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24 Jul 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Known best for their debut mouse-controlled sword battler Determinance, UK indie Mode7 has just sent on new information on their second game, coming as a PC downloadable later this year. Called Frozen Synapse — and looking quite pleasingly like.. — Rainbow Six, maybe? — by way of Introversion’s early node-hacker Uplink, Mode7 [...]
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23 Jul 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; OK, the trailer itself isn’t Ornery. It’s fine. We’re just excited that a video game trailer used the word. It’s a great word.
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23 Jul 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; This ‘Todd-exclusive’ video from the floor of Comic-Con shows off an as yet unannounced feature from Q-games’ upcoming PS3 downloadable PixelJunk Shooter — an equip-able lava cannon to give you more direct control of your puzzling surroundings — and an even better idea of the fluid- and thermo-dynamics of its caverns. Woo-hoos [...]
In: Culture|Gaming News|Microsoft
22 Jul 2009Microsoft is teaming with five productions houses for a series of seven short films called Halo Legends, reports the Los Angeles Times. The five production houses are some of the biggest names in the industry: Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio4 C, and Toei Animation. The creative director overseeing the production is Shinji Aramaki, director [...]
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22 Jul 2009Left 4 Dead 2 is playable on the showroom floor of Comic-Con, and people are playing it. People are then filming other people playing it, with special attention paid to the new stuff. Boy, those melee weapons look messy.
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9 Jul 2009Two stories of beloved cult hits getting overhauled for the now-gen this morning: the first, that Worms, Stunt GP, etc. creators Team17, as they quietly announced in late 2008, are due to turn their early-90s Gauntlet-esque Amiga shooter Alien Breed (above), into Alien Breed Evolved: The studio are still quiet on platforms and details, but [...]
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7 Jul 2009Here’s a new trailer for Bioware’s Old Republic, telling the tale of the Mandalorians. You know, those guys Boba Fett dresses up like.
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7 Jul 2009This first in a four-part series of animated Wolfenstein graphic novels from Activision tells the story of the original Wolfenstein 3D. Really out of date spoilers follow. It took me a moment to get my bearings while watching this first in the Wolfenstein animated graphic novel series. I had assumed that it was simply a [...]
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7 Jul 2009We thought WiiSpray – a Wii mod put together by a couple of German design students – was pretty neat. We’re not the only ones, as the judges of the iF Communication Design Awards are equally impressed. Held by German firm International Forum Design, WiiSpray was one of 377 finalists in the prestigious awards, from [...]
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6 Jul 2009Colorful cityscapes hide dark intriguing in the streets of NeoTokyo, the newly released Source mod freely available to anyone with Steam and a Souce SDK title. Nearly five years in the making by Studio Radi-8, NeoTokyo borrows inspiration from Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell and Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira, plunging players into a future Japan [...]