The War Z Colorado map trailer shows verdant forests of death
Late last week, Hammerpoint Interactive unleashed a video flythrough of its sprawling Colorado map for upcoming zombie wander-fest The War Z. Recurring undead haunts such as rusted, abandoned cars,...
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DayZ’s Rocket wants standalone alpha in November
DayZ mastermind Dean “Rocket” Hall already pledged his intention of releasing the standalone version of his hit open-world zombie-em-up “before the end of the year,” but in an interview with VG247, he...
View ArticleAssassin’s Creed 3 trailer shows Connor’s revolutionary arsenal
Whenever Templar- and teacup-shattering woodsman Connor presents his business card, it’s probably embossed with the honorary title of “walking armory.” The killer’s repertoire of deadly takedowns is...
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Ubisoft: “We want travel to not become a chore” in Far Cry 3
Motoring around Far Cry 2′s picturesque African landscapes delivered the brutality of a nation ripping itself apart through civil war to your windshield, but it also brought frustrating moments of...
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DayZ standalone screenshots show interior building decor, loud tablecloth
When the zombie apocalypse inevitably heaves into sight, it’ll sweep through the structures of civilization with remarkable gentleness. That might explain why the quaint abodes in the latest batch of...
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The War Z developer Hammerpoint “doesn’t mind” comparisons to DayZ
Some may assume that there can be only one premier open-world zombie apocalypse experience, and that Rocket’s standalone DayZ and Hammerpoint’s The War Z must be battling over its maggot-infested...
View ArticleFar Cry 3 gameplay video with commentary shows goat archery practice, sandbox...
Have you seen “the greatest explosive bolt ever”? No? How about the elimination of an entire mercenary camp using nothing but a machete, a camera, and a few poorly placed revolver shots? Of course...
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Assassin’s Creed 3 PC “will be less buggy” than console, says Ubisoft
In a Reddit AMA thread posted yesterday, development team members of Assassin’s Creed 3 assured that the PC version of Connor’s American vacation will include a new patch ironing bugs present in the...
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Far Cry 3 map editor gets its own trailer
If you pick up Far Cry 3 later this week and feel disappointed by the lack of skyscraping cliff faces from which to launch a jeep, then hold back your tears, because the open-world shooter comes...
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The War Z enters beta, expands map and adds new characters and items
We’ve already picked apart our spongy zombie delicacies over Hammerpoint’s alpha offerings of its open-world survive-em-up The War Z, but a reevaluation might soon be necessary as Hammerpoint...
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The War Z now available on Steam
After an alpha period we had mixed feelings on and a feature-laden beta update, The War Z shambles onto Steam today. The initial launch is being called a “Foundation Release” by developer Hammerpoint...
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DayZ creator Dean Hall on The War Z fiasco
Day Z creator Dean “Rocket” Hall. The War Z’s abrupt launch and subsequent removal on Steam prompted a strong reaction from the community over the Foundation Release’s strange name, missing features,...
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Assassin’s Creed III Tyranny of King Washington DLC releases February 19
The first part of an Assassin’s Creed III DLC pack exploring an alternate-reality America in which Washington crowns himself king comes out on February 19, Ubisoft announced today. For $10, grizzled...
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Arma 2 Complete Collection gathers all post-release content into one pack
It speaks volumes of the staying power of DayZ when it gets top billing in Bohemia’s new $40 Complete Collection pack for Arma 2. It’s a more extensive (and slightly more expensive) way of nabbing the...
View ArticleGrand Theft Auto IV mod takes Toy Story’s Woody for a trip to the big city
The complicated process of installing GTA IV mods is a perilous, comical adventure in itself, but pulling it off can add some memorable gaming and movie characters to Liberty City’s sprawl. With his...
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Avalanche CEO posts mysterious screenshot; is most likely Just Cause 3
What is Avalanche Studios up to? They’re strongly rumored to be working on a licensed video game adaptation of Mad Max: Fury Road, which is nice and all, but you know… Just Cause 3! Rumors continue to...
