Author: Alex Van Aken

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is now available, and if you’re a fan of games like Metroid, Castlevania, or Hollow Knight, and you don’t have it on your radar, that’s probably a mistake. The game is a thrilling adventure, with plenty of excellent combat, puzzle, and traversal challenges. Once you get far enough in…

In this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, the crew discusses our Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League preview (we played several hours at a recent event), our very highly-rated Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown review, and we circle back to our video game release calendar to highlight the 2024 games we’re most excited for…

In this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, returning guest and editor of this podcast, Matt Storm, joins us to discuss our most anticipated games of 2024. We dive into Game Informer’s 2024 game release calendar and go month-by-month, highlighting the projects we’re most looking forward to.  Watch The Podcast To Learn About Upcoming Games In 2024:  Follow…

The Finals offers rare novelty in the competitive multiplayer genre, encouraging creative strategies impossible in other titles because of its immense environmental destruction, physics-based hazards, and armory of whimsical gadgets. This first-person shooter occurs amid a digital game show where varying counts of three-person teams fight over money caches in an objective-focused format. The Finals…

In this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, special guest Michael Higham (Fanbyte, GameSpot) joins us to discuss our Final Fantasy VII Rebirth cover story, The Finals review, and our favorite games of 2023. The Game Informer Show #686 Podcast: Follow us on social media: Alex Van Aken (@itsVanAken), Marcus Stewart (@MarcusStewart7), Kyle Hilliard (@KyleMHilliard), Michael…

We recently sat down with Embark Studios’ Creative Director Gustav Tilleby and Senior Environment Artist Joakim Stigsson in the hours leading up to The Finals’ stealth release at The Game Awards.  We covered the making of the competitive first-person shooter, how the Embark team designed its destructible environments according to real-life architecture, and what it…

In this exclusive cover story video, Game Informer sits down with Massive Entertainment’s senior leadership – Ditte Deenfeldt, Drew Rechner, Anne Reid, and Chella Ramanan – to discuss the making of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, which releases this week. Read our review of the open-world adventure right here. The Making Of Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora: www.gameinformer.com

In this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, the crew discusses our predictions for The Game Awards’ category winners and game reveals, Alex’s unofficial Modern Warfare III multiplayer review, Kyle’s Super Mario RPG remake review, and what it’s like starting the Like A Dragon series with The Man Who Erased His Name. Before diving into this week’s listener…

Earlier this summer, amid an incoming typhoon, Game Informer visited the Bandai Hobby Center Shinkan, the 132,000-square-foot factory where the entertainment company manufactures its iconic Gundam model kits. If you purchase a new Gundam model kit at your local store today, it originated in this facility in Shizuoka, Japan. The factory contains 35 plastic color-molding…