The new Trailer for CryENGINE 3 shows off lens flare, plant and cloth simulation, and unique looking toads! Sometimes I wonder what audience do trailers for video games have in mind. First there was the trailer showing off explosions and photorealistic faces in a shooter coming out later this year; and another trailer that uses live-action scenes to somehow advertise the game. The trailer here kin...
Read More »Defend your hobgoblins with wacky weapons and engineering in the physics-puzzle game Rigonauts! There are very few games that challenge players with simulation rules these days. Most of the games on the console are content with throwing challenges at us where we point and shoot at Russians; and mobile games vary in challenges from turn-based combat to impressing your kittens. But simulation games ...
Read More »Journey with friends to tackle some huge beasts in RaiderZ – or die alone. Okay kids, time for a history lesson: Back in the stone age of the previous console generation, Capcom had an idea for a multi-player game on the PS-2. Monster Hunter was an action-RPG where people with obscenely huge swords and spiky armor take on big monsters to get big loot. Supposedly the game got really popular with Ja...
Read More »New Allods (Instanced dungeons), ‘quick start’ client, and player referral bonuses appear in the expansion Allods Online: New Horizons. Fans of gPotato’s free-to-play MMORPG Allods Online were in for a treat this year, if they attended Gamescom. They could hang out with the staff that works on the game, get their questions answered and see new content that will be released for th...
Read More »Carry around your own chest-high walls or drive your own bipedal tank in the multiplayer portion of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Activision keeps dropping small pieces of kernel for us writers to fight over in the pond so we can get it to you as fast as possible. The first piece of bread gave us hints on how the main protagonist in the first game, Mason, is doing now that he is an old man and who th...
Read More »Pilot your own giant robot in the Real Time Strategy game AirMech! Anyone notice that our library of games for this generation lack robots? Isn’t there like some kind of geek-law, next to the 5th commandment that ‘thou shall only consume Cheetos’ which dictates ‘thou shall drive giant robots into explosions and bullets, and thou shall smile with glee’? Maybe we’...
Read More »Only one more week remains for the Kickstarter of Shadowrun Online, and new details are revealed about character awareness. Crowd-funded games seems to be the answer for indie developers. It lets them get the money they need to make the video games they love, and it helps boost attention to their product. Similarly, gamers familiar with an old IP might be excited to find a new game in their favori...
Read More »Get ready to play as North American Presidents starring in their own Zombie apocalypse (again) in Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies, now on the Android! From what little I knew about the zombie game-mode in the original Call of Duty: Black Ops, the game consisted of fighting an endless wave of zombies while boarding yourself up in a room and acquiring new weapons and ammo with each wave. The new spi...
Read More »Aliens have come 17.3 billion lights years to kick human’s rear, but you can tell them to go back in 2022 Space Invasion! The top-down shooter or “bullet-hell” games are a rare breed with the hardcore, console gamers. These games started on consoles with games like R-Type or the classic Space Invaders. But when you bring up nightmares like Silver Surfer and you might get some old...
Read More »Come with Master Chief if you want to live in Halo 4. I’m sure fans are a bit hesitant with the announcement of the new Halo game in the series. With Bungie signing up to work for Activision, Microsoft only has 343 Industries to work on Halo 4. So far 343 Industries made an mobile app with the Halo franchise, Halo: Waypoint; a map-pack for Halo: Reach; and another remake for the original Hal...
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