BioWare’s released its full ‘Take Earth Back’ trailer for Mass Effect 3
The CGI trailer aired in full on US TV last nigjht, during an episode of The Walking Dead.
As you can see, the video features an all-out attack on Earth by the ancient alien race known as the Reapers. A Mass Effect 3 demo launched last week, covering this section of the game.
A co-op portion of the demo also opened to all on Friday. (more…)
Leading Eastern and Central European publisher, 1C Company, is happy to present today a new website for the upcoming Men of War: Condemned Heroes.
Condemned Heroes is the newest installment in the best-selling Men of War series which fuses tactical thinking with the action-packed direct control mode. The website features lots of new content including a brand new teaser trailer.
Men of War: Condemned Heroes tells the story of one of the infamous Soviet penal battalions during the WWII. These battalions are famous for being formed under Stalin’s “No step back!” order #227.
They consisted of court-martialed officers that were given a chance to redeem their crimes, or incompetence, in blood by serving as the lowest enlisted rank in a battalion that was assigned the most dangerous tasks. These battalions’ images are surrounded by many myths, and this game tells the truth about these regiments based on real evidence from their former members. (more…)
RealAxis Software, an indie game developer from Bangalore, India, has just launched a new trailer for Stained, an upcoming side-scrolling, platforming and action game.
Set in an ancient, mysterious castle featuring detailed 3D environments and a continually changing game world, Stained will be released worldwide in early 2012 for PC.
Stained is a mystery woven around visuals, sound and an exciting gameplay experience. (more…)
After four years of development, the indie studio Grinding Gear Games has announced that their online action RPG, Path of Exile, will enter ‘closed beta’ on August 10th.
They have also unveiled plans for a range of Player vs. Player combat options designed to encourage a competitive online playing field.
The closed beta will randomly invite people who have registered on their website periodically, in order to stress test the servers. The beta client will arrive with two acts of gameplay and five of the six character classes.
En Masse Entertainment announced today that the launch of its award-winning and highly anticipated Action MMO, TERA, is scheduled for spring 2012.
Development and production continues to both add new features as well as refine confirmed elements to deliver an innovative, action packed experience set in a visually stunning world that can only be discovered in TERA.
“Adding time to our schedule will help us ensure we exceed people’s expectations for TERA,” said Chris Lee, publishing VP of En Masse Entertainment.
- Croteam Brings the Boom and the World Rejoices -
BOOM! That was the sound of Serious Sam 3: BFE news dropping. Croteam’s Serious Sam 3: BFE is a glorious throwback to the golden age of first-person shooters where men were men, cover was for amateurs and pulling the trigger made things go boom.
Serving as a prequel to the original indie sensation, Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Serious Sam 3: BFE takes place during the Earth’s final struggle against Mental’s invading legions of beasts and mercenaries. Set against the collapsing temples of an ancient civilization and the crumbling cities of 22ndcentury Egypt, Serious Sam 3: BFE is an exhilarating fusion of classic twitch shooters and modern gameplay features.
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If you like your games a bit different, a bit bloody, very funny and with lots of ways of killing waves and waves of enemies….Magicka is for you.
Magicka is a satirical action-adventure game set in a fantasy world based around Norse mythology. You take on the role of a wizard, who has set out on an adventure to stop an evil sorcerer and the hordes of minions/creatures he has at his disposal.
Magicka’s core gameplay comes in the form of – surprise surprise – the spells you cast. There are 8 different elements you can combine to create your spell, selected by eight different keys; Q,W,E,R,A,S,D, and F; with right-click used to cast.
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From the depths of hell the sounds of celebration and merriment are to be heard today. Not because another group of adventurers has vanquished the Lord of Destruction but because today the game celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Released on June 29th 2000, Diablo II instantly became a firm favourite of many RPG fanatic like myself. Its unending Demon slaughter combined with classic RPG design ideal, built on top of the well-built world of the first title, it would have been hard for it to fail.
Yet undoubtedly nobody, not even Blizzard themselves, could have expected that players would still be logging on to their Battle.net service for the game on a daily basis. The game also still receives update patches & regularly makes its way back into the PC games sales charts.
I personally have lost count about of the number of times I’ve reinstalled the game, compelled to play through it all again with a different class or build.
So let us raise a flagon of our best brew to Diablo, his Minions & all the great adventures we’ve had over the years killing them.
Going back-to-basics is not an advisable idea for a first-person shooter. Of all the genres of videogames, the FPS is the one that has to move forward with new ideas to avoid stagnation, and it is the lack of a fresh take that is the major problem with Aliens Vs Predator.
The entire experience feels like a step back to the shooters of the mid-to-late nineties and while the game doesn’t do anything majorly wrong, it doesn’t have anything that makes it stand out. A lack of new ideas is not always a hindrance as long as what the game does is done well. But even in this, AVP rarely rises above average.
