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Game Informer visited Microsoft's campus weeks ago for an early look at the next Xbox console. The day after the company explained the Xbox One, we had some follow-up questions for the console's chief product officer Marc Whitten. Game Informer's senior features editor Matt Helgeson sat down... More

This is it. Super Replay Showdown 2013 wraps up with the battle below. It was a long and grueling adventure, but the finals come down to Ben Reeves fighting for Grim Fandango versus Jeff Marchiafava and Ninja Gaiden for the NES. Watch the video below to see who takes the crown and determines the next... More

The latest Thief game from Eidos-Montreal has been in development for a long time. While the development team was hard at work designing and redesigning the systems , a small forge in Montreal was given the task of building the protagonist's bow for both marketing and research. In the spring of 2010... More

Every year we hold a series of multiplayer matches chosen by video producer Ben Hanson. The last person standing wins the honor of choosing the next Super Replay game that we play through in its entirety. We've had some exciting matches this year, but this episode marks the most tense duel yet. Watch... More

Eidos-Montreal is no stranger to fan expectations. In 2011, it released Deus Ex: Human Revolution, a prequel to one of the greatest games of all time . Now a separate team within the studio is working on a reinvention of Thief, the classic stealth game from Looking Glass. While many fans are excited... More

Every year we hold a series of multiplayer matches chosen by video producer Ben Hanson, the last person standing wins the honor of choosing the next Super Replay game that we play through in its entirety. In case you missed it during last week's Replay , the annual Super Replay Showdown competition... More

Back in 2009 the general manager for Eidos-Montreal announced that the studio was creating the next entry in the long-dormant Thief series. Then the studio was silent. Rumors of cancellation and leaked videos kept fans on pins and needles for the next four years. Our cover story announcing the Thief... More

Redesigning a classic character is an incredibly difficult challenge. Stay too close to the original and the design seems antiquated and maybe even boring, while straying too far will alienate your most passionate fan-base . Thief's game director Nicolas Cantin was heavily involved in the redesign... More

Every year we hold a series of multiplayer matches chosen by video producer Ben Hanson, the last person standing wins the honor of choosing the next Super Replay game that we play through in its entirety. In case you missed it during last week's Replay , the annual Super Replay Showdown competition... More

In the middle of what looks like a construction zone, the team behind Thief is using a brand new motion-capture studio from a company called Game On in Montreal to capture both the game's animations and voice work. Both Game On and Square Enix were kind enough to let us bring in our cameras and film... More

When rebooting a franchise, the developers can't help but look outside the original games for inspiration. While the team at Eidos Montreal is confident that they understand why the older Thief games are held in such high regard and are bringing those elements to the new game, the long production... More

Every month we travel to a development studio for our magazine's cover story. This month we had the honor of visiting Eidos Montreal to get a look at the development of their reboot of the much-beloved Thief franchise. Throughout the next month we will be updating our content hub ( that can be found... More

Last year will go down as one of the better years in video games, with titles like Halo 4, Far Cry 3, and The Walking Dead coming out among many others. But before we turn the page on 2012, here's a look at the games that readers voted as their favorites of the year. Our Reader Games of the Year... More

With premier titles like Halo 4 and Borderlands 2 garnering headlines and the revenue juggernaut Call of Duty dominating the sales charts once again, the shooter genre turned in an impressive 2012. Naysayers view the category as lacking innovation or surprises, but nobody predicted the open-world greatness... More

As we close out this console generation, most sequels are humming comfortably along by making minor adjustments to their base gameplay. Not sports games. While some of the best performing games got by with minor improvements, both Madden and NHL made wholesale changes to their franchise modes to varying... More

Many of the Game Informer staffers share similar passions to our readers outside of video games – whether that be films, television shows, books, comics, tabletop games, or watching clips of creepy people on YouTube. To round out our end of year coverage we decided it would be nice to share our... More

Since the last edition of Overheard in May, the Game Informer staff has had a lot to say. Every time somebody said something that was a little off, amusing, or punny I popped open a text file and jotted it down. Some of these quotes may be confusing when taken out of their original context, but I hope... More

In the latest issue of Game Informer ( that you can read digitally here ) senior associate editor Jeff Cork wrote a massive feature on the upcoming release of Far Cry 3 from Ubisoft. As a newcomer to the series, all that associate editor Tim Turi knew was that Jeff was incredibly excited for the game's... More

Last Monday we posted a video of Game Informer's Jeff Cork and Tim Turi discussing the merits of Kinect FMVs and XCOM: Enemy Unknown , there was an overwhelmingly positive response in the comments so we wanted to keep the trend going. Jeff Cork recruited associate editor Dan Ryckert to talk about... More

You might be familiar with our weekly feature called Weekend Warrior where we detail the games that we expect to play during the upcoming weekend. Well, things don't always go as planned. While shooting another video for the upcoming digital issue of Game Informer, associate editor Tim Turi and senior... More