Game Informer Issue 248

Full cover:

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: We Have Lift Off (Andy McNamara discusses how the next-gen has taken off with systems now widely available and the coming console war)
• Feedback (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• The Wii U Survival Guide (Matthew Kato discusses ways that Nintendo can keep the Wii U relevant in the fact of competition from the PS4 and XBOX One)
• Constant Companions (A look at print strategy guides and their role in a world where the internet is prevalent)
• Top Ten: Launch Games
• Test Driving The Oculus Rift (A round-up of a number of demons available online for the virtual reality headset)
• Current-Generation Cult Classics (An overview of the games from the PS3/360 generation that had become cult hits)
• Valve's Newest Steam Evolution (Reactions from developers about Valve's SteamOS, Steam Box and the unique controller)
• Impulse (A look at Ubisoft's RPG Child of Light and WWI side-scroller Valiant Hearts: The Great War)
• Massive (A look at the completely reworked Final Fantasy XIV)
• Gamer (Interview with Korean League of Legends team SK Telecom T1)
• Interview: Goichi "Suda51" Suda (Interview with the famous Suda 51, known for his unique games such as Killer 7 and No More Heroes)
• Classic GI (Unusual stories from Nintendo's warehouse)

Cover Story: Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (PS4, PS3, XBOX One, 360, PC)(Extensive preview of Monolith's new action title set in Tolkien's Middle-Earth between the evens of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings)

Previews:

• BioShock Infinite: Burial At Sea Episode 1 (PS3, 360, PC)
• Killzone: Shadow Fall (PS4)
• Thief (PS4, PS3, XBOX One, 360, PC)
• Tales of Xillia 2 (PS3)
• Drakengard 3 (PS3)
• Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus (PS3)
• Fable Anniversary (360)
• Assassin's Creed Liberation HD (PS3, 360, PC)
• The Long Dark (PC, Mac, Linux)
• Tropico 5 (360, PC, Mac, Linux)
• Dungeon Defenders 2 (PC, Mac, Linux)
• Godus (PC, Mac, iOS, Android)
• Routine (PC)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (PS4, Wii U, PS3, 360)
• Batman: Arkham Origins (PS3, 360)
• Call of Duty: Ghosts (XBOX One, PS4, PS3, 360)
• Battlefield 4 (PS3, 360, PC)
• LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (PS3, 360)
• Skylanders: Swap Force (Wii U, PS3, 360)
• WWE 2K14 (PS3, 360)
• NBA 2K14 (PS3, 360)
• The Wolf Among Us: Episode 1 - Faith (PS3, 360, PC)

PC Reviews:

• XCOM: Enemy Within
• The Stanley Parable

Nintendo 3DS Reviews:

• The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
• Pokemon X & Y
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies

iOS Review:

• Device 6

The Score (Small, one-paragraph reviews):

• Wii U Party (Wii U)
• Star Wars Pinball: Balance of the Force (PS3, 360)
• Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl (3DS)
• Rune Factory 4 (3DS)
• F1 2013 (PS3, 360)
• Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate (Vita)
• Sonic Lost World (Wii U)