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Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag references Desmond Miles as part of a...
The first three Assassin’s Creed games are about Desmond Miles. Oh, you don’t remember? That’s fine. It’s easy to forget such a bubbling font of personality, even though we wouldn’t have controlled...
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Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag screenshots show lush jungles, lush beards
As revealed earlier this week, Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag is a very real thing. Hot on the sails of the popular naval battles from Assassin’s Creed 3, Black Flag charts the high-seas adventures of...
View ArticleAssassin’s Creed 3 Tyranny of King Washington DLC trailer shows magical eagle...
The upcoming second chapter of the Tyranny of King Washington DLC for Assassin’s Creed 3, named Betrayal, continues Ratonhnhaké:ton’s one-man assault against Washington’s forces. It’s about as far a...
View ArticleSaints Row IV announcement trailer takes leave of its senses
How silly is Saints Row IV going to be. Well, let’s look at what’s inside its announcement trailer. A guitar-shaped rocket launcher. This is quite silly. Superpowers. This is very silly. A...
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Saints Row 4 survey asks about possible Collector’s Edition swag
Deep Silver wants to include the players its decision-making process for the bonus items packaged in the Collector’s Edition of Saints Row 4. In a survey guarded by a pair of friendly-looking...
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Volition unconcerned about releasing Saints Row 4 near Grand Theft Auto 5
Saints Row 4 debuted last week with all the subtlety one might expect from a game with dubstep guns and rocket-launching guitars, and it’s eyeballing an August 20 release. That sets up a scant...
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PixelJunk Inc. out on Steam later this year for budding soup tycoons
The wide and surprisingly wild world of soup manufacturing caught our attention back in January with PixelJunk 1-6, the codename for Q-Games’ latest PC-fied take on its lovely console indie series....
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt first look – slaying giants in CD Projekt RED’s icy...
Geralt now has a horse! No, you can’t eat it. I know this is exactly what a brooding fantasy RPG anti-hero would want you to think, but Geralt really is misunderstood. At first glance, The Witcher’s...
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Watch Dogs preview — No GTA 5 on PC? No problem
‘ Hey GTA V, I think we need to talk. You should sit down for this. It’s just getting hard to keep waiting for you to commit to my platform and—look, I’ll just come out and say it: I’ve met a new game....
View ArticleAssassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag trailer takes to the seas, attacks everything...
Hoist the mainsail! Scuttle the jib! Other water-based activities! Stop doing them all, because a new Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag trailer has sailed into view, carrying a cargo of nautical...
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Saints Row 4 trailer throws a guy into a jet
The frequently ridiculous but always entertaining Saints Row series is continuing with Saints Row IV, due to arrive August 23. We’ve already gotten the details on the new “Commander in Chief” preorder...
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Just Cause 2 multiplayer mod dev explains a new game mode, shows customizable...
We’ve lauded the in-progress Just Cause 2 multiplayer mod before as an expression of the complete and utter chaos sandbox games are capable of. And, while the multiplayer add-on for the open world...
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New Witcher 3 screenshots show strange monsters, open world
New screenshots from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt have surfaced, giving us a closer look at CD Projekt RED’s upcoming open-world RPG. Geralt of Rivia is back, of course, and we see in the new shots the...
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Modding Saints Row is about to get a whole lot easier
The Saints Row games do not officially support modding – although that’s hardly stopped fans from cracking them open and making them the hard way. Well, things are about to get a whole lot easier...
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Watch Dogs trailer shows off the game’s Dark Souls-style multiplayer features
We know that Watch Dogs features Dark Souls-ish multiplayer features that will allow you to invade other players’ worlds to hack and mess around with their stuff (and be invaded in return), but now we...
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Saints Row IV refused classification in Australia, a first for new ratings...
The upcoming Saints Row IV has been “refused classification” in Australia today, effectively banning it from release, according to a press release from the Classification Board of the Australian...
