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Note: This footage is best viewed in high definition. Click ‘HD’ to enable it. Halo fanatics will finally get their hands on Halo: Reach when the multiplayer beta, included with the purchase of Halo 3: ODST, is activated next week. You’ve already read our impressions but now you get to see some of the action, [...]
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25 Apr 2010window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Here’s a trailer for Nifflas’ new platformer FiNCK (Fire Nuclear Crocodile Killer), due out this May 12th. The game has been in production for a couple of months now, and will feature a level editor to facilitate the sharing of user-created content. FiNCK will not be freeware, but according to Nifflas it [...]
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23 Apr 2010window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; The latest developer diary for Star Wars: The Old Republic, posted above, makes an excellent point about the combat featured in other MMORPGs — it’s super unfair. Take a look at World of Warcraft, in which some dungeons pit 40 “heroes” against a single dude. Those odds don’t sound very “heroic” to [...]
Regardless of whether or not you’ve played any of Sid Meier’s games, or whether or not you find yourself curious as to how he became a gaming luminary, or whether or not you’ve got 24 minutes to kill — you’ve got to watch Motherboard’s latest documentary. Its focus is on the history of Meier’s game [...]
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25 Feb 2010Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell, dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular “Facebook Games” era.
With all of the furor around the StarCraft 2 beta going on this week, you might actually have forgotten that there are actually two major, big-budget RTS sequels due out in 2010. Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight is arriving in just a few weeks on March 16, and, to remind you of that fact, [...]
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12 Feb 2010There is a lot to digest in the above developer diary for Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight. Not only does it show the benefits of each class in the game, but it also reveals the new mission and player progression system. This time around, players will not only unlock things as they go along [...]
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12 Feb 2010Coinciding with the info avalanche at X10, Bungie has released a new Halo: Reach video documentary (aka “ViDoc”). There’s something for every Halo fan here: Spartan customization, new weapons, huge maps, new music, and plenty of human-on-alien warfare. A few things to look out for include a grenade launcher, stealth kills and a Spartan actually [...]
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3 Feb 2010They say time heals all wounds. Then why does it still hurt to think about Duke Nukem Forever? Even its apparent demise failed to bring closure to the big hole in our heart. And now this: The latest video remains to be found (resting — in one piece — after the break) seem unmistakably to [...]
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3 Feb 2010If you’ve been jonesing for your second hit of ADAM, you won’t have to wait a moment past 12 a.m. on February 9th; 2K has announced that BioShock 2 will get a midnight launch at Best Buy and GameStop stores. It’s great news for us, but bad news for the clerks who have to work [...]