News: 2K Games has announced the release date of Spec Ops: The Line, released a multiplayer video, and detailed the premium edition. My they have been busy. Having released The Darkness 2 the PR campaign for Heart of Darkness Apocalypse Now Spec Ops: The Line can shout “Chocks away” and begin picking up speed before launch. Step one of pre-flight [...]

News: Gamefreak director Junnichi Masuda has told Pokemon fans to watch the next episode of Pokemon Smash for details of the next game. Junnichi Masuda , director/producer/compose/programmer extraordinaire over at Gamerfreak told fans at a recent Q&A that if they want details about the next Pokemon game they should watch next week’s Pokemon Smash. Apparently, he says ”Well, there’s no reason to expect me [...]

News: Roccat have taken a leaf out of Razer’s book and are teasing the death of PC gaming to publicise an upcoming PC peripheral, hmm. You may remember that Razer posted a site claiming “PC gaming is alive” as a means of teasing their upcoming Fiona gaming tablet . It rattled a few cages, mainly because anyone who’s peddling the illusion [...]

Delayed Reaction: Welcome to a new regular in which one of our writers plays a classic with modern eyes. SYNDICATE sees a flashy FPS reboot this month, so we’ve taken the opportunity to look back at the isometric strategy game that defined a generation. But it wasn’t all plain sailing… An hour in to Syndicate I was pretty sure I’d picked [...]

News: New video of Cube World shows customisable weapons, combat, and voxel death. Next to the humble square cubes are traditionally the least cool shape. They are hip-less, but they are dependable. The slew of voxel-based games of the past few years have worked darn hard to undo that image. Infiniminer made cubes clever, Minecraft made them creative, [...]

News: Puzzle game Fract has players making music as they solve problems, all in a clean cut retro computing look. I’m not musical. Never have been, and frankly never will be. But that doesn’t stop my optimistic little spirit ballooning with hope whenever I see something that makes music-making look easy. And Fract is one such thing. A [...]

The upcoming Lionsgate film Hunger Games is receiving the indie game treatment from Adam Saltsman. A feature film is being made into a game! Wait, come back. I’m not finished yet. The game is being made by  Canabalt creator Adam Saltsman . And, it’s not just him but a developer dream-team. In Saltsman’s own words:

Mark Johns ( Tap Tap Dance ) and Kevin Coulton , [...]

New developer interview gives us our first look at Sleeping Dogs in action. True Crime: Hong Kong Sleeping Dogs was revealed last week through the medium of an awesome live action Hard Boiled style teaser . This week we get a look at the actual game. Not quite as awesome, but still pretty. It’s a blend of gameplay and in-game [...]

Firaxis have announced an expansion to Civilization V, Gods & Kings. Civilization V is set to be expanded with a Gods & Kings . As well as bringing in a huge amount of new content there will also be (as the title suggests) the addition of religion. You’ll be able to create your own religion, or simply work [...]

Blizzard will be updating the Diablo 3 beta today with patch 13, it will include a character wipe. Blizzard will be implementing Diablo 3′s beta patch 13 later today. Though what it will update is still largely unknown. Blizzard’s community manager Stephanie Johnson broke the news that “a character wipe will be included”, and “as with previous character wipes, this wipe [...]

DICE are updating the Commo Rose chat system following complaints, optimising it for Battlefield 3. Having trouble being heard in Battlefield 3 ? It could be an issue with the ever-buggy Commo Rose system (or it could be because no one ever listens to each other in multiplayer anymore). DICE have heard the complaints and they’re upgrading the system. In  a tweet [...]

Valve have let more than 7,000 players into the closed beta for Counterstrike: Global Offensive. This week sees the start of Counterstrike: Global Offensive’s closed beta, and Valve have finally detailed how to get in. Valve are looking for active players only, so to get invited to join the exclusive lock-in you need to be in “the top 7000 [...]

Telltale are starting to talk about their upcoming Walking Dead tie-in game, through the medium of chat show? Since announcing the game Telltale have been awful quiet about their upcoming Walking Dead title. As PR are want to do we are beginning to see the slow shuffle of details. Though unlike the usual mix of teaser trailers (which no [...]

Brian Fargo  will be funding a sequel to Wasteland using Kickstarter next month. Brian Fargo of Fallout and Wasteland fame has announced that he’ll be funding a sequel to Wasteland using Kickstarter. The fund will open next month, giving our wallets a reprieve from this month’s splurge . The Fallout series was caught up with legal difficulties long before the recent spat between Bethesda and Interplay. [...]

The next Minecraft update will allow for 4,000 different block types, as well as raising the height of the world space. Jeb’s been hard at work at the next Minecraft update. Rather than adding in new features and items he’s cracking open the engine to let modders do that for him. Dubbed ‘ Anvil‘, the next update will expand the possible [...]

2 Dawn have released a video showing off their multiplayer FPS Ravaged and some of the vehicles you can play with. Some day we’ll tell our children about the time when the levy broke and every game was a Mad Max-influenced post apocalyptic shooter. For now though we just have to stride through the quagmire of [...]

3DS game New Love Plus will let players sign up for emails from their in-game girlfriend as well as supply you with printable postcards. It’s Valentine’s day as many insufferable people keep reminding me, yet this is the only thematic news that has (so far) compelled me to post about it: New Love Plus will allow players [...]

Chris Avellone, developer of Planescape Torment, has responded to a fan’s urge for Planescape 2 “I’ve got Kickstarter fever now”. The past week has seen a couple of big developments in middle studio publishing. First Notch’s offer to Tim Schafer , then Tim Schafer’s offer to gamers , and now a gamer’s offer to Chris Avellone . A fan of Avellone’s work [...]

A new Witcher 2 teaser video shows off violence, kingly deaths, and WAR. Whilst the web is still reeling a little from  the immensely good Witcher 2 video from a couple of weeks ago, Namco Bandai have let loose another teaser for the game. It shows off murder, war, and a painful looking falling to knees scene. As [...]

Epic Games’ Mark Rein has said that the Unreal Engine 4 will be revealed later this year. Epic are a company which is known as much for its technology as for its games, both have widely effected the industry. Games like Gears of War have cemented the cover shooter as a hallmark of modern shooters and the game [...]