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 [...]
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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 [...]
Final Details of the New L4D DLC
When a campaign poster appears you know Valve are going to release something soon. Dated for October 5, The Sacrifice DLC will coincide with the final part of the webcomics. For the hardcore fans the comic is being treated as the official canon, with the DLC being a pick your own ending deal. So far we already know [...]
Starcraft II Making Sales Records Already
Blizzard have announced that over three million fans ‘zerged’ to buy Starcraft II within a month of its release, making it one of the fastest selling Real Time Strategy games of all time and the best selling PC games in 2010. This large number of sales is helped by its simultaneous worldwide release in North America, Europe, South Korea, Australia, New [...]
Mass Effect 2 Shadow Broker DLC on the Way
Bioware has announced the next piece of DLC for Mass Effect 2, called ‘Lair of the Shadow Broker’, will arrive on September 7 for 800 MSP for Xbox 360 and 800 BioWare points for PC. The add-on will give players the chance to recruit Liara T’Soni as a party member on her hunt for the Shadow Broker and the man [...]
Cataclysm Gets a Collector’s Edition, Still Not Dated
Cataclysm, the latest expansion for World of Warcraft, may have the tentative release date of sometime this year but at least the details of its collector’s edition have been revealed. Although no price has been given as of yet, the pack looks set to include the usual CE suspects: A 176 page Cataclysm art book, [...]
Let Off Some Steam, Quakecon Sale
From August 12 to 15 it’s QuakeCon, the Woodstock of gaming, so to celebrate Valve are holding a Steam sale on all Bethesda Softworks and id Software titles. The jewel of the sale is the 27 game Quakecon 2010 pack including titles such as Fallout 3: GotY, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Doom 3 and Commander Keen. [...]
“New DLC available at the Borderlands Bounty Board”
Details of the fourth DLC for Borderlands may have been leaked slightly last week but now it’s official – there will be a fourth addition called ‘Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution’. The planet of Pandora now faces yet another threat, that of the small robotic kind. Our treasure seekers find themselves trapped in a war between Hyperion Corp [...]
The One with Hellboy, Vampire Slayers and Lt. Commander Worf
The apocalyptic glitz and glamour of Fallout: New Vegas wouldn’t be right without a large voice over cast filled with stars would it? As per every Fallout game Ron Perlman lends his voice as the narrator, hopefully this time making more of an appearance than in Fallout 3. Along with him is Kris Kristofferson playing Chief Hanlon, a grizzled soldier (is there any other kind), [...]
Sequel to Arkham Asylum to Appear in Autumn 2011
Arkham City has been announced as the name for the sequel to last summer’s smash (maybe even a kapow) hit featuring the world’s greatest detective. The title is expected to grapple its way onto shelves for Autumn 2011 for Xbox, PC and Playstation 3. Following the chaos at Arkham Island in the last game, the inmates have been housed in Arkham City, the [...]
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