News: The first non-Capcom-developed Devil May Cry is set to find its way to your televisions on January 15th 2013, taking attention away from our favourite national saint day. If you’re like me and still find it weird to write ’2012′ on forms then you can sympathise with the fact that I have to come to [...]

Delayed Reaction: The launch of Max Payne 3 led Julian Benson to return to the first of the series. Here, he finds MAX PAYNE to be a whole lot darker then he ever knew… They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation point to everything that had led up to that point. I lifted my [...]

Video: Showing off night fighting, TotalBiscuit talks us through over 20 minutes with the upcoming free-to-play MMOFPS Planetside 2. As anticipated games go, Planetside 2 has a lot of people round these parts excited. It’s a gorgeous looking shooter that offers play that can’t be found in any other game and Sony are giving it away for free. [...]

News: Bohemia Interactive’s remake of the 80s game Carrier Command, Gaea Mission, has received a release date. Fans of Carrier Command have had a rough time of it these past 25 years. Sure the early days were fun, versions for all the many console boxes of the day. Oh how they laughed, “There will be Carrier Command [...]

Video: Rocksteady prove they’ve gone too far by releasing the longest named game trailer ever seen. Oh the humanity. Won’t someone please think of the games journalists? Look at that lengthy tome of a title. Just look at it. Who thought that was a good idea? A double colon? You can’t even find that in the [...]

News: CCP’s shooter set in the EVE universe is taking new beta applications to join their expanding Dust 514 test phase. EVE is likely one of the games with the highest talked about to least played ratios on the market. That is in no way to slight the game – its playerbase has been growing year on year [...]

News: The roleplaying game based on George R. R. Martin’s wildly popular fantasy series The Song of Ice and Fire has a release date, June 8th. Listen up gamers: the roleplaying game based on the Game of Thrones will be in game shops (and GAME shops, one must presume) on June 8th, the day after the gaming [...]

Video: Continuing on from part one of the Darksiders 2 CG series Death Strikes, in which men were sliced in two, part two features robots cut in two. It speaks volumes about my nervous temperament that I’m sweating with worry over the use of the word robot. Although I’ve used the word can I be sure [...]

News: Blizzard have responded to the complaints concerning the launch of Diablo III and have detailed their plans to increase stability. We’ve already written muchly about the Diablo III launch fails but now Blizzard have written their own piece on it (quoted in full below). They acknowledge the problem claiming that “despite very aggressive projections, our preparations for the launch of [...]

News: Steam has implemented the next stage of its mobile app, now allows remote downloads and management of your game library. It was to be expected – if anything it felt oddly missing when the app originally rolled out – the Steam mobile app now allows you to install games on your computer remotely. The Steam app, released [...]

News: As part of  ”Operation Icebreaker”, Activision tried to “dig up dirt” on the heads of Infinity Ward they wanted to fire, a court has heard. On the 1st March 2010 Activision fired both Jason West and Vince Zampella . However, a court has learned, that prior to their termination the publisher’s IT department had attempted to gain access to [...]

News: Arma 2′s 1.61 update will feature support for the incredibly popular zombie mod DayZ. Right below ‘Complete Diablo 3′ and ‘Buy Joss Whedon a coffee’ on my list of priorities is ‘Play DayZ‘. The mod has you trying to stay alive following a zombie invasion. So far, so familiar hat, right? Where DayZ veers off the course [...]

News: Following the furore surrounding Street Fighter x Tekken’s on-disc DLC, Capcom are ”re-evaluating” the practice. Capcom came under fire recently after they charged PS3 and XBOX 360 players $20 for 12 Street Fighter X Tekken characters that were already stored on the disc. It’s a dubious practice, raising questions about ownership and licencing (if it’s on the disc [...]

Video: A second teaser from Piranha shows off Mechwarrior Online’s gameplay in a distinctively un-dubstep manner. They’ve called it a teaser trailer but what Piranha have released is a pleasingly frank portrayal of Mechwarrior Online . There’s no FMW video clips, no artsy shots of a mech in the rain , and nothing of that foul trend in modern gaming, dubstep editing . I’ve [...]

News: Diablo 3′s always-on DRM has caused issues for a number of players during last night’s launch as servers hit full capacity. Eager Diablo 3 beavers struggled to get into the game after it launched last night as the Blizzard servers hit their capacity limits. It was going to happen, we knew that, but it doesn’t make it [...]

News: Whilst we all wait on tenterhooks to see what comes of the $3m Kickstarter, Ron Gilbert’s starting to show off what he’s been working on. So, we’re all a little intrigued to see what $3m gets us . But, for the foreseeable future that’s all very hush hush. What’s slightly less secret – hush, if you will [...]

News: Crytek’s Warface has broken player records in the cold continent. Look at me reader, look at me! Is that the best you’ve got, grimace. Grimace more. A little less. Now, fleetingly, think about Sartre. Good, that’s your warface. But you know what your warface and Crytek’s Warface likely don’t have in common? I bet yours hasn’t broken [...]

News: A trailer that announces the impending launch of a game, you know the drill. The game is Dragon’s Dogma. “A cockatrice” said the puny tin whistle voice. Yes this is high fantasy through the face of a child lost on camping holiday, check it out: Yup, Dragon’s Dogma is on its way. Now I could join [...]

News: The Portal 2 level creator’s been out for less than a week and there’s been more han 35,000 maps created and 1.3 million cumulative downloads. The preliminary results are in. Drum roll please (I like to think that any time scientists get together to share findings they have a drummer at the ready): it’s only [...]

News: In response to the trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 which depicts Anonymous as a terrorist organisation, the group have released a counter video that issues threats of what they will do if their demands are not met. So, Activision have stepped into the firing line after they released a video in which Anonymous are depicted as a [...]