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Defiance TV show pilot review
Since Star Trek was canned and Battlestar Galactica finished there’s been a severe lack of decent sc-fi TV shows – but finally there’s [...]
What I hope to see in Batman: Arkham Origins
Thanks to a media announcement honked across the internet today, it’s been confirmed that Warner Bros. Games Montreal (and not Rocksteady) will be [...]
Batman: Arkham Origins releases on 25 October
Any confusion over what is happening with the next game in the Batman Arkham series can be cleared up this afternoon with the [...]
New Black Ops 2 Uprising DLC trailer shows some gameplay
No date for the PC version of the Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Uprising DLC, it’s coming to 360 first, but here’s [...]
Why Thief 4′s decision to drop Stephen Russell is a big mistake
Let’s start with a statement that should be obvious: I want Thief 4 to be amazing. Thief: The Dark Project and Thief 2: [...]
Advertising comes to SimCity with Nissan DLC. A slippery slope?
Today EA released a new piece of free DLC for SimCity, the Nissan Leaf Charging station. Note that this is free but it [...]
Torchlight 2 patched, Steam Workshop Support added and GUTS editor
This is not an April Fools, Runic Games has released the Torchlight 2 GUTS editor for modders along with a new patch and [...]
Should the Diablo 3 auction house be scrapped? It’s “hurt” the game after all
It’s been a few months since Jay Wilson stood down as the Diablo 3 game director and now that the dust has settled [...]
Blizzard would turn off Diablo 3 auction house if they could
At GDC, the previous Diablo 3 game director Jay Wilson was giving a Diablo 3 postmortem and made some rather interesting comments regarding [...]
Company of Heroes 2 beta starts next week
The Company of Heroes 2 beta is finally upon us as Relic get ready to test their highly anticipated RTS. This closed beta [...]
Latest Watch Dogs trailer offers a new perspective on previous footage
Remember the Watch Dogs trailer that was released alongside the Sony PlayStation 4 conference? Well, if not, it’s here. It gave a glimpse [...]
You’ll need a map to figure out Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag’s pre-order editions
Oh god. It’s with a sense of terrible dread that games writers approach Ubisoft PR mails about Assassin’s Creed pre-order editions. They are [...]
Web-bound: Marvel Heroes announces launch date of 4 June
David Brevik and Gazillion Entertainment have used the occasion of PAX East to slap a release date on free-to-play action-RPG Marvel Heroes. That [...]
Total War: Rome 2′s final faction is Egypt
The last of Total War: Rome 2′s eight factions has been revealed as Egypt, a once-mighty power with the potential to return to [...]
Star Wars: The Old Republic adds 2 million players since going F2P
Star Wars: The Old Republic didn’t do too well in its first year with the players dropping off sharply after launch. Last year [...]
Creating Bioshock Infinite’s Elizabeth Vidoc
According to Ken Levine Elizabeth is the “emotional centre” of Bioshock Infinite, and in this latest video ahead of next week’s release, Ken [...]
Galaxy Gorn mad: Star Trek’s villains profiled
Paramount Pictures has broadcast more ‘Making of Star Trek the videogame’ footage to the galaxy (ok, fine, I just mean they put it [...]
Warframe updated to 7.0, with new mod system, ‘frames and snow
Digital Extremes have added yet more features to their free-to-play, ninjas-in-space, co-op title Warframe. This 7.0 update brings a whole new mod system, [...]
Grim Dawn shots show the updated UI and mini-map
The Crate Entertainment team have been busy working away on their ARPG Grim Dawn as the release of the Alpha test draws closer. [...]
EA tries to atone for atrocious SimCity launch with free game offer
Everybody knows this PR dance by now. Large company screws up (in this case by being willfully misleading about the extent to which [...]
Lucy Bradshaw’s “straight answers” on SimCity being online only
Maxis’ Lucy Bradshaw is back today with a full statement regarding the online only SimCity requirements which has frustrated the huge SimCity fanbase. [...]
Row bros: Saints Row IV takes over turf in August
After THQ’s financial collapse earlier in the year, former in-house team Volition (developers of the Saints Row series) were purchased at bankruptcy auction [...]
Bioshock Infinite False Shepherd trailer with loads of weapon action
It’s time for another Bioshock Infinte trailer and this one goes by the title of “False Shepherd” and it shows off some of [...]
Maxis explains SimCity streetcar logic – Traffic does need sorting
Traffic is a hot topic in SimCity right now with players being puzzled by some of the logic behind how traffic flow works [...]
Maxis developer: SimCity servers are not computing as much as EA claims
Before, during and now after SimCity’s disastrous launch, EA representatives have insisted that an offline mode for the game is pretty much out [...]
New Tower Defense title Strategizer Kickstarter for 10K
We’ve seen Kickstarter projects looking for 500K+ in recent weeks so it’s refreshing to see a one pop up for a new Tower [...]
Maxis will look at offline Sim City to earn fans’ trust
As part of keeping the Sim City community up to date with what’s been happening with Sim City, Maxis’ SVP Lucy Bradshaw hit [...]
Sim City stability update and EA compensates customers
Here in Europe there has been less issues with Sim City than in the US, in fact it’s not been that bad at [...]
Garriott Kickstarts new RPG Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues
Richard Garriott AKA Lord British is back with a new game called Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues and it’s been launched on Kickstarter [...]
UK Sim City launch goes smoothly
We were waiting for the hamsters to die on the Sim City servers here in Europe when it went live at midnight but [...]
