Mar
12
Bethesda sent us their latest cinematic trailer for Brink, their upcoming FPS. Watch, enjoy and don’t forget to tell us what you think in the comments!
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Not only has the Call of Duty franchise gotten so big that Activision announced the creation of a dedicated Call of Duty business unit, but that the franchise will be venturing past first person shooters in 2011. Sledgehammer Games, founded by Visceral Games’ Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey, will “extend the franchise into the action-adventure genre” in 2011.
Can the former Dead Space developers turn the Call of Duty franchise into a compelling action-adventure game? Let us know what you think in the comments!
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Usually rushed out of development with a focus on a quick way to monetize the system, free-to-play games often lack quality and most importantly, fun. And when free-to-play games finally get a lot of attention from their developers, more often than not, they end up being some sort of Farmville-like game on Facebook. And sometimes, they just flat out lack fun. That’s right, we’re looking at you Evony and many other other free-to-play games.
Free-to-play games have long been ignored, and not unjustly so, but it’s time that gamers take another look at them. And this time, take a look at the right ones. The good ones, like Alliance of Valiant Arms.
Find the Q&A after the jump!
Ever wondered what the ESRB has to say about the games it rates? You know, maybe a bit more than a letter, the word “Teen” and a phrase like “comic mischief”? If so, you’ve hit the jackpot! The ESRB has just finished rating Red Steel 2 and noted that it pushes the boundaries of the “T” rating itself. Try and read the excerpt below of the ESRB’s Red Steel 2 rating and not laugh. Go ahead. We dare you.
“During the course of the game, a female character with exaggerated-size breasts wears a low-cut shirt that exposes deep cleavage; the character’s breasts jiggle slightly during cutscenes (there are no comparable physics applied to male characters). The expletives “bada*s,” “punk-a*s,” and “dammit” can be heard in the dialogue.
Overall, the game’s highly stylized cell-shaded graphics blunt the sense of realism, increasing the fantastical nature of battle sequences; in some ways, the graphic-novel art style skinned with hand-drawn-like textures) lessens the impact of the violence—though the game is still considered a high-end Teen.”
Oh, the ESRB. You make us laugh. So, so hard.
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Jan
12
Everyone’s favourite horror first-person shooter Killing Floor by Tripwire Interactive has won a few awards this past week in the Voodoo Extreme 2009 Readers Choice Awards.
Last Week, Voodoo Extreme announced the winners of it’s 15 Readers Choice Awards some of these went to some pretty awesome titles Killing Floor being one of them.
Overall Killing Floor won awards for “Best PC Shooter of 2009″, “Best PC Game DLC of 2009″ and it also won a quite impressive accolade of “Overall Best PC Game of 2009″. Well Done to the folks at Tripwire.
Killing Floor originally a Unreal Tournament Mod was released in 2009 via Steam, because of it’s large following it was also released to retail in 2009 the game also boasts a very impressive SDK of which it’s large developer community utilizes very well with extensive community built maps and mods available.
Mihn Lee one of the original creators of Counter Strike and contributor to many other Valve projects such as Counter Strike: Source and Day of Defeat is working on a new FPS game called Tactical Intervention, Lee left Valve in 2006 because we wanted to create his own FPS and he has been working on TI ever since.
The game is focused on strategic team play and is being developed on Valve’s Source Engine it will be “A modern battle between terrorists and counter terrorist team” which sounds vaguely familiar.
Above are some recently released screenshots from the game, it will be available as a beta service in the first half of 2010.
Salem and Rios of Army of Two and the upcoming Army of Two: 40th Day invade London. We’re not exactly sure what they’re doing, but then again we have no problems with shenanigans.
Army of Two: 40th Day launches on January 12th in North America and January 15th in Europe for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
It looks like EA has caught a case of the “I-can-do-that-too!”s after seeing the success of the Call of Duty Franchise with Modern Warfare one and two as they have announced that the Medal of Honor franchise will be “leaving the WWII theatre and putting players in war-torn Afghanistan” in a 2010 re-imagining. The next Medal of Honor title may be a product of the “I-can-do-that-too!”s, but EA is going into development with all guns a blazin’.
Press Release: October 23, 2009 — Activision Publishing, Inc. and Valve today announced an agreement to power the PC version of Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, with a host of Steamworks features and offer the highly anticipated PC title electronically to the over 20 million Steam gamers around the world.
The highly anticipated title picks up immediately following the historic events of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the blockbuster that earned worldwide critical acclaim on its way to becoming the top selling first person action game in history. Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse.
All PC versions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will be powered by Steamworks, providing gamers with auto-updating, anti-cheat technology, Steam Achievements, and the recently introduced Steam Cloud.
“Steamworks will make it possible for us to have a closer connection to our fans, and enable us to support our community much more than ever before,” said Robert Bowling, creative strategist, Infinity Ward. “Steam is the hands down leader in offering a community focused experience on PC and the inclusion of Steamworks has allowed us to deliver the most feature-rich PC version to ever come from Infinity Ward, which at the end of the day will mean the most to our fans.”
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for PC will include 50 Steam Achievements, enticing players to train a local militia and be “Back in the Saddle” or infiltrate the snowy mountain side base and earn the “Cold Shoulder.” Fans may access the game from any computer. And through Steam Cloud, multiplayer game progress will be stored persistently and travel with the player.
“Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 may be one of the biggest releases in video game history,” said Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of Valve. “Having a game as significant as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 using the suite of back-end services in Steamworks is a signal to us that we’re making the right kinds of choices for triple-A developers like Infinity Ward.”
Beginning today Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is also available for pre-purchase via Steam. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is slated for worldwide release the week of November 8 at retailers and via Steam. “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2″ is rated “M” (Mature – Blood, Drug Reference, Intense Violence and Language) by the ESRB.
Steamworks is a complete suite of publishing and development tools — ranging from product key authentication to social networking services — offered free of charge to publishers and developers.
2K Games have finally announced the release date of the highly aniticipated sequel to Bioshock, Bioshock 2. Bioshock 2 will be hitting stores worldwide on February 9th 2010.
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