Game Informer Issue 250

Full cover:

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: The Top 50 (Andy McNamara discusses their annual Top 50 Games feature)
• Feedback (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• Fall of the Empire (Andrew Reiner discusses the recent struggles and the sad demise of Lucasarts)
• Afterwords (Interviews with developers of The Legend of Zelda: A Link between Worlds, Super Mario 3D World, and Pokemon X & Y)
• Impulse (A look at upcoming indie games No Man's Sky and Spacebase DF-9)
• The State of the MMO (Matt Miller gives reports on the state of currently-running MMOs, including World of Warcraft, Star Wars: The Old Republic and Rift)
• Interview: Michael Pachter (Interview with stock analyst Michael Pachter about the state of the industry)
• Classic GI (Top 25 Wii Games)

Cover Story: Evolve (PS4, XBOX One, PC)(The studio behind the Left 4 Dead series, Turtle Rock Studios, announces their new squad-based first-person shooter)

Top 50 Games of 2013: (Game Informer lists their top 50 games from the past year, including their pics for awards such as Game of the Year, Best FPS, Best PC Exclusive, Etc.)

• Best Shooter: BioShock Infinite
• Best Fighting: Injustice: Gods Among Us
• Best Puzzle: The Swapper
• Best PC Exclusive: Dota 2
• Best Competitive Multiplayer: Dota 2
• Best Strategy: Dota 2
• Best Simulation: Papers, Please
• Best MMO: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
• Best Sports: FIFA 14
• Best Role-Playing: Pokemon X & Y
• Best Mobile Exclusive: Device 6
• Best Racing: Need For Speed: Rivals
• Best Adventure: The Stanley Parable
• Best Wii U Exclusive: Super Mario 3D World
• Best Cooperative Multiplayer: Super Mario 3D World
• Best Platforming: Super Mario 3D World
• Best Vita Exclusive: Teraway
• Best PS4 Exclusive: Resogun
• Best 3DS Exclusive: The Legend of Zelda: A Ling Between Worlds
• Best XBOX One Exclusive: Dead Rising 3
• Best Action: The Last of Us
• Best Ps3 Exclusive: The Last of Us
• Game of the Year: The Last of Us

Previews:

• Alien: Isolation (PS4, XBOX One, PS3, 360, PC)
• Lightening Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (PS3, 360)
• The Division (PS4, XBOX One, PC)
• Mighty No. 9 (Ps4, XBOX One, Wii U, PS3, 360, Vita, 3DS, PC)
• UFC (PS4, XBOX One)
• NASCAR '14 (PS3, 360)
• LEGO The Hobbit (PS4, XBOX One, Wii U, PS3, 360, PC)
• The Banner Saga (PC)
• Wasteland 2 (PC)
• Infinite Crisis (PC)
• Max: The Curse of Brotherhood (XBOX One, 360, PC)
• Diablo III: Reaper of Souls (PS4, PC)
• Earth Defense Force 2025 (PS3, 360)

Multiplatform Review:

• The Walking Dead: Season Two - Episode 1: All That Remains (PS3, 360, PC)

PlayStation 3 Review:

• Gran Turismo 6

PC review:

• SteamWorld Dig

Vita Review:

• Ys: Memories of Celceta

The Score (Small, one-paragraph reviews):

• The Novelist (PC)
• Tiny Brains (PS4)
• Fighter Within (XBOX One)
• Doki-Doki Universe (PS4)
• The Room Two (iOS)
• Peggle 2 (XBOX One)
• Icycle: On Thin Ice (iOS)