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Best Trailer of the Day: Binary Domain’s “Bigger Than You Think”

From the creators of the Yakuza series, we’re given a peek into the sordid future of 2080. Humanity has battled devastating climate changes by advancing technology beyond all precedents. Regulations were set in place to keep such technological growth in check with one rule held in sacred: machines can never fully resemble human...

Unused House of the Dead: Overkill artwork.

Favorite tagline: “Damn she’d be fine looking if she weren’t a mutant.”

I know every single American gamer in the country – without exception – is whiling the days away until Yakuza of the Dead (aka Yakuza: Dead Souls) finally comes out, but give a gander to Binary Domain (Feb. 28th), a squad-based shooter set in the 2080’s that looks to be ripped right out of an Asimov novel.

Yakuza Studios hopes to somehow find more international success with Binary.  I really don’t know how a third-person shooter where you blow away robots would translate better than the interpersonal relationships between Japanese mobsters, but I guess that’s why I’m not a game developer.

As per Kurt Kobain’s will, zombie clones of himself were set loose upon our world, spreading chaos and flannel wherever blood was to be spilled.

Colonial Marines seems to be shaping up in all the right ways.  It’s hard to believe Sega supported the project without wanting to slap the Predator license all over it (xenomorphs haven’t appeared on film without the Predator since 1997).

The rabid fanboy that grew up watching and rewatching Jimmy Cameron’s 1986 classic really wants developer Gearbox to knock this one out of the park.  They’ve tried to instill in fans that they are very much enamored with this film saga, Cameron’s Aliens in particular, and Colonial Marines definitely has not experienced a rushed development cycle which always counts in a game’s favor (see: Batman: Arkham Asylum, a game made better thanks to coordinated delays).

We’re allowed our doubts though, Gearbox.