I’d just dropped the kids off at school when one of the fathers asked me what games I was playing. He’s no gamer but I thought he might at least gel with the concept of Blood Dragon: a sci-fi ...

Far Cry 3's intelligent and elegant open-world structure balances exciting action with the joys of free-form adventuring, making it one of the best shooters of the year.

I think it's safe to say that Far Cry 3's competitive multiplayer modes--while fun--aren't going to pull dedicated fans away from Halo 4 or Black Ops 2 and the like.

Character progression in Blood Dragon is a simplified version of Far Cry 3’s experience system. There are no crafting components and no skill trees, though you can still purchase weapon ...

And Far Cry 3 lives up to that promise. On the surface, it’s a game about a 25-year-old Caucasian male – from Hollywood, Los Angeles – taking a once-in-a-lifetime trip to a whole new world ...

We've actually played Far Cry 3! Though Ubisoft still won't let us sample a wider slice of the game, we're learning more and more about the shooter.

Jordan Garland looks at Far Cry 3's narrative arc, the nature of a linear plot in an open world full of possibility and how binary choice ultimately doesn't work in the game.

Far Cry 3 looks fantastic on PC---I played using both an AMD Radeon 6870 and a newer GeForce GTX 660Ti. Particularly on the GTX, with Directx11 enabled, this one's a real stunner.