Game Informer Issue 213

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Features:

 

• Letter From the Editor: A New Year, A New Challenge (Andy McNamara discuss the various challenges facing developers in the upcoming year)
• Feedback (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• And The Band Played On (Announcement that Rock Band developer Harmonix to be sold off)
• Persian Market (A look at how Iran rates games released in the country)
• Afterwords: Civilization V (Questions answered by lead designer Jon Schafer)
• Analyzing Our Industry Weathermen (Interview with industry analysts Jesse Divnich and Michael Pachter)
• Impulse (A look at downloadable titles Skulls of the Shogun, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, Explodemon and Microbots)
• Cult Leaders (A look at some of the cult classics from the past two generations)
• Top Ten: Outspoken Developers
• Gamer (Interview with the pair behind the fan game Sonic Fan Remix)
• A Legal Matter (A look, from a legal perspective, on the current court case against California’s attempts to restrict the sale of violent games to minors)
• PlayStation’s New Portables (A look at the two new handhelds from Sony: the PSP 2 and the PlayStation Phone)
• Kinect Fitness Test (Overview on the various fitness games available for the Kinect)
• Massive (A look at child-friendly MMO LEGO universe)
• Interview: Alan Pritchard (Interview with the executive vice president of sale & marketing at Sega of America)
• Classic GI (Overview on the Elder Scrolls series)

Cover Story: Tomb Raider (PS3, 360, PC)(Having rescued the Tomb Raider franchise after the failed The Angel of Darkness, Crystal Dynamics now heads way back to tell the story of how Lara Croft became the relic-hunting heroine gamers know her as)

Red Faction: Armageddon (PS3, 360)(With the previous game, Guerilla, gaining the Red Faction series a level of popularity not before experienced, Volition goes to work on the follow-up, which hopes to give the series a much stronger story than in previous entries)

Previews:

• Dead Space 2 (PS3, 360)
• Operation Flashpoint: Red Riser (PS3, 360, PC)
• Stacking (PS3, 360)
• Dead Rising 2: Case West (360)
• The Cursed Crusade (PS3, 360, PC)
• Killzone 3 (PS3)
• Bulletstorm (PS3, 360, PC)
• Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (PSP)
• Monster Tale (DS)
• No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise (PS3)
• Fight Night Champion (PS3, 360)
• De Blob 2 (PS3, 360, Wii, DS)
• L.A. Noire (PS3, 360)
• Twisted Metal (PS3)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Pac-Man Championship Edition DX (PS3, 360)
• Nail’d (PS3, 360)
• Tron: Evolution (PS3, 360)
• Marvel Pinball (PS3, 360)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (PS3, 360)
• Create (PS3, 360, Wii, PC, Mac)
• Blood Drive (PS3, 360)
• Bejeweled 3 (PC, Mac)

XBOX 360 Reviews:

• Kinectimals
• Kinect Sports
• Kinect Adventures
• Joy Ride
• Ilomilo
• A World Of Keflings

Wii Reviews:

• Sonic Colors
• Epic Mickey
• Tron: Evolution Battle Grids
• Ghost Recon
• Michael Jackson The Experience

PSP Review:

• Ys: The Oath in Felghana

Nintendo DS Review:

• Sonic Colors

The Score (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• Pinball FX 2 (360)
• Time Crisis: Razing Storm (PS3)
• Babysitting Mama (Wii)
• DanceMasters (360)
• The Fight: Lights Out (PS3)
• Divinity II: Flames of Vengeance (PC)
• Flip’s Twisted World (Wii)
• The Shoot (PS3)