Game Informer Issue 254

Full cover:

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: Where Are The Games? (Andy McNamara laments the lack of software for the new consoles)
• Feedback (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• Space Race (Feature that looks at three upcoming space-combat simulation games: Star Citizen, Elite: Dangerous and EVE: Valkyrie)
• Creating Controllers For All Disabilities (Article on charity organization Special Effect that builds and customizes controllers for a wide-range of disabilities)
• The Voice Of A generation (Interview with Troy Baker, voice actor in games such as The Last of Us, BioShock Infinite and Saints Row IV)
• Digital Card Game Roundup (Overview of the various digital card games available for computers and mobile devices)
• Demon Slayers (Article that looks at a number of games that tackle real-world issues such as suicide, cancer and alcoholism)
• Console Wars (Interview with Blake J. Harris, author of Console Wars, that divulges into the Sega/Nintendo console war)
• Dreaming Of Video Games (Article on new research that looks at how video games affect a person’s sleep)
• Warping Reality (Interview with Hunter Smith, co-founder of Waterloo Labs that use complicated mechanical systems to recreate video games in the real world)
• Top Ten: Shooter Campaign Levels
• Impulse (A look at downloadable titles Broforce, Nuclear Throne and Dungeons of the Endless)
• Massive (Overview on Bethesda’s new MMO, The Elder Scrolls Online)
• Interview: Hector “Optic H3CZ” Rodriguez (Interview with the owner of OpTic Gaming)
• Classic GI (History of Rogue)

Cover Story: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (PS4, One, PC)(After years of being tossed between Infinity Ward and Treyarch, Call of Duty now rests in the hands of Sledgehammer Games, which plans to push the series into the world of mechs and antigravity)

Skylanders: Trap Team (PS4, One, Wii U, PS2, 360, Wii, 3DS)(Having found resounding success with their figure-based SKylanders series, developer Toys for Bob seeks to innovate in order to compete with their new rival, Disney)

Previews:

• Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (PS3, 360, PC)
• Destiny (PS4, One, PS3, 360)
• Lords of the Fallen (PS4, One, PC)
• The Evil Within (PS4, One, PS3, 360, PC)
• EA Sports UFC (PS4, One)
• Evolve (PS4, One, PC)
• Dragon Age: Inquisition (PS4, One, PS3, 360, PC)
• Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth (PC)
• Orcs Must Die Unchained (PC)
• This War of Mine (PC)
• Below (One, PC)
• Darkest Dungeon (PC)
• Valiant Hearts: The Great War (PS4, One, PS3, 360, PC)
• Invisible, Inc. (PC, Mac, Linux)
• Nosgoth (PC)
• Defense Grid 2 (PS4, One, PC)
• Hack ‘N’ Slash (PC)
• Soma (PS4, PC)
• Lichdom: Battlemage (PC)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• LEGO The Hobbit (PS4, One, PS3, 360)
• Child of Light (PS4, One, Wii U, PS3, 360, PC)
• Daylight (PS4, PC)
• Trials Fusion (PS4, One, 360, PC)
• 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil (PS3, 360)
• Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars (Vita, 3DS)

PlayStation 3 Review:

• MLB 14: The Show

PC Reviews:

• Age of Wonders III
• Moebius: Empire Rising
• Goat Simulator

XBOX One Review:

• Kinect Sports Rivals

iOS Review:

• Monument Valley

Nintendo 3DS Reviews:

• Kirby: Triple Deluxe
• Mario Gold: World Tour
• Pokemon Battle Trozei

The Score (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• Boom Beach (iOS)
• R.B.I. Baseball 14 (PS3, 360)
• Trials Frontier (iOS)
• The Wolf Among Us: Episode 3 – A Crooked Mile (PS3, 360, PC)
• Titanfall (360)
• FTL (iOS)