What's improved in Battlefield 3?
Why this FPS won't suck.
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2K Games producer Seth Olshfski has provided an insight into just how extreme the violence will be in the upcoming FPS, The Darkness II. For those of you unfamiliar with the original Darkness game, it follows the exploits Jackie Estacado, who just happens to have two evil tentacles attached to his shoulders. If you want graphic descriptions of what Jackie can do with these tentacles, read on. Read More »
Some enterprising hackers have successfully created 128-player servers for the Battlefield 3 Beta. Players using the Beta are only supposed to have access to the 32-player Operation Metro map in Rush mode. However, some servers have been appearing offering the Metro map in Conquest mode... with 128-player support. Read More »
The release of BioWare's highly anticipated MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic is drawing ever closer... but it's still months away. What the heck is a Star Wars fanatic supposed to do in this time? Watch youtube compilations of Jar Jar Binks' worst one-liners? Well, that's one torturous option. Another is to head on over to SWTOR's official site and check out the new galaxy map. Read More »
A Game of Thrones: Genesis, the RTS game based on the immensely popular book and TV series, has just been released. But developer Cyanide has revealed it's also working on an RPG-style game that will more closely follow the events and lore of the original story. Click through for more details. Read More »
Blizzard's controversial "auction house" feature for Diablo III could be getting some very close attention from the South Korean Government. Dual Shockers reports that the Korean National Assembly has just received a report from the Game Rating Board that argues features like the auction house are tantamount to gambling, and thus, are in direct violation of Korean law. Read More »
Rockstar has provided some details about how the trademark slow-motion, time-warping "Bullet Time" feature of previous Max Payne games will be incorporated into the latest installment. Speaking to IGN, art director Rob Nelson said Bullet Time would be upgraded with more detail, realism and individually modeled bullets. Read More »
Croteam have again knocked back the release date of its upcoming FPS, Serious Sam 3: BFE. The game is now due for release on November 22nd, months after the original release schedule of "summer". The reason for the delay? The team wants to make Serious Sam 3 "perfect". Read More »
Mojang, the developer of Minecraft, has laid out its defense for its copyright lawsuit against ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda. ZeniMax is taking Mojang to court over an alleged trademark infringement, claiming Mojang's upcoming game "Scrolls" sounds too similar to the Bethesda IP "The Elder Scrolls". Well, Mojang's solicitors say the case is simple: gamers can tell the difference. Read More »
EA has released a new Battlefield 3 video specifically exploring the game's social browser, Battlelog. The browser acts much like a BF3 Facebook page, but it also tracks statistics, features leaderboards and, if you're a PC player, includes a server list and the option to create "parties". Full details after the jump. Read More »
Eurogamer has posted a lengthy article looking at the prevalence of video game piracy on the PC. The report features interviews with various industry figures, who each give their opinion on how bad PC piracy really is. Reinhard Blaukovitsch from Sony DADC says that up to 80% of all PC games are illegitimate copies, while Christian Svensson from Capcom puts the figure as high as 90% for certain titles. Read More »
Valve are so nice. So friendly. We really should buy them a cake. Why? Because the developer is about to give out free DLC content to all owners of Portal 2. The 'Peer Review' DLC will include a new co-op test track featuring everybody's favorite test bots, P-Body and Atlas. Read More »
Sega has released an 11-minute developer walkthrough of its upcoming FPS, Aliens: Colonial Marines. The video showcases some of the action players can expect to see when the game is released next year, including a mech with a flamethrower and copious amounts of green alien blood. Read More »
Our sister site FilePlanet has five new civilizations to download for Sid Meier's Civilization 5. On offer are African kingdoms, the Byzantine Empire, Native American nations and the Dutch. Yes, Holland may have lost the soccer World Cup last year, but now you can push the Orange nation to some semblance of victory... even if it is in the realm of world domination, not the world game. Oh, and the mods are free. Free! Click through for more information. Read More »
So, you want to be a PC gamer huh? Welcome to the Big Leagues! You're about to enter a whole new ballgame, where amazing graphics are limited by only one factor -- the size of your wallet. While PS3 and Xbox 360 fans bicker about which console looks best, the PC continues to blast ahead of the competition, offering ten times the raw performance of either. In our three-part guide, we explain how all this cutting-edge technology works, and today's article looks at one component of the holy trinity of hardware – the graphics card. Read More »
Edmund McMillen is no stranger to the grotesque. The indie game designer's earliest work is slathered in a drippy sauce of profane creepiness that makes the gore-drenched sadism of Super Meat Boy seem tame. It's from this dark, turbulent womb of roiling blackness that McMillen and his cohorts birth their latest project. The Binding of Isaac is a demented dungeon crawler that borrows familiar elements from gaming classics like The Legend of Zelda, Robotron, and Rogue, stitching them together into a freakish patchwork automaton. It'll no doubt turn your stomach, but that's a big part of the draw. Read More »
Infinity Ward talks cheat protection, higher system requirements, possible mod support and more.
Can CCP right the wrongs of the last expansion pack? We find out from one of the leading community members.
One Battlefield vet looks at all that's new and improved in the Battlefield 3 Beta.
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