Game Informer Issue 247

Full cover:

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: We Love the Unknown (Andy McNamara discusses the magazine's continued commitment to provide coverage on not only the blockbuster games everyone knows about, but also brand new titles with the potential to become big)
• Feedback (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• Full Steam Ahead Into the Living Room (Article that discusses Valve's announcement of it's Steam-based home console)
• Tokyo Game Show 2013: A Country in Flux (Coverage of the 2013 Tokyo Game Show, which was sadly lacking in announcements and news)
• Decision 2013 (Overview of the upcoming next-gen showdown between Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's XBOX One)
• Top Ten: Female Villains
• Gamer (Interview with Peter "Combofiend" Rosas, former competitive Street Fighter player who now works for Capcom)
• How Not To Become a Game Developer (Article that explores the perils of breaking into the industry and advice on how to avoid them)
• Impulse (A quick look at some of the most impressive indy games to be released on the PlayStation 4: Helldivers, Rime, Hohokum, Resogun and 1001 Spikes)
• Taming the Tongue (Article that takes a look at the independent game Bot Colony, which strives to allow gamers to more realistically converse with characters in the game)
• Interview: Keiji Inafune (Interview with the creator of Mega Man, who is now working on a spiritual successor in the form of Mighty No. 9)
• Classic GI (A look at some of the games advertised on console boxes that never saw the light of day)

Cover Story: The Order: 1886 (PS4)(An in-depth look at the new PS4-exclusive third-person shooter from Ready of Dawn, known for the PSP games Daxter and God of War: Chains of Olympus)

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (PS3, PS4, XBOX One, 360, Wii U, PC)(Hands-on preview of Ubisoft's new pirate-focused addition to the Assassin's Creed series)

Previews:

• Batman: Arkham Origins (PS3, 360, Wii U, PC)
• Forza Motorsport 5 (XBOX One)
• Dark Souls II (PS3, 360, PC)
• Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes (PS4, PS3, XBOX One, 360, PC)
• The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (PC)
• Deep Down (PS4)
• The Crew (PS4, XBOX One, PC)
• LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (PS4, PS3, XBOX One, 360, Wii U, PC)
• Strider (PS4, PS3, XBOX One, 360, PC)
• D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die (XBOX One)
• Knack (PS4)
• Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call (3DS)
• Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (Vita)
• Crimson Dragon (XBOX One)
• Killer Instinct (XBOX One)
• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (PC)
• Might & Magic X - Legacy (PC)
• Diablo III: Reaper of Souls (PC, Mac)
• NBA Live 14 (PS4, XBOX One)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3, 360)
• FIFA 14 (PS3, 360)
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 (PS3, 360)
• Angry Birds Star Wars II (iOS, Android)

Wii U Reviews:

• Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure
• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD

PlayStation 3 Reviews:

• Beyond: Two Souls
• Puppeteer
• Rain
• Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness

PC Reviews:

• Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
• Total War: Rome II
• Card Hunter
• Outlast

iOS Review:

• Infinity Blade III

PlayStation Vita Review:

• Killzone: Mercenary

The Score (Small, one-paragraph reviews):

• TMNT: Out of the Shadows (360)
• Divekick (PS3, Vita, PC)
• Flashback (360)