Valve released some HD gameplay footage for its Left 4 Dead 2 Cold Stream DLC for Xbox 360, PC, and Mac. Originally scheduled for release on the same day as the Mac and PC versions, the Xbox 360 version is expected to be launched sometime next week. The DLC includes updated versions of Death Toll, Dead Air, Blood Harvest and Crash Course, and of course, the Cold Stream campaign. Cold Stream...
Read More »DoubleDutch Games has announced that their award winning game, Speedrunner HD is going to be released on Valves PC platform, Steam. Speedrunner HD started life as a flash game that many people played over and over again. It gathered more attention when it hit Xbox Live Arcade and had a chance to appeal to a wider audience as it was critically acclaimed for its local multiplayer mode and tight cont...
Read More »Bioware Austin, the studio behind the critically-acclaimed Star wars: The Old Republic MMO have announced today that the game will be receiving a free-to-play option this fall. This addition will give eager players access to all eight of the characters story lines with certain restrictions, up to a level cap of 50. Full access to the game, like higher levels and downloadable content are still avai...
Read More »Microsoft has revealed the official release date of its Surface tablet in a report submitted this week to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, confirming the day to be October 26th. This coincides with information reported on earlier this month, about the launch of the new operating system Windows 8 on October 26th as well. Only one form of Surface will be available on launch day, which is s...
Read More »One British-born, Australian-native game critic once said that stealth based games appeal to him due to the ability to be invisible while enacting his perverted voyeurism. I won’t get into details here on whether stealth-based games are appealing to me like that, but I do like them for touching on challenges I like in video games. I like exploring in dark corridors, carefully planning my ste...
Read More »I remember shooters had a lot more variety of game-worlds to them in the past. One shooter that stuck out the most for me would be Descent on the PC, which allowed you to fly around in a 3D world shooting at your targets. Descent could work in our time as you take control of a pilot in a fighter ship, flying around in tight corridors with full 3D control and shooting down enemy fighter ships with ...
Read More »The setting is an unknown, uninhabited planet that has been devoid of life for untold centuries. Survivors sought shelter in the castle, the final stronghold left in the kingdom. But the Scourge eventually breached the castle walls, and tore their way towards the castle itself. You are a creature clad in robes of black, your origins unknown, much like the planet itself. You wield a mean-looking sc...
Read More »Today, Belegacom released its innovative OnLive cloud gaming service in Belgium, making it the second European country in which OnLive is avalaible. If that wasn’t enough to get the Belgium gamer’s blood boiling, Belegacom also announced that it will be offering its internet customers a one-month subscription to the OnLive PlayPack for free, giving them access to a library of over 200 games. This ...
Read More »One of the leading free-to-play game publishers, gPotato, will be attending this year’s Gamescom to show off a slew of updates for their games. gPotato.eu is a multiplayer game portal Web site provided to numerous players around the world. Most games in gPotato.eu’s library are free-to-play MMORPGs like Flyff, but there are some casual Flash or browser-based games like Canaan Online. A...
Read More »Hackers that got into Ubisoft’s online PC network found exposed data for uPlay which could be used for malicious software. Specifically some hackers claim uPlay could be used as a rootkit to get into other people’s systems and activate programs against their will. However, the possibility of uPlay being a rootkit is up to debate with some software security experts. Computer and Video G...
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