Game Informer Issue 230

Full cover:

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: A Fair Exchange? (Andy McNamara discusses the future of video game prices)
• Feedback (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• The Ongoing Evolution of the ESA (Overview on the current state of the Entertainment Software Association)
• The Genre That Refuses to Die: Keeping Adventure Games Alive (Article on the efforts to keep the adventure genre alive)
• The Art of Play (Interview with Chris Melissinos, guest curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum)
• Treasure Hunting (Feature that looks at the ways that developers and publisher get more money from their customers)
• Checking the Trends (A look at how genres have fared this generation compared to last generation)
• The Secret Lives of Game Developers (Interview with Scott Rudin, producer on Indie Game: The Movie)
• Top Ten: Space Marines
• Mobile Gaming State of the Union (Overview on the state of various mobile platforms)
• James Gunn Talks Lollipop Chainsaw (Interview with James Gunn about his collaboration with Suda 51 and Warner Bros. Interactive)
• Shoot to Thrill (Overview on some new free-to-play PC shooters)
• Get Your Family Off The Couch (A look at some of the best family-friendly games available for the Kinect)
• Massive (A look at the beta for World of Warcraft’s new expansion, Mists of Pandaria)
• Impulse (A look at indie titles Skulls of the Shogun, Dyad and On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3)
• Interview: Jack Buser (Interview with the new senior director of PlayStation digital platforms)
• Classic GI (A look at games with the same name, but that are vastly different from one another)

Cover Story: The Elder Scrolls Online (PC)(Known for their massive open-world role-playing games, Bethesda now aims to take the online world by storm with their new MMO set in the world of Tamriel many, many years before the events of recent titles Oblivion and Skyrim)

The Amazing Spider-Man (PS3, 360)(In connection with the new movie, Activision and Beenox prepare their tie-in game to coincide with the movie’s release)

Previews:

• LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (PS3, 360, Wii, Vita, 3DS, DS, PC)
• Borderlands 2 (PS3, 360, PC)
• Devil May Cry (PS3, 360)
• BioShock Infinite (PS3, 360, PC)
• Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (PS3, 360, PC)
• Lost Planet 3 (PS3, 360, PC)
• Far Cry 3 (PS3, 360, PC)
• LittleBigPlanet Karting (PS3)
• Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (PS3)
• Dirt Showdown (PS3, 360, PC)
• Madden NFL 13 (PS3, 360)
• NCAA Football 13 (PS3, 360)
• Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (3DS)
• Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion (3DS)
• Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (PS3)
• Crysis 3 (PS3, 360, PC)
• Resident Evil 6 (PS3, 360, PC)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Dragon’s Dogma (PS3, 360)
• Prototype 2 (PS3, 360)

XBOX 360 Reviews:

• Fez
• Kinect Star Wars
• Trials Evolution

PC Review:

• Legend of Grimrock

PlayStation Vita Review:

• Mortal Kombat

The Score (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• UEFA Euro 2012 (PS3, 360, PC)
• Sine Mora (360)
• Fibble – Flick ‘n’ Roll (iOS)
• World Gone Sour (PS3, 360)
• Birds of Steel (PS3, 360)
• Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir (3DS)
• Skullgirls (PS3, 360)