Game Informer Issue 216

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Features:

 

• Letter From the Editor: Attending My Own Funeral (Andy McNamara discusses the spread of video games into the mobile space and into places like Facebook)
• Feedback (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• Scientific Inquiries (Article that looks at various studies conducted on video games and their effect on players)
• Afterwords: Dead Space 2 (Questions answered by executive director Steve Papoutsis)
• Booed Off the Stage (Activision announces the cancellation of Guitar Hero)
• The PlayStation Phone Becomes A Reality (A look at the newly-announced Xperia Play, a smart phone produced by Sony Ericsson)
• Top Ten: Fighting Games We’d Like to Forget
• Impulse (A look at downloadable titles Hybrid and From Dust)
• Telltale’s Story-Driven Strategy Pays Off (Overview on the current roster of titles coming from Telltale)
• Game Infacer (GI’s annual satire section, with fake news and reviews)
• Interview: Tim Pivnicny (Interview with the VP of sales and marketing for Atlus)
• Classic GI (Spotlight on Nihon Falcom Corporation)

Cover Story: Saints Row: The Third (PS3, 360, PC)(Extensive look at the third entry in Volitions successful Saint Row series, in which the 3rd Street Saints leave their home turf for the city of Steelport)

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (PS3, 360, PC)(A look at the rpg game being developed by Big Huge Games in connection with 38 Games, the developer studio founded by baseball athlete Curt Schillings)

Previews:

• L.A. Noire (PS3, 360)
• Rage (PS3, 360, PC, Mac)
• Duke Nukem Forever (PS3, 360, PC)
• Infamous 2 (PS3)
• The Last Guardian (PS3)
• Anarchy Reigns (PS3, 360)
• The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (PC)
• El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (PS3, 360)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (PS3, 360)
• Dead Island (PS3, 360, PC)
• Resistance 3 (PS3)
• Final Fantasy Versus XIII (PS3)
• SSX Deadly Descents (PS3, 360)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Bulletstorm (PS3, 360, PC)
• Dragon Age II (PS3, 360)
• Knights Contract (PS3, 360)
• Fight Night Champion (PS3, 360)
• De Blob 2 (PS3, 360, Wii)

XBOX 360 Review:

• Yoostar 2

PlayStation 3 Reviews:

• MLB 11: The Show
• Killzone 3

PC Reviews:

• Total War: Shogun 2
• Magicka

Nintendo 3DS Review:

• Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition

PSP Review:

• Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy

Nintendo DS Review:

• Monster Tale

The Score (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• Tales from Space: About a Blob (PS3)
• Dungeons (PC)
• Beyond Good & Evil HD (360)
• Swarm (PS3, 360)
• Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 (PS3, 360)
• Yar’s Revenge (PS3, 360, PC)