on with the same terrifying creatures and gimmicks, the best Silent Hill games go one step further by attempting to challenge the player's understanding of reality, often presenting emotionally weary characters who slowly unravel a looming, and sometimes personal, mystery. While Silent Hill Downpour gets a lot of this right, it also stretches that last aspect a little too far.
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Square Enix announced Final Fantasy Versus XIII way back at E3 in 2006, along with its peers Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Agito XIII. Since then, both vanilla XIII and Agito have actually seen release -- Agito under the new name "Type-0" -- and the former has even enjoyed a recent sequel. Yet Versus remains nowhere to be seen; Square didn't e
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Chair Entertainment's first major Infinity Blade 2 update is due out next week. It introduces welcome interface tweaks, new enemy designs and fresh equipment to master, but the true star is unquestionably the game's brand-new ClashMobs feature. ClashMobs are accessible at any time from Infinity Blade 2's main menu. These special battles give gamers an opportunity to work cooperatively with hundreds (or thousands) of other players in order to take down enemies with truly massive health pools. If everyone that bands together manages to get the job done, they're rewarded with cash, gems, or other exclusive loot. Fail, and players can just try again the next day, since new ClashMobs will be kicking off on a regular basis. 
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