Game Informer Issue 243

Full cover:

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: Now You're Playing With Power (And McNamara discusses how electronic, as a whole, have evolved to have multiple uses and features)
• Feedback (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• The Battle For the Living Room (Extensive feature on the XBOX One and how it plans to incorporate all entertainment into one box, including interview with Phil Spencer, corporate vice president of Microsoft Studios)
• Electronic Arts Signs Exclusive Star Wars Deal (EA receives the exclusive right to make Star Wars games and announces BioWare, DICE and Visceral will be put to work on new games)
• Indie Game: The Movie (A look at the developers features in the movie and where they are now, one years after the movie's debut)
• VR Mission (A look at the new Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and the potential it has to change gaming as we know it)
• Impulse (A look at indie title A.N.N.E., a recent Kickstarter success)
• Top Ten: Developer Cameos
• Gamers (Spotlight on Dennis Fong, who won Jon Carmack's Ferrari and who founded companies Raptr and Gamers.com)
• The Sims 3: Cribs Edition (A look at some of the best creations in The Sims 3)
• The Best Mobile Games of 2013 (So Far): (GI's picks for the top mobile games to come out in 2013, so far)
  • Year Walk (iOS)
  • Ridiculous Fishing (iOS)
  • Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy (iOS)
  • Sorcery! (iOS)
  • Badland (iOS)
  • Star Wars Pinball (iOS, Android)
  • Magicka (iOS, Android)
  • Little Inferno (iOS)
  • Frozen Synapse (iOS, Android)
  • Gemini Rue (iOS)
  • Joe Danger Touch (iOS)
  • Star Commander (iOS)
  • Crabitron (iOS)
  • Slayin (iOS)
  • Cut the Rope: Time Travel (iOS, Android)

  [*]Massive (A look Neverwinter, Cryptic's new MMO based on Dungeons & Dragons) [*]Interview: Quinn Duffy (Interview with one of Relic Entertainments game developers) [*]Classic GI (Top 15 Nintendo DS Games)

Cover Story: Titanfall (One, PC)(Extensive look at the first game from Respawn Entertainment, the developer built by numerous ex-Infinity Ward personnel, including Vince Zampella)

Previews:

• Call of Duty: Ghosts (PS4, PS3, One, 360)
• Fantasia: Music Evolved (One, 360)
• Skylanders: Swap Force (PS4, PS3, One, 360, Wii U, Wii, 3DS)
• Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure (Wii U, 3DS, PC)
• Gran Turismo 6 (PS3)
• Dying Light (PS4, PS3, One, 360, PC)
• Lightening Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (PS3, 360)
• Watch Dogs (PS4, PS3, One, 360, Wii U, PC)
• The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (PS3, 360, PC)
• Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (PS3, 360, PC)
• Plants vs. Zombies 2 (iOS, Android)
• The Evil Within (Next-gen TBA, PS3, 360, PC)
• Wolfenstein: The New Order (Next-gen TBA, PS3, 360, PC)
• Beyond: Two Souls (PS3)
• Need For Speed: Rivals (PS4, PS3, One, 360)
• NCAA Football 14 (PS3, 360)
• NHL 14 (PS3, 360)
• Earth Defense Force 2025 (PS3, 360)
• Tales of Xillia (Ps3)
• Tales of Symphonia Collection (PS3)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Metro: Last Light (PC, PS3, 360)
• Fuse (PS3, 360)
• Remember Me (PS3, 360, PC)
• Grid 2 (PS3, 360)
• Star Trek (PS3, 360)
• Cut the Rope: Time Travel (iOS, Android)

PC Reviews:

• StarDrive
• Eador: Masters of the Broken World

Nintendo 3DS Review:

• Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move

PS Vita Review:

• Soul Sacrifice

The Score (Small, one-paragraph reviews):

• Black Rock Shooter (PSP)
• Poker Night 2 (360)
• Draw Something 2 (iOS)
• Sanctum 2 (360, PC)
• Haunted Hollow (iOS)
• Iron Man 3 (iOS, Android)
• Don't Starve (PC)