May 22, 2012

Red Orchestra 2 GOTY Edition Announced

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Daniel Shannon

Tripwire Interactive has just announced that Red Orchestra 2, the WW2 shooter that won PC Gamer’s “Multiplayer FPS of the Year,” is getting a Game of the Year edition. Everyone who already owns the game will be able to download the GOTY edition free content pack later this week. Red Orchestra 2 will also be free to play this weekend on Steam.

Read on for details on how Tripwire Interactive hopes to rope in fresh meat for the Stalingrad meatgrinder while appeasing Red Orchestra veterans who think the sequel is too fast paced.Read More

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Bioware Previews Next SW:TOR Content Update

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Andrew Minott

Star Wars: The Old Republic is being prepared for its third major update since launch, titled “Allies.” The primary feature of this update is a group finder, which will allow players to queue up for a group activity (Missions, Flashpoints, etc.) based on their role and have the game itself find companions for you. Bioware is also adding in more features to the Legacy system, first introduced in patch 1.2, which is a leveling mechanic that affects all of your characters on a server with rewarded perks and abilities based on your cumulative progress across all those characters.

Follow the jump for a brief video hosted by the game’s director, James Ohlen.Read More

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Dead Island GOTY Edition Announced

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Daniel Shannon

Deep Silver has just announced a Game of the Year edition for Dead Island, Techland’s immersive “jumping on zombie heads with friends” simulator. The GOTY edition comes with all of Dead Island’s DLC: Ryder White, Bloodbath arena, and “The Ripper” weapon blueprint. People residing in North America will be able to pick this up on June 26th. Everyone else will have to wait until the sixth of July. The Game of the Year edition will come out for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3.

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Gamersgate’s Ad-Supported Free Gaming Service Launches Soon

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Daniel Shannon

Gamersgate is launching VOID, a new ad-supported service, on the 28th of this month. VOID will offer people the chance to play free PC games at the cost of having to sit through a commercial every once in a while. Hopefully, the advertising is more palatable than the insufferable McDonalds ads I had to sit through between levels when playing a free copy of Far Cry a few years back.

We don’t have a list of which PC Games will be available via VOID just yet, but we’ll keep you informed.

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Panzers assemble for latest Ironfront Trailer

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Daniel Shannon

Deep Silver has just released a new trailer for X1 Software/AWAR’s upcoming tactical shooter Iron Front- Liberation 1944. The new trailer focuses on the might of German panzertruppen. Unfortunately, the trailer doesn’t include any footage of tank battles, which I suppose makes it softcore tank porn. Still, there are some impressive looking tanks rolling about. Read on for the trailer.Read More

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DmC Devil May Cry delayed until January 2013

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Kirk Williford

Another 2012 title has bit the dust and slipped into 2013, as Capcom announced today that their upcoming reboot of the Devil May Cry franchise will ship on January 15th, 2013.

In addition to the console version’s release date, Capcom confirmed that a PC version of the game is in development, but it’s release is only “later in 2013.”

View the full press release after the jump.Read More

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Aliens Colonial Marines Delayed Until 2013

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Interest in the Aliens franchise has peaked in recent weeks with the release of Ridly Scott’s in-universe prequel Prometheus only a few short weeks. It looks like the next big project involving the franchise, Gearbox Studio’s Aliens Colonial Marines, won’t make its anticipated Fall 2012 release. Instead the marines will deploy against the Xenomorph horde on February 12, 2013.

Along with the announcement of the delay Gearbox Studios released a brand new trailer for the game alongside a statement from energetic and charismatic CEO Randy Pitchford.Read More

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The Amazing Spider-Man Web Rush Trailer

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Rae Michelle Richards

Beenox’s latest Spider-Man game, a film tie-in for Sony’s upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man, has a brand new trailer highlighting one of the new mechanics – the Web Rush. Web Rush allows you to slow down time and make split second decisions like dodging an oncoming enemy or using your webshooters to tie-up a foe. It can even be used to pull of aerobatic feats while web-slinging around the environments.

This mechanic really interests me, to my knowledge this is the first time a developer has tried to incorporate Spider-Man’s “Spidey Sense” into a game. For all of you non-nerds out there, Spidey Sense is essentially a form of pre-cognition that allows Spider-Man to avoid oncoming danger a fraction of a second before it occurs.

Slow motion certainly sounds like the right away to go about, when it comes to this particular super power. Decide for yourself by watching the new Amazing Spider-Man trailer in the embedded player.Read More

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