Category: News
World of Mercenaries Enters Closed Beta
City Interactive, the developers behind the upcoming free-to-play FPS World of Mercenaries, have announced that the gamer has entered closed beta. If you happened to be one of the lucky few who were able to snag a beta key via the games website you can enter it into steam and begin playing. World of Mecenaries […]
Twitter Becomes #38job Fair For 38 Studios/BHG
In the wake of the announcement of the closing of Kingdoms of Amalur developers 38 Studios and Big Huge Games, a large number of gaming professionals took to Twitter to post notices of job openings in the industry under the hashtag #38jobs. Companies such as Epic Games, Microsoft, Bethesda/Zenimax, Insomniac, Blizzard (with a reported 110 […]
Fall of CyberTron DinoBots Trailer
High Moon Studio’s next Transformers game, Fall of Cybertron, brings the Dinobots into the fray. In this latest developer diary describe the origin of Dinobots is explained along with how they fit into the Transformers canon. Did you know that the Dinobots came about because some of the early transformers scanned prehistoric earth for new […]
Diablo III Breaks Sales Record
In a press release earlier today, Blizzard Entertainment announced that the launch of Diablo III has been the most successful of any PC game to date. In the first 24 hours, 3.5 million copies were sold at retail, with an additional 1.2 million copies acquired through Blizzard’s one-year promotional World of Warcraft commitment. Through the […]
Bioware Previews Next SW:TOR Content Update
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 […]
Dead Island GOTY Edition Announced
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 […]
PAYDAY: The Heist and Left 4 Dead Collaboration Announced
Overkill Software’s PAYDAY: The Heist has long been compared to Valve’s Left 4 Dead. PAYDAY is basically L4D where the protagonists are a bunch of criminals rather than survivors, and the zombies have been replaced by policemen. The distinctions between the two may blend even further after the announcement of a “co-operative” initiative between PAYDAY […]
Reenter The Vault With Borderlands 2 Ultimate Edition
Borderlands 2 will be receiving not one but two special editions 2K Games and Gearbox Studios have announced. If you’ve ever needed a reason to reenter the vault one more time the Deluxe Vault Hunter’s Edition and Ultimate Loot Chest Editions might give you more than enough reasons to return to Pandora in search of […]
Jax Brings In Nearly Half A Million Dollars
To update you on a previous story, Riot Games has announced that at the completion of their fundraiser on Friday, over $480,000 came in due to the participation of over 140,000 contributors, “100 percent of which will go to Make-A-Wish America and Make-A-Wish International in Joe’s name.” This fundraising plan by Riot mirrors one they […]
Ubisoft Titles On Sale All Weekend On Steam
Ubisoft’s vast PC library will be up for sale during various points this weekend thanks to Steam. Every day this weekend Ubisoft will be featuring a different franchise, with each game in that respective franchise a whopping 50 – 75% off. If you can deal with “always on” DRM, then this might be the time […]
New Rainbow Moon Screenshots!
So there is this new turn based RPG coming exclusivly to the PSN Rainbow Moon, the game looks akin to Final Fantasy Tactics. So this could be very interesting, a turn based RPG with an epic story and world for me to discover? Who knows promising games have broken my heart before, so for the […]
Halo 4 cover revealed
The cover art for the highly anticipated Halo 4 was reveal by Microsoft yesterday in a random giveaway of sorts. Sending 32 pieces of the cover attached to emails to lucky fans, it took members of the Halo Waypoint Forums 67 posts before getting an end result no one was disappointed with.
Diablo III Downtime Trends on Twitter, Enrages Gamers
Diablo III is surely one of the largest game launches we’ve seen in 2012. This could explain not only why the game seems to be everywhere online but why the complaints of players have been heard all around the internet. The game has not even been available for 24 hours (in North America) and already […]
Capcom Decides To Step Back On DLC Approach
Capcom, the most popular developer for people to hate when the words “downloadable content” are mentioned have decided to reevaluate their approach when it comes to releasing DLC for their new games. Particularly their on-disc DLC that have fans upset over. Notably the 14 characters that hackers detected on disc of Street Fighter X Tekken. […]
Tomb Raider Delayed Until Q1 2013
Were you looking forward to getting your hands on the reboot of Tomb Raider this year? You’re going to have to wait a few more months as Crystal Dynamics announced that Tomb Raider will miss its intended Fall 2012 release window. Instead the game will be arriving at some point in the first quarter of […]