I sat across the fire from my longtime companion, Philip the pigman, in complete silence. Philip and I had been through a lot together, hunting down terrifying creatures of the night, felling mighty trees, and scoffing all th...
| Fraser Brown |
Mark of the Ninja is getting some long overdue downloadable content. "We built Mark of the Ninja to be a complete experience, both in terms of its mechanics and its narrative," developer Klei Entertainment stated in their pre...
| Hamza CTZ Aziz |
I've been eyeing Don't Starve for a good while now, being the nearest release from one of my favorite small studios, Klei Entertainment (makers of Shank and Mark of the Ninja), and being so different from what ...
| Conrad Zimmerman |
Mark of the Ninja lead designer Nels Anderson is on a roll. His first time running lead on a project and it scores multiple perfect scores, giving Klei Entertainment a new hit game to play with. The game's success can be lar...
| Jonathan Holmes |
Hey gang! Here's today's Destructoid Show! The embargo is up on last week's Assassin's Creed III coverage, which Hamza wrote up a great preview for, and for which I did a few interviews over on the Rev3games channel. In ...
| Max Scoville |
Last night on Mash Tactics, we had the pleasure of sitting down and chatting with Nels Anderson, Lead Designer of the amazing stealth platformer, Mark of the Ninja. If you just so happened to miss it live, check out the abov...
| Rick KingFoom Olson |
If PAX Prime 2012 had a yearbook, under "Most Popular" would read this week's XBLA release Mark of the Ninja. It's rare that I'm interested in a game so well liked that I have to throw elbows just to check out a demo, but the...
| Holly Green |
I've always had a complicated relationship with stealth games. On the one hand, I love sneaking around and plotting out how I'm going to take out every enemy in a given room. On the other, I get frustrated easily when a game ...
| Casey Baker |
Ninjas may be one of the most popular character tropes in videogames after zombies and robots, but in all honesty, most of them suck at the one thing they are supposed to be good at. Ryu Hayabusa may strut around like a big o...
| Tony Ponce |
Klei Entertainment just recently launched Shank 2 to Xbox 360, PS3 and PC and they've already announced a new game in a clever manner. Mark of the Ninja is a stealth game which the developer has chosen to reveal wit...
| Conrad Zimmerman |
Shank 2 continues the tale of a man named Shank by providing more killing, more death, and more over-the-top gore that was a staple of the original title. At its core, however, is a side-scrolling brawler reminiscent of old...
| Victoria Medina |
Shank 2 released last week, which I dutifully downloaded immediately, but there's a bit of a time lapse between it and the preceding title. I simply must know what transpired between the time Shank took down Cesar and hi...
| Conrad Zimmerman |
A lot of fantastic games came out this week, but there's yet another one that may have slipped past your radar or you just forgot about. Extremely bloody and violent 2D side-scrolling beat 'em up Shank 2 is this week's downl...
| Brett Zeidler |
Having practically forgotten that a sequel to Shank was being made, news of the follow-up's looming arrival is a pleasant surprise. Shank 2 will first be hitting PlayStation Network and PC in North America on February 7, foll...
| Jordan Devore |
At E3 2010, the very best meeting I took the entire trip was with the folks at Klei Entertainment. They were a small dev team with a dream who had invested everything they had into a little game about a man on a quest for rev...
| Conrad Zimmerman |
Last year's Shank was a gleeful journey of violence and bad-ass-itude, wrapped in wonderful, hand-drawn animation. Realizing that gamers really liked stabbing baddies in the gut, developer Klei Entertainment is gracing us wi...
| Bob Muir |