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Retro City Rampage updates with mod support, (slightly) better graphics
Parodic 8-bit open world game Retro City Rampage has been updated with mod support and enhanced graphics. Not massively enhanced, mind. You’re not going to load up the game to be dazzled by a city...
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Just Cause 2 Multiplayer mod is back with another test weekend
The manic Just Cause 2 Multiplayer mod is holding another public test this weekend, after adding a selection of features sure to amplify the absurdity. Well, mainly one feature: improved hit detection...
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Here’s 10 minutes of Saints Row 4′s E3 gameplay footage
What does a game that got banned in Australia look like? Why, it looks like Saints Row 4—which is to say that this game is full of offensive purple suits. Here’s the in-game walkthrough that was shown...
View ArticleSaints Row 4′s Independence Day trailer shows a special sort of celebration
Getting refused classification in Australia isn’t Saints Row 4′s only achievement. It can now also take the title for most ridiculous Independence Day speech since, well, the film Independence Day....
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Saints Row 4 considered “end of that saga,” future games to go in different...
Saints Row IV is a game in which you play as a psychopathic president given superpowers while trapped inside a virtual reality city by aliens. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Volition are...
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Rockstar job listing hints at possible GTA 5 PC release
Every main GTA game has, after some form of delay, made its way to PC. There’s every reason to expect Grand Theft Auto V will do the same. But while you won’t ever hear Rockstar say that, you will be...
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GTA 5 trailer shows off its “sprawling satirical re-imagining” of Southern...
Rockstar have released the very first glimpse of Grand Theft Auto V as she is played. While previous in-engine trailers have introduced us to the game’s trio of characters, this time we’re getting our...
View ArticleJohnny Gat exposes himself to Saints Row 4
I won’t write up an entire biography of the fictional demigod of a man known as Johnny Gat, as it would end up looking like the scrawling of a mental patient. Normally, I’d be surprised to see someone...
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Saints Row 4′s San Diego Comic-Con panel reveals first DLC details
Just how many people does it take to think up a Dubstep Gun? That, and similarly off-the-wall questions were the subject of a San Diego Comic Con panel for Saints Row IV. In the month before the...
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New Watch Dogs trailer shows a powerful, hyper-connected Aiden Pearce
A new Watch Dogs trailer has me nodding my head at all the right moments: Trenchcoat, check. High-powered pistol, check. Noomi Rapace look-alike, check. Ubisoft Montreal’s upcoming open-world,...
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Saints Row 4 video shows 90 minutes of footage, comes with usual ‘giant...
Saints Row 4 – which as I understand is not a biblical rowing simulator, but rather an open world WTF-’em-up – got a big ol’ livestream the other day courtesy of developers Volition. See a man drive a...
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Saints Row 4′s full in-game radio tracklist to let you dance if you want to
Saints Row 4 was already pretty high on my list of things I absolutely have to own. While the demo version I played had some lackluster moments, the promise of a more absurdly tuned version of Saints...
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Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag’s huge open world will take half an hour to...
As multiplatform game development frees itself from the restrictions of the aging past generation of consoles, we’re going to start seeing some really cool stuff. Exhibit A: according to Ubisoft,...
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GTA 5 PC release date hinted at by Nvidia director [Updated]
Grand Theft Auto V steals its way onto the current batch of consoles next month, and from everything Rockstar have shown so far, it’s looking pretty good. A shame then, that a PC version still hasn’t...
View ArticleNew Watch Dogs video shows how to hack like a vigilante
A new Watch Dogs video deals with a fundamental—but still mysterious—aspect of the upcoming game, namely that the glass and metal devices so many of us carry around in our pockets could grant us real...
View ArticleAssassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag stealth video sneaks into view
Most of my attempts at stealth in previous Assassin’s Creed games look like something you’d see in an episode of The Three Stooges. Sure, I’ll mingle with a bustling crowd to pass a few guards, but...
View ArticleWatch Dogs footage shows open world events, multiplayer invasions
Ubisoft have released a 14 minute “vertical slice” of “completely systemic” Watch Dogs footage. