Game Informer Issue 199

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: Evolution (Andy McNamara discusses the changes made to the magazine)
• Feedback (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• Tokyo Game Show 2009 (GI’s overview on the news and announcements from this years’ TGS)
• In the Hot Seat (Interviews with Peter Dille, senior vice president of marketing and PlayStation Newtwork, Shane Kim, corporate vice president at Microsoft and Cammie Dunaway, executive vice president at Nintendo)
• The Marvel & Disney Team-Up (Article on the new that Disney purchased Marvel)
• Hollywood & Video Games (Feature that looks at the efforts being made to rectify the trends of video game movies being terrible)
• Top Ten: Worst Hairstyles
• Impulse (A look at downloadable titles Gyromancer, Night Sky, and The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom)
• The Lore Masters (Article that looks at the people responsible for keeping a game’s lore and story consistent and accurate)
• Afterwords: Madden NFL 10 (Questions answered by director Jim Cummings)
• Massive (A look at new super hero MMO Champions Online)
• Gaming Invades Facebook (A look at the current surge in games on the social media website)
• All Ages (A look at some of the family-friendly games that are great for players of all ages)
• Gaming Becomes Paramount (Interview with John Kavanagh, senior vice president or video games for Paramount Digital Entertinament)
• Interview: Ron Gilbert (Interview with one of the developers on indie game DeathSpank)
• Classic GI (History of Mickey Mouse in video games)

Cover Story: Epic Mickey (Wii)(A look at the new game from Warren Spector and his team at Junction Point that will dig deep into the past of Disney in order to bring together the world-famous Mickey Mouse with his obscure black-and-white predecessor, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit)

Skate 3 (PS3, 360)(Having usurped the position of top skating game from rival Tony Hawk, Skate 3 now aims to bring gamers together by advancing their multiplayer and focusing on teamwork)

Previews:

• Left 4 Dead 2 (360, PC)
• Diablo III (PC)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3, 360, PC)
• Final Fantasy XIV (PS3, PC)
• Heavy Rain (PS3)
• Bayonetta (PS3, 360)
• Lost Planet 2 (PS3, 360, PC)
• Tony Hawk: Ride (PS3, 360, Wii)
• Avatar (PS3, 360, Wii, PC)
• StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (PC)
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare – Reflex (Wii)
• Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (PSP)
• Okamiden: Chisaki Taiyo (DS)
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PS3, 360, PC)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Brutal Legend (PS3, 360)
• WWE SmackDown vs. RAW 2010 (PS3, 360)
• NBA 2K10 (PS3, 360)
• NBA Live 10 (PS3, 360)
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance (PS3, 360, Wii)
• FIFA 10 (PS3, 360)
• Saw (PS3, 360, PC)

PlayStation 3 Reviews:

• Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
• Katamari Forever
• Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2

XBOX 360 Reviews:

• Halo 3: ODST
• Forza Motorsports 3
• Magnacarta 2

Wii Reviews:

• A Boy and His Blob
• Spore Hero
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up
• Ju-On: The Grudge

PC Reviews:

• Dragon Age: Origins
• Tropico 3

PSP Reviews:

• Gran Turismo
• MotorStorm Arctic Edge

Nintendo DS Reviews:

• Nostalgia
• Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes

The Score (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• Space Invaders Extreme 2 (DS)
• Majesty 2 (PC)
• Spyborgs (Wii)
• Mini Ninjas (PS3, 360, Wii)
• Order of War (PC)