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All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox

All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set [...]

January 2, 2012 | 0 Comments More
Raam’s Shadow DLC out for Gears of War 3

Raam’s Shadow DLC out for Gears of War 3

Gears of War fans should be sprinting to their Xbox, MS points in hand, because a new batch of DLC has been released for the game. Raam’s Shadow is, in fact, the biggest add-on ever to be released in the history of the Gears of War franchise. The new mini-campaign is around three hours in [...]

December 14, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Focus claims Game of Thrones RPG

Focus claims Game of Thrones RPG

Focus Home Interactive has announced that it has bagged another game which is being developed that’s based on the Game of Thrones books and hit TV series. The franchise, which has suddenly got hotter than an orc torturer’s poking stick since it was aired on Sky earlier this year, has had several computer games developed [...]

December 5, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Jagged Alliance: Back in Action coming Feb 2012

Jagged Alliance: Back in Action coming Feb 2012

Kalypso Media has announced that the latest instalment of the Jagged Alliance series is set for release on the PC in February 2012. The turn-based tactical combat game will see the player putting together the usual crew of diversely skilled mercenaries, this time to recapture the island nation of Arulco, which is ruled over by [...]

November 29, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Dragon Eternity browser MMOG hits beta

Dragon Eternity browser MMOG hits beta

Dragon Eternity, a browser-based MMORPG from Q1 Online, has now moved from closed beta to public testing. So now anyone can head over to the website and sign up to play. Being browser-based, the game doesn’t require any installation, and it’s free-to-play. Dragon Eternity puts a firm focus on PvP or player versus player action, [...]

November 22, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Skyrim patch is on the way

Skyrim patch is on the way

Skyrim was released last Friday and pretty much everyone into RPGs and video games rushed out to buy it. Reviews have been pretty much glowing, with a Metacritic average of 94% to 96% depending on which format you’re looking at. We’ve already been playing the sequel to Oblivion and can indeed confirm that it’s an [...]

November 16, 2011 | 1 Comment More
Star Trek Online going free in January

Star Trek Online going free in January

We already knew Star Trek Online, like many massively multiplayer online games of late, was going free-to-play. But now we know the exact date on which the event will occur. Stardate January 17th of next year, to be precise. Which is a Tuesday. And the new build of the game will be coming across from [...]

November 11, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Batman: Arkham City dated for PC

Batman: Arkham City dated for PC

Those keenly awaiting the PC version of the acclaimed Batman: Arkham City need wait no longer – at least for a release date. That’s because Warner Bros has now dated the game on the non-console format, and it’s due to arrive on November 25th on shelves in a game store near you. That’s just two [...]

November 8, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Paradox announces Magicka Collection

Paradox announces Magicka Collection

Fans of Magicka – or moreover, folks who missed out on Magicka – take heed, because a complete edition of the game is coming out. If you’re not familiar with the Paradox Interactive published title, Magicka is a tongue-in-cheek Norse flavoured action RPG in which four wizards try to take down the bad guys with [...]

November 2, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Doom 3 source code release imminent

Doom 3 source code release imminent

It’s coming like a Cacodemon hissing down a dark corridor, as we knew because John Carmack had already announced the release of the Doom 3 source code was due to happen this year. And indeed now Rage has been unleashed on the world, to a slightly mixed reception, id Software’s founder Carmack has confirmed via [...]

November 1, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Halo: CE Anniversary launch trailer out

Halo: CE Anniversary launch trailer out

A high-definition launch trailer has been pushed out for the upcoming game, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. Gametrailers is hosting the exclusive version of the trailer for the remastered version of the classic shooter which is due out in two weeks time. Take a peek at it here. It’s a minute and a half long and [...]

October 31, 2011 | 0 Comments More
LA Noire: The Complete Edition arriving November

LA Noire: The Complete Edition arriving November

Rockstar has announced that LA Noire: The Complete Edition will be arriving on the PS3 and Xbox next month. It was already announced for the PC back in September, arriving on November 11th. The Complete Edition will emerge on consoles a week later on the 18th. The complete version includes the original game, of course, [...]

October 21, 2011 | 0 Comments More
The Secret World developer diary video released

The Secret World developer diary video released

The Secret World is an upcoming MMORPG from Funcom, the producers of Anarchy Online and Age of Conan (which recently went free-to-play). And it’s a massively multiplayer title which has quite a few online gamers hot under the collar, as it sounds quite different from your run-of-the-mill MMOG in some respects. Even if the title [...]

October 17, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Skyrim completed in just two hours by QA tester

Skyrim completed in just two hours by QA tester

It’s now less than a month until the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim bursts forth in all its role-playing goodness onto PCs, Xbox and PS3 consoles across the land. Skyrim is about to go gold – to all intents and purposes it’s finished – and there’s a tradition at Bethesda when it comes to their games. [...]

October 14, 2011 | 0 Comments More
New Men In Black video game out spring 2012

New Men In Black video game out spring 2012

Here come the Men In Black, the defenders of our galaxy and smartly dressed, mind-zapper wielding terminators of extraterrestrials with extreme prejudice. And as you’re probably aware, in May next year the film Men In Black 3 is set to open, in 3D of course. Naturally enough, where there’s a film, there’s an official game [...]

October 13, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Lineage II coming to Europe as free-to-play

Lineage II coming to Europe as free-to-play

NCsoft has announced a partnership with Innova (who run the Lineage II servers in Russia) to bring the game to European servers. The European version will launch along with the Goddess of Destruction expansion, and the game will be free-to-play, a model an increasing amount of MMOGs are adopting. This year, Conan, Star Trek Online, [...]

October 12, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Nightwing DLC unveiled for Batman: Arkham City

Nightwing DLC unveiled for Batman: Arkham City

No, Batman: Arkham City isn’t out yet. The highly anticipated sequel to the hit Arkham Asylum is actually released a week on Friday, but that hasn’t stopped Warner Bros unveiling another piece of DLC for the game. So Nightwing fans, prepare to be excited, because this pack revolves around the man himself, and will be [...]

October 11, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Disciples III: Resurrection now out

Disciples III: Resurrection now out

Kalypso has announced that its turn-based tactical RPG, Disciples III: Resurrection, is now on shelves across the UK. Think Heroes of Might & Magic, but grittier. The game sends players to Nevendaar, with the rather novel concept of leading an army of the walking dead rather than dispatching the decaying shufflers. The army in question [...]

October 10, 2011 | 0 Comments More
GameCity 6 organises Legend of Zelda record attempt

GameCity 6 organises Legend of Zelda record attempt

GameCity, if you’ve not heard of it before, is an indie video game festival which takes place at the end of the month in Nottingham city centre. And at the sixth GameCity this year, in honour of the 25th anniversary of Zelda, a world record attempt is being organised. Gaming records are becoming bigger news [...]

October 10, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron game announced

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron game announced

Activision has announced a new Transformers game for the Xbox and PS3, the Fall of Cybertron. It’s the follow up to the War for Cybertron, which was released in June 2010, with this game slated for an autumn 2012 launch. The latest instalment of Autobot versus Decepticon action is currently under development at High Moon [...]

October 7, 2011 | 0 Comments More