Andy Trimlett

The MMO City of Heroes grew out of comic books and now they're going back in them! & Bring a printout of your City of Heroes character to the NCsoft booth, and comic artist Dave Hamann will draw your character for you. & Best part: it's free!!!

So yes, the chainsaw bayonet is back. & "Of course the chainsaw is back," says Cliff. & "That's our lightsaber." & One new tool in your gore creation kit is the Mulcher, which sounds a lot like the Heavy's gun from

City of Heroes Draws Your Character

Cliff Bleszinski on Gears of War 2

For a long time, cut scenes were the principal way to advance the plot in a video game. & For some reason, game creators more or less took you out of the game and into a movie when they wanted to tell you what was going on. & Bioshock wasn't the first to use "discoverables" to tell the story -- an old letter, and audio recording, a newspaper -- but they certainly showed us all how much more powerful (and fun to play) a story could be when most of the story is advanced in the game itself. & And Bioshock inspired Cliff for the sequel to

Cliff Bleszinski on Making a Classic Game