Turbine have announced the next major expansion to Lord of the Rings Online will be paying Saruman a visit with the aptly named Rise of Isengard, appearing sometime in 2011. Considering that the fellowship have to deal with the White Hand forces in The Two Towers this comes as no surprise but nonetheless the prospect of a siege [...]
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Rumoured Sequel to House of the Dead: Overkill
The one thing my Wii gets used for is light gun games. It’s the perfect console for it. So rumours of a sequel to House of the Dead: Overkill is enough to get the Wii out of the cave it is stored in and actually use it once more. Sources at Nintendolife have hinted that [...]
European Lord of the Rings Online Free-to-Play Launches Today
While American LOTRO users have been sitting back and questing throughout Middle Earth without a care in the world, the EU lot have had to endure up until now. Codemasters announced that the reason for the delay was a contractual dispute that has been resolved, allowing them to press on with the release of the F2P [...]
Valve’s Tale of Two Scares
It’s Halloween and Valve are in the mood for horror. In typical fashion Team Fortress 2 has rolled out the carpets with its second spooktacular fragfest, but new to the scene is the Left 4 Dead’s version of Halloween. Who does it better then? Let us start with TF2′s update dubbed Scream Fortress running from October 28 [...]
Alan Wake The Writer DLC, Reviewed [Xbox 360]
An imagination gone wild can be a dangerous thing, something which Alan Wake finds out in the final piece of DLC, The Writer. In a similar vein to the preceding DLC, The Signal, you find yourself trapped in the dark place struggling to hold onto your sanity amidst a landscape of warped versions of past [...]
15 Stalkers There to Make Your Life Hell, Part 2
Day two of stalking and here’s the crack team of monsters that come from a nightmarish world. So lets cut to the chase and start with … 7) Resident Evil: Outbreak – Leech Man The Resident Evil series has a number of different stalker creatures though for the most part they all seem to be Tyrant clones. Leech [...]
15 Stalkers There to Make Your Life Hell, Part 1
A good game has to have a challenge, so what happens when that challenge is nigh unstoppable, ever-pursuing and would like nothing more than to use your head as a crude pillow/garden ornament. Sometimes it might be given an axe, sometimes an axe wouldn’t hurt it at all. More often than not these stalkers will be [...]
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Reviewed [PC]
There are very few recent horror games that actually go for all out scares. Around the time of Resident Evil 4 the action element took precedence over the horror resulting in hordes of undead that could easily be replaced with irate soldiers. Few developers understand how to provide even basic scares, whether it be Resident Evil 5′s gung-ho [...]
Left 4 Dead The Sacrifice DLC, Reviewed [360, PC]
After a month of comics, trailers and an attempt at a week of rolling updates two things were evident. First, the Left 4 Dead team shouldn’t try and mimic the Team Fortress tradition of teasing content each day mixed with humour as it simply doesn’t work with a game that is serious. Second is that the combo of the comic and the downloadable content does work, so well in fact that [...]
Are You Man Enough For The TF2 Mann-conomy Update?
Saxton Hale doesn’t do half measures. Between hippie beating and aerial battles with endangered species he doesn’t have the time to prolong weapon releases, so when given five class packs to release he’ll make damn sure they’ll burst onto your screen like a sack of angry tomcats. And behold the glorious chaos. Servers are flooded with people demanding to know how [...]
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