God of War Archives

credit//Rockstar Games The New York Video Game Critics Circle are hosting their Video Game Awards later this month, and have put several of this year's hottest titles up for their Game of the Year award. God of War, Monster Hunter: World, Marvel's Spider-Man, and Super Smash Bros Ultimate are all being honored by the New York Critics Circle, though Red[...]

Santa Monica Studio's Game of the Year God of War has inspired yet another piece of art- and no, it isn't cosplay… It's LEGO! Marius Herrmann built an incredible recreation of one of the realms Kratos and Atreus visit, Alefheim, completely out of LEGO bricks It's absolutely beautiful, and we can't get over how great it is. To top[...]

Ultimate God of War Red Dead Redemption 2 Shadow of the Tomb Raider Hitman 2 And the winner is… Marvel's Spider-Man. credit//Insomniac Games Not only is Marvel's Spider-Man a gorgeous open-world action adventure game with a gripping narrative, engaging gameplay, and stunning visuals Not only was Marvel's Spider-Man everything we wanted in an Action Adventure game this year, but it also had the best in-game[...]

Some stories are great because their protagonists are empty spaces for us to fill ourselves into, or because of a strong ensemble cast. No matter how the story gets told, the story is the part of a game that sticks with us. The nominees for Best Story in a Video Game are: Dead Cells Red Dead Redemption 2 Shadow of[...]

Ultimate) Kassandra (Assassin's Creed Odyssey) Atreus (God of War) Jonah Maiava (Shadow of the Tomb Raider) Nero tol Scaeva (Final Fantasy XIV) Cayde-6 (Destiny 2: Forsaken) And the winner is… Kassandra from Assassin's Creed Odyssey. If you played Assassin's Creed Odyssey with Alexios, you missed out on a lot, my friend Most of the time, choosing your protagonist's gender in a massive, open-world RPG like Mass[...]

Before we get to the reveal, here are the nominees for Best Action Adventure Game of 2018: God of War Shadow of the Tomb Raider Marvel's Spider-Man We Happy Few A Way Out And the winner is… Marvel's Spider-Man! credit//Insomniac Games   Our staff was pretty unanimous on this one While Shadow of the Tomb Raider and We Happy Few came in second and third, respectively, Spider-Man[...]

If you're not familiar with Odin Abbott of Odin Makes on YouTube, you might want to check him out, especially if you love God of War Well, that's just the latest video Let's rewind a little Odin has an awesome habit of making fantasy weapons from TV, film, comics, video games, and more all on[...]

If you enjoyed Santa Monica Studio's God Of War game release from this year, you should check out Tina Guo's newest music video. The score for the received Kratos continuation game is by Emmy winning composer Bear McCreary, who has previously worked with Guo on other projects (like the Battlestar Galactica concert!). Perhaps you've seen us mention Guo previously in such[...]

The 2018 Game Award nominations were announced today. With 8 nominations each including Game of the Year, Red Dead Redemption II and God of War appear to be the games to beat, with Marvel's Spider-Man not far behind with 7 nominations. Up against the big studio forerunners is Celeste by Matt Makes Games, the creators behind TowerFall[...]

I liked it a lot for the design. Next, we have an 8×10 inch photo from the game God of War It's the primary art for the game, but thrown onto paper and designed to make it look like this is a painting Which is a little insulting because it's not even on a canvas,[...]

This morning, Penny Arcade formally announced that they have selected a keynote speaker for PAX South, and it will be God Of War director Cory Barlog This will basically entail him delivering the "Storytime" keynote before the event, taking place January 18th-20th at the Henry B Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas[...]

Would you have been as excited for God of War if the game was set in ancient Egypt rather than around Norse mythology? You almost got that version of the game According to a panel at Devcom with game director Cory Barlog, the original concept of the game was set to take place in Egypt and revolve more[...]

Dark Horse has announced that they will publish a comic book set in the world of the God of War video game franchise in November, following the success of their God of War art book Written by Chris Roberson with art by Tony Parker, colors by Dan Jackson, and letters by John Roshell, the book[...]

