Game Informer Issue 255

Full cover:

Features:

• Letter From the Editor: New Beginnings (Andy McNamara discusses the clash between triple-AAA game developers, indie and mobile developers)
• Feedback (Reader Letters, Responses and Artwork)
• Life After Game Over (Article that explores how pro gamers handle retiring from professional gaming circuit)
• Eye of the Beholder (A look at some of the alternate impressions to well-known video game stories)
• Into The Pixel Celebrates the Art of Video Games (Showcase of five pieces to be shown at Into the Pixel’s E3 gallery, includes interview with Mathieu Leduc, the art director on Watch Dogs)
• Better Without Kinect (Article that digs into Microsoft’s recent decision to offer a Kinect-less XBOX One)
• Size Matters (Step-by-step guide on how to replace the hard drive in a PS4)
• Top Ten: Masks
• Halo 5: Guardians Coming To XBOX One in 2015 (Article on the push of Halo 5 to next year and the recently-announced Master Chief Collection for XBOX One)
• Impulse (A look at indie games Massive Chalice, N++, Metrico and Nidhogg)
• Interview: Manveer Heir (Interview with developer from BioWare Montreal)
• Gamer (Spotlight on Jeffrey “Trump” Shih, popular Hearthstone streamer)
• Classic GI (A look at the successful excavation of the legendary Atari ET cache)

Cover Story: Far Cry 4 (PS4, One, PC, PS3, 360)(Having found both critical and commercial success with the last Far Cry, Ubisoft pushes forward with the entry in the series that will take gamers off the tropical island and into the mountains of Nepal and allowing them to bring a buddy along)

Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes (PS4, One, Wii U, PS3, 360, PC)(Having established themselves as a major competitor to Activision and it’s Skylanders series, Disney now plans to tap the expansive universe of Marvel for the next entry in its toy-based series)

No Man’s Sky (TBA)(Making its debut on Spike’s VGA Awards in December of 2013, Hello Games now opens up about it’s boundary-pushing space exploration title that throws players into a nearly-infinite galaxy, open for them to explore)

Previews:

• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (PS4, One, PS3, 360, PC)
• Sunset Overdrive (One)
• The Sims 4 (PC)
• Evolve (PS4, One, PC)
• Batman: Arkham Knight (PS4, One, PC)
• LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham (PS4, One, Wii U, PS3, 360, Vita, 3DS, PC, Mac)
• Hellraid (PS4, One, PC)
• H1Z1 (PS4, PC)
• DriveClub (PS4)
• Battlefield: Hardline (PS4, One, PS3, 360, PC)
• Battlecry (PC)
• Warhammer 40K: Eternal Crusade (PS4, One, PC)
• Tales From the Borderlands (PS3, 360, PC, iOS)
• Dance Central: Spotlight (One)
• FIFA 15 (PS4, One, PC)
• Madden NFL 15 (PS4, One, PS3, 360, PC)
• NHL 15 (PS4, One, PS3, 360)

Multiplatform Reviews:

• Transistor (PS4, PC)
• Watch Dogs (PS4, One, PS3, 360, PC)
• Wolfenstein: The New Order (PS4, One, PS3, 360, PC)
• Bound By Flame (PS4, PS3, 360, PC)
• Super Time Force (One, 360)
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PS4, One, Wii U, PS3, 360, PC)

PlayStation 3 Review:

• Drakengard 3

PC Review:

• Tropico 5

Wii U Review:

• Mario Kart 8

The Score (Short, one paragraph reviews):

• The Walking Dead Season Two – Episode 3: In Harm’s Way (PS3, 360, PC, iOS)
• Republique – Episode 2: Metamorphosis (iOS)
• War of the Vikings (PC)
• Hitman Go (iOS)
• Borderlands 2 (Vita)
• NES Remix 2 (Wii U)
• Ultra Street Fighter IV (PS3, 360)
• The Wolf Among Us: Episode 4 – In Sheep’s Clothing (PS3, 360, PC, iOS)