Michael Mclaughlin's Posts

The Tyranny of King Washington Continues Assassin’s Creed III’s Story

The Tyranny of King Washington Continues Assassin’s Creed III’s Story

Tyranny of King Washington Begins in February Assassin’s Creed III is getting some new DLC with the Tyranny of King Washington story line, a three-part adventure. The first episode, The Infamy, will be released for Xbox 360 and PC on February 19th and on the 20th for Playstation 3 users. All Assassin’s Creed III DLC will be available for Nintendo’s Wii U, but prices and dates have not yet been rel...

Read More »
MLG Winter Season Games – Black Ops 2 / League of Legends

MLG Winter Season Games – Black Ops 2 / League of Legends

Major League Gaming, the world’s largest eSports league, has revealed details of their 10th annual MLG Winter Season. They are promising that this season will be their most robust yet, with spectator events, enhanced broadcast production, and a revamped event experience. As for what games will be featured, MLG is bringing back the largest eSports titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops II on Xbox 360,...

Read More »
Ghost Recon Online Gets New Maps, Modes, and Gear

Ghost Recon Online Gets New Maps, Modes, and Gear

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Online players have new content to look forward to. Ubisoft has announced the release of patch 0.10.0 for its hit free-to-play online shooter. This patch will bring new weapons, armour, game modes, avatars, a new map, and several game service improvements and fixes. One of the most significant changes for Ghost Recon players will be the introduction of clan matches. While ...

Read More »
Oriental Assassin Comes to Conquer 2

Oriental Assassin Comes to Conquer 2

Conquer 2 Online has a new trailer featuring its latest character: the Oriental Assassin. In addition to the melee-based Pirate, Monk, Taoist, Trojan, Warrior, and Ninja classes, players of Conquer 2 will finally have a ranged character which the trailer boasts as “the best PVP class in Conquer”. The Oriental Assassin is also touted as being very easy to learn, so that even newbies to Conquer 2 On...

Read More »
Call of Thrones

Call of Thrones Wins Best 3D Browser Game Award

Call of Thrones, Yeepgame’s first 3D browser game, has won the 2012 Best 3D Game-of-the-Year award from BBGSITE. This is the second year in a row that the in-browser 3D MMORPG has received this honour.  Yeepgame promises to keep up this trend and to continue impressing their fans in the new year. Call of Thrones follows the same play style as traditional MMO’s, but is touted as being the first Chi...

Read More »
Wargame: European Escalation is Out Now on Mac

Wargame: European Escalation is Out Now on Mac

Wargame Hits Mac and Releases New Trailer Wargame: European Escalation, the immensely popular and critically acclaimed PC real-time strategy title from Eugen Systems and Focus Home Interactive, is now available on Mac. In addition, any PC user who has been enjoying Wagame: European Escalation will be able to download the Mac version for free! Eugen Systems is a well-known specialist in the RTS gen...

Read More »
Crusader Kings II: The Republic is Out Now

Crusader Kings II: The Republic is Out Now

Crusader Kings II Gets a Mercantile Update Crusader Kings II, Paradox Interactive’s critically acclaimed strategy/RPG, has a third expansion out now. Crusader Kings II: The Republic builds upon the original’s classic and addicting strategy gameplay by making the five great merchant Republics of medieval Europe playable for the first time. With this new DLC, players will have the option to become t...

Read More »
The Cave Gets Release Dates and Prices

The Cave Gets Release Dates and Prices

Sega/Double Fine’s The Cave Coming Soon Psychonauts and Brütal Legend, has teamed up with Sega to release The Cave later this month. Double Fine Productions has a history of making creative games with fun characters and witty writing. As the winner of Game Informers “Best Adventure Game” at E3 2012, The Cave appears to be keeping up this tradition. The game will feature a roster of seven cha...

Read More »
Games Britannia Returning For Another Year

Games Britannia Returning For Another Year

Festival Teaches Game Design Games Britannia, last year’s recipient of the “Best University/Educational Initiative” honor at last year’s TIGA Games Industry Awards,  is set to kick off its second iteration this month in South Yorkshire.  On January 23rd and 24th Sheffield  Hallam University will host a 24-hour game development and workshop marathon aimed at teaching students of all ages how to des...

Read More »
Abyss: the Wraiths Of Eden Now Available‏

Abyss: the Wraiths Of Eden Now Available‏

Delve Under the Sea With A New Puzzle Game Developed by Artifex Mundi and published by G5 Entertainment,     Abyss: the Wraiths of Eden is a new hidden object/puzzle title released today. The game is currently available for $2.99 on iPhone and for $4.99 on iPad, Mac, Google Play, Kindle Fire, and Nook until January 13th. After this introductory period, the price will be raised to $4.99 and $6.99. ...

Read More »