Red Faction: Battlegrounds

Red Faction still has the best destruction in games ever.

Gamescom Opening Night Live is always full of surprises, and this year, indie developer Octopus Panic made a splash with a first look at its new action-builder game Gravhounds. As seen in the reveal trailer below, Gravhounds takes place in a future where interstellar exploration and colonization have become the domain of man's best friend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7K6kahO2Ak Although the trailer states that the titular Gravhounds have been "bred" for this life, their humanoid appearance suggests more than a little genetic engineering was responsible for this turn of events. In fact, th

Moana is gorgeous to look at, but it's too faithful to the animated original's storyline (and even camera moves) to offer anything new to the tale. Catherine Laga'aia makes a great bright-eyed protagonist, but Dwayne Johnson can't nail the swaggering demigod Maui's charisma in live-action.

Square Enix release a new trailer for Final Fantasy 7 Revelation at Gamescom Opening Night Live

With projects like Donkey Kong 64 Recompiled, human programmers stake a claim on the art and science of retro game recompilation.