Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 248

Contents

Editorial

Login (Letters)

Press Start: The Game That Changes as You Play (How Data Mining is Transforming Games), Time Capsule, The Future of Free-To-Play, 5 Lives with Vincent Grogan (Producer of Traveler’s Tales), The Final Days of the PSP, The Month in Geek, The EGM Hot List (10 Things You Didn’t Know About Duke Nukem Forever).

EGM Interview with Tim Willits (id Software Creative Director)

Cover Story – Club Dead: Dead Island (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

Feature: Missing in Action – Why some games never get released

·         Half-Life (Dreamcast)

·         Heartland (PSP)

·         True Crime: Hong Kong (PS3, Xbox 360, PC. In August 2011 Square Enix bought publishing rights to the game, but not the True Crime name and eventually released it as Sleeping Dogs in August 2012)

·         LMNO (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

·         Thrill Kill (PlayStation, would be re-skinned to create Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style)

·         Six Days in Fallujah (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

·         Shenmue III (Xbox 360, would actually get released on PS4 & PC in November 2019)

·         Star Wars: Battlefront III (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

·         Fallout 3 (PC. Fallout 3 would release on PS3, Xbox 360, & PC in October 2008, but that was completely different game from this game which was being developed by Titus Interactive)

·         Starfox 2 (Super NES, would eventually release with the Super NES Classic in 2017)

Feature: EGM’s Guide to Gaming Schools

Next Wave (Previews) –

·         FIFA 12 (PS3, Xbox 360)

·         Street Fighter X Tekken (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

·         Spider-Man: Edge of Time (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, 3DS)

·         Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

·         The Darkness 2 (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

Launch Point (Upcoming Releases of Note):

·         Hunted: The Demon’s Forge (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

·         Infamous 2 (PS3)

·         Shadows of the Damned (PS3, Xbox 360)

·         Supremacy MMA (PS3, Xbox 360)

·         Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, 3DS)

·         Duke Nukem Forever (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

·         Child of Eden (Xbox 360)

·         Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon (PS3, Xbox 360), Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon: Stealth Force Edition (Wii, 3DS), Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon: Autobots/Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon: Decepticons (DS)

·         Alice: Madness Returns (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

·         Wipeout: In the Zone (Xbox 360)

·         Driver: Renegade (3DS)

·         Dungeon Siege III (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

·         Cubic Ninja (3DS)

·         Cars 2 (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, PC)

·         NCAA Football 12 (PS3, Xbox 360)

·         Resistance 3 (PS3)

·         Captain America: Super Soldier (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, 3DS)

·         Batman: Arkham City (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

Review Crew:

·         Portal 2 (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

·         Mortal Kombat (PS3, Xbox 360)

·         Dead or Alive Dimensions (3DS)

·         Conduit 2 (Wii)

·         SOCOM 4: US Navy SEALs (PS3)

·         Dungeon Defenders (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)

·         The Download – Mobile Game Reviews

Commentary

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