The upcoming shooter Spec Ops: The Line will featured co-operative multiplayer as a free download shortly after the game’s release, announced 2K Games. The co-op experience will feature four missions, all set in a sandstorm-ravaged Dubai. The game also features an online multiplayer mode.
Some of us grew up without our memories, waking up in a drawer in a morgue. Others wandered the streets of Seattle as Gator Shaman. Either way, it’s been a very long time since we got a true Shadowrun game. The team at Harebrained Schemes agree and they took their plan to Kickstarter. The world joined in their fight for a good Shadowrun game, funded the game with crowdsourcing, and in just s…
If you’re a PS3 owner who’s been itching to get some fighting game action in but are currently on a budget, good news! Namco has announced that Tekken Revolution is now available exclusively on the Playstation Network. This is a free-to-play take on the Tekken series, letting you choose from an initial cast of eight characters to play against both AI opponents and live players online. This one al…
Virgin Gaming announced today that they will be teaming up with Microsoft to create the Xbox Live Tournaments service, available later this year. This service will allow Xbox Live Gold users to browse, enter, and compete in tournaments for a variety of games directly from the Xbox Live interface. Gamers will be able to compete for prizes and bragging rights in both free and paid-entry competition…
Backing something on Kickstarter can be a risky proposition. You never know what will come out from it, as our first impressions of Star Command have shown. However, the idea of combining a MMORPG and a TCG must be very popular. Cryptozoic has announced that their Kickstarter for HEX: Shards of Fate is fully-funded after five days.
Eurogamer has picked up some details about the upcoming seafaring antics in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. At this point, anyone following Assassin’s Creed knows there’s going to be some open-world exploration, and a fair share of that is going to be out on the ocean. And this is quite large as far as oceans go – game director Ashraf Ismail claims that it takes around a half hour to transverse …
While Street Fighter X Tekken has been getting a lot of press behind it, another Tekken game is coming, Tekken Hybrid. The style behind it is much different from Capcom’s latest offerings. It looks great on the consoles though, and if you want to see how great, take a look after the break for several screenshots.
RAGE is now less than a month away and the commercials are starting to invade unsuspecting viewers. The first RAGE TV spot debuted last weekend during a college football game on ESPN, with the track “Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums” (yep that’s the real, surprisingly appropriate title) by A Perfect Circle blaring in the background.
Deus Ex has been hailed as a great game, but it also brings out questions about human augmentation. The developers did their homework, and they have produced a twelve minute video highlighting the augmentation used in Deus Ex and the current state of human augmentation. The ethical questions brought up are very interesting.
Last year we heard a lot about the PSN exclusive Papo & Yo but I never got to try it out because I didn’t have ready access to my PS3. If, like me, you’ve been waiting to try it out today is your lucky day, because you can now get a copy on Steam, Amazon, and “other direct download platforms.”
Online free-to-play publisher OGPlanet has announced its latest upcoming title, a raucous third-person shooter called GUNDOG featuring dog soldiers (literally) fighting on a variety of battlefields. Players will have the ability to select between several different classes, packing all the firepower and perks you’d expect in an online run-and-gun. OGPlanet has teamed up with Seoul-based developer …
There is absolutely no discounting the power of an open sandbox and the building blocks to make something magical. Many people say that imagination is dead, but games like Guncraft completely break that idea into tiny, tiny pieces that you can reassemble into something cool. Today we’ve got a trailer that shows off a bit of the title Guncraft – a voxel-based title that is working to get onto t…
We’ve put up some screenshots from the recently released Assassin’s Creed Revelations for your perusal. The game features Ezio as he travels to Constantinople to stop the Templars from discovering Altair’s secret library. Along with the standard weapons, bombs and a hookblade have been added to his deadly arsenal.
Virtual pinball experts and newcomers alike will have a lot to look forward to this spring when Zen Pinball 2 arrives on the PlayStation 3 and Vita. While most sequels are designed as discrete, standalone experiences, Zen Studios will be offering the base package as a free update for all existing Zen Pinball players to automatically import all of their existing tables. And you know what the bes…
Take a look at that screen shot above, it looks like the TV show right? Well that’s just the way Matt Stone and Trey Parker wanted it. The upcoming South Park RPG is set to launch March of 2013 and judging from the hands on approach Matt and Trey have taken with the game it should be a real gem. Check out our collection of screens below and the Microsoft E3 press conference video to see the creat…
Got a little time to kill? In the mood for a free flash game with a good sense of humor? Then behold, citizen – I bring word from Adult Swim Games about their latest offering! Click through for some more details on the gem that is Lee-Lee’s Quest 2.
Okay, so we all know the HD collection of Silent Hill games was something of a disaster. Nobody’s happy about it, but sometimes bad things happen. Who among us can claim not to have updated a beloved classic only to clumsily annihilate its artistry and soul in the process? The important thing is that we learn from these mistakes and vow to do better work in the future. Except by “we,” I mean …
E3 just wrapped up, and we’ve got a lot of news for you to pick through if you haven’t checked it out yet. But while the news piled up from all quarters, there were some conspicuous absences at this year’s expo. Were the powers that be hoping we just didn’t notice? Were they just not ready, or were there more ominous reasons for their lack of appearance? What was the most noticeable absence of al…
Patch notes are great. It’s important to know what’s been changed, if only so you can adapt your play style to take it into account. Only the most descriptive change logs can ever hope to match the value of a full patch explanation though, as learning about the reasoning behind each balancing tweak goes a long way to understanding why they’re important. That’s exactly the insight we’re getting…
EA’s latest installment in the Army of TWO franchise, Army of TWO: The Devil’s Cartel, is prepping for it’s launch on March 26th by releasing a new demo of the game. The demo debuts on March 12th, today, for the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network. The game features co-op based gameplay. In the demo, one player will face the opponents on the ground, running directly into the battlefield…
