All Stories Tagged: 2K Games, Page 54

It's no secret that publishers often foist multiplayer modes upon single-player-focused games to make them more attractive to would-be customers, but it's rare to hear a developer speak so openly and contemptuously of this practice as Spec Ops: The Line lead designer Cory Davis does about its bolted-on multiplayer. The box-ticking addition 2K Games wanted turned out to be a "low-quality Call of Duty clone in third-person," hes said, which "tossed out the creative pillars of the product."

You wouldn't know it from watching the bang-pow-quote-cinematic-die-die trailers, but XCOM: Enemy Unknown is actually a turn-based tactical affair in the same vein as the widely-celebrated original X-COM games. Fortunately, publisher 2K decided to show off the game itself yesterday, though you'll have missed it if you don't follow social Twitfacestreams. So come, enjoy over an hour of tactical delights.

Just in time for the release of Borderlands 2, PlayStation Plus' "Instant Game Collection" will add the original Borderlands next month.

The scene on the ground is pandemonium. People are dying out there, and the enemy is still unknown. The new trailer for XCOM from Firaxis shows off the need to train good soldiers to keep your team's casualties to a minimum.

Spec Ops: The Line is getting a free co-op update today, offering four objective-based scenarios for two players.

Borderlands 2 for PC will predictably come with fancy graphics effects not found in the console versions. Among them is support for Nvidia PhysX.

While Yager's decision to take 2K's Spec Ops series into psychological territory was commendable, there's one feature that irked many gamers the wrong way: achievements.

For the first time in an XCOM (and X-COM) game, you'll be able to partake in one-on-one deathmatch shenanigans.

After reports of key departures from the studio, another report has surfaced, claiming that the long-rumored multiplayer modes for BioShock Infinite have been axed.

Two key developers on Irrational's delayed Bioshock Infinite have left the company.