While the two stage demos were heavy on action and dramatic flair, the 10 minutes leading up to those parts focused more on the game’s atmospheric and cerebral side. Early on, Isaac starts in the bottom of a big, silo-like...

We recently had a chance to play a new demo of Mafia II–an open-world action game set against the backdrop of organized crime families vying for power in the 1950s. At the beginning of the demo, we saw Vito Scaletta–the...

The gameplay mechanics for Rising were made known initially at E3 2010, and are based around a concept known as “zan-datsu”, literally “cut and take.” Matsumaya and Kimura explained in Konami’s press conference that the “take” part revolves around Raiden...