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In: Gaming News|PC
2 Jul 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; The name of this game is H.A.V.E. Online. It’s a PC title, and an open beta is supposed to go down sometime this year. The game looks strangely familiar. An homage? Even with the otaku toy twist, the game is a little too close to Team Fortress 2 for some on the [...]
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19 Jun 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; The PC version of Cyanide Studios‘ adaptation of classic Games Workshop board game Blood Bowl is less than a week away, and all eight fantasy football teams are raring to go. After a bit of legal wrangling over Cyanide’s last fantasy football release, Chaos League, the developer and Games Workshop settled their [...]
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19 Jun 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Blizzard have released the third of their “Battle Reports“, in-depth videos showing off some of the finer features of upcoming RTS powerhouse Starcraft II.
In: Gaming News|Microsoft
17 Jun 2009Even more classic Worms-style gameplay is coming to Xbox Live Arcade with Worms 2: Armageddon, a proper numerical sequel to Team17′s 1999 classic turn-based strategy game Worms Armageddon. Worms 2: Armageddon‘s trailer highlights the changes coming to the XBLA version—and eventually to the PC and Mac—including new vertical levels and other landscape types, all-new weapons [...]
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9 Jun 2009For some of us, playing StarCraft competitively is a beautiful ballet of dying over and over again, so it’s good that Blizzard is working hard on making death interesting in StarCraft II. The latest update to the Developer’s Corner section of the official StarCraft II web page showcases this video, kicking off with a Protoss [...]
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9 Jun 2009What’s new in Left 4 Dead 2? This collection of direct feed gameplay snippets from Valve’s quick sequel shows off the highlights: melee weapons, incendiary bullets, new Special Infected, zombie killin’ action set during day time and… tractors! Yes, this is the South, so you’ll come across a John Deere or two in your journey [...]
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8 Jun 2009I called Just Cause 2 the best thing I saw at E3. That’s a big call for a sequel to a so-so game. So, just in case you think I’ve gone mad, watch this. It’s the same developer demo I sat through behind closed doors at E3. It runs for around 10 minutes, but it’s [...]
In: Gaming News|Humor
3 Jun 2009So, Mario and Luigi are Italian, but are they Italian stereotypes? Be warned, bad words and bad fake facial hair ahead! Thanks, B W!
In: Gaming News|Nintendo
3 Jun 2009Mario is back and ready to circle around planets in spaaaaaaaaaace. As we posted previously, Miyamoto said that the original plan was to “essentially create new variations of the worlds in Super Mario Galaxy.” But, over time, the developers have had so many ideas that Miyamoto estimates that 90% of the game’s levels are all [...]
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22 May 2009With 5, 560 square miles of accessible in-game terrain, Codemasters’ Fuel is the biggest console game of all time, and they’ve got the Guinness World Records certificate to prove it. The award for largest playable area in a console game was awarded to Fuel developer Asobo Studios. Guinness World Records presented the developer with a [...]