Two gamers from the UK won a £10,000 prize in a GameShadows Battle Tournament. The tournament gave players around the world the chance to compete in either Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare or Counter-Strike: Source Challenge. The tournament lasted for about two and a half months as players battled (and hopefully took breaks for food, drink, time for loved ones, etc.) to win a lot of money. What can ...
Read More »Those of you who have already pre-ordered Gearbox’s highly anticipated Borderlands 2 have even more loot for your release day bag. For those vault hunters who happen to preorder at Gamestop will be in for horde mode treat with the Creature Slaughter Arena. The endless enemy mode sees inspirations take from the original Borderland’s Mad Moxxi Underdome that saw players taking on hours of different ...
Read More »Orcs will soon join up with fire & water lords in the first booster pack for Orcs Must Die! 2. I theorized before that Robot Entertainment might be using Orcs similar to how other game developers use zombies. Orcs are not associated with any country in the real world that would take offense to white men with an addiction to violence; and they breed like rabbits to provide plenty of killing mat...
Read More »Fruit Ninja Kinect is getting an 8-bit makeover with the Fruit Ninja: 8-Bit Cartridge DLC. Finally, video games are including more nostalgia, and thank goodness. I was getting tired of having to play the same handful of games over and over again just to get that nostalgic feel. I mean, what’s the deal video game industry? Why aren’t you filling this nostalgia niche? Why aren’t the familiar franchi...
Read More »The Brazil Game Show will be kicking off soon, from October 11th to 14th at the Expo Center Norte Convention Center in São Paulo. The Brazil Game Show is a Games Fair which started life in 2008. Due to them maintaining a 100% national corporate viewpoint and focusing on the growing market for electronic games, the show has become the largest Electronic Game Fair in Latin America. 80,000 visitors a...
Read More »Frost Wars: The Rise of Fatty Sparkles is coming to PC, Mac, and Linux. Yes, yes, the name gave me pause as well. The Frost Wars: The Rise of Fatty Sparkles trailer debuted August 23, giving players a look at the graphics and setting of this title. For me, the most infuriating part of the trailer was around the 12 second mark, when they didn’t use an Oxford comma in the trailer text. I mean really...
Read More »Burian media have announced a new upcoming Indie game, “Dark Shadows – Army of Evil”. In the game the player will take on the role of a knight who has to battle hordes of monsters to bring order to the country and save the woman he loves. The Indie game has been described as a ‘First Person Shooter medieval fantasy’ game. Dark Shadows- Army of Evil is set in September 1362. In th...
Read More »Tiny Troopers has just been released for PC and Mac. The title was previously released by Iceberg Interactive for mobile and iOS devices. About half of the new launch trailer consists of corporate logos, but once you get past that you finally get to see some gameplay. I can’t wait for the day when the entire trailer is just logos from various publishers and developers, because who wants to see gam...
Read More »Two new character classes are introduced in both factions for Primal Carnage: The quick and deadly Raptor; along with the calm, careful Trapper. Releasing a new shooter in the market is like releasing your pet fish in a cat breed/trick show groomed from professional breeders. Developers taking this risk are more likely to get their pet eaten with fava beans and a nice Chianti by the winning cat. H...
Read More »Crytek’s free-to-play military shooter, Warface has received the 2012 Gamescom 2012 award for best Social/Casual/Online Game. The award, which was determined by an independent panel of international judges, was one of just seven official Gamescom awards given out. The Gamescom awards seek to pay homage to the best games and products which are premiered at the show. CEO and founder of Crytek Cevat ...
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