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26 Aug 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; “Zombies in the south”. Simple premise, but sometimes even a simple premise needs a little visual representation before it becomes real. Cue Left 4 Dead 2′s concept art.
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19 Aug 2009This starts off as a developer diary. Don’t let that bother you. For starters, the clip is full of in-game action. And secondly…their Scandinavian accents are just so soothing. window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″;
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29 Jul 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; A new trailer for Rebellion’s upcoming Aliens Vs. Predator showcases the game’s third faction, the defiled corpses Marines. The game is called Aliens Vs. Predator, not Aliens Vs. Predator Vs. Marines. An obvious fact, but one that bears mentioning here. The humans have never really shined in the Aliens movie series, and [...]
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26 Jul 2009Ok, back to work here… The latest Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet trailer might be old news now, as it’s had lots of attention in the last few weeks. I’d like to comment on it anyway, though. The game looks fantastic, and appears to be an “all-azimuth” shooter. It doesn’t seem to have forced scrolling, and [...]
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23 Jul 2009OK, 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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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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25 Jun 2009Developer Croteam has worked up a new versionof their CroTech Engine in order to deliver Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD to the Xbox Live Arcade. Scheduled for a late summer release, Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD is exactly what the name implies: the first entry in the tongue-in-cheek, over the top Serious Sam [...]
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13 Jun 2009Last week, Microsoft’s Shane Kim told us that the launch of the 360′s motion-controlled camera system – Project Natal – would be as big as a console launch. Maybe he was onto something with that. Because 1UP are reporting a rumour that while Natal will be released next year for existing 360 consoles, it will [...]
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8 Jun 2009We know nothing about Halo: Reach other than the fact it’s a new Halo game, and that it’s due sometime next year. So in the absence of facts, then, let’s speculate! While the game’s trailer lets us know the obvious things – it’ll deal with the Covenant’s attack on the human colony of Reach – [...]
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4 Jun 2009You remember Johnny Lee, right? Sure you do, he’s the man who can make magic happen with the Wii Remote. And it seems he’s bringing his skills to Microsoft’s Project Natal controller. While Lee is quick to say he doesn’t deserve credit for what we saw at E3, he does add, “The part I am [...]