This immediately got my attention (how great would it be to have that song featured in this new film?), especially with Dougherty's reveal of who was writing the score. Turns out that Emmy-winning prolific composer Bear McCreary (Outlander, The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica, Colossal, 10 Cloverfield Lane, "God of War" just to name a few projects) is tackling the King[...]

For those of you who would like to play God of War all over again in a new light, Sony just handed out some details about their New Game Plus mode As revealed on the PlayStation Blog last night, you will be able to play the new mode somewhere down the road as they are[...]

God of War continues to sell exceedingly well as it has now surpassed 5 million copies sold to consumers in just less than a month. God of War has been the talk of the gaming community since its release last month The title reinvigorated a dated series, taking away a lot of the hack and slash[...]

In a brand new video that couldn't have come soon enough, Smosh Games takes a chilled axe crack at Sony's spring hit God Of War with an Honest Trailers retrospect at the game and the franchise as a whole The tagline to the entire video says it all as the creators write "From the developer of[...]

According to Sony's latest post on the PlayStation Blog, Santa Monica Studios' God of War is the fastest-selling PlayStation 4 exclusive game ever, with more than 3.1 million units sold globally in the first three days of sales. According to Sony: When we first revealed God of War less than two years ago, we knew we had something[...]

But for me, even being a cartoon love and a He-Man fan, it's so awkward having a mostly blank piece of paper. Moving onto the display item of the box, we got a God Of War exclusive with a replica of Kratos' shield The display is basically just two items, the shield and the rock[...]

Sony Playstation has a hit on their hands with the newest God of War title, no matter how you slice it.  Everyone is talking about the game, in both positive and negative ways (but more positive than negative) This of course means that attention has turned to the big question for any hit- what's next? Series director Cory[...]

Nintendo Labo has debuted in third in this week's UK retail charts behind both Far Cry 5 and God of War. credit//Nintendo Nintendo Labo was always a novel idea It's an incredibly Nintendo product, putting cardboard peripherals in a box for players to construct is something that will undoubtedly appeal to the younger and family audience the[...]

There are few things one can complain about (as far as visuals and audio goes) with the new Santa Monica Studio God of War release In particular, Chris Judge voicing main character Kratos was a brilliant move, the actor's rich deep baritone voice evoking emotion throughout the title. One word in particular gets said a lot — and[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Before we get into this, because I know the title and review score are enough to get many people angry with me, let me explain exactly where I came at this review from. I intended to examine God of War for how it plays, yes, but a large part of me also was constantly weighing[...]

This is a fine addition worth having on your desk or shelf as you play, and an awesome display item for casual gamers. Moving into God Of War territory, the poster in this box is that of the new video game cover, featuring Kratos and "boy" as we keep hearing him called on[...]

This week sees the release of something truly special: Bear McCreary's epic score to the game God of War! #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ The wait is finally over! This past Friday, Sony released the highly anticipated GOD OF WAR for PlayStation, and[...]

Sony's Santa Monica studio has released a patch for God of War which will allow players to toggle up the text size, as that's not currently a changeable dimension in the game And depending on the size of your screen, that text might be small as hell. The news came to us thanks to a response on[...]

God of War is seemingly off to a good start and is the second biggest retail release for a game this year. God of War is the talk of the town right now The game is a huge critical success, and it seems like the gaming community has been consumed by it over the weekend[...]

The steelbook edition of God of War comes with a bit of runic text printed on the side Many fans probably wondered what exactly the runes meant, and now we know And the text is a poetic flourish that hints at the game's main plot. Redditor Wolfstrong identified the runes as belonging to the Elder Futhark dialect[...]

Rather than a full day of panels and keynote speeches by notable game directors, this year will focus on three games. Shadow of the Tomb Raider will be hosting a panel for a special gameplay preview, God of War's cast and crew will discuss how they went about re-imagining the Ghost of Sparta in the world of[...]

Sony PlayStation's new chapter in the God of War franchise finally released on April 19th, and we've been giving it most of our attention The title was created by Santa Monica Studio this time around, and God of War director Cory Barlog really delivered. Barlog posted this super emotional video reacting to the so far OVERWHELMINGLY positive reviews of the game: https://youtu.be/FR7IX5RTPPAVideo[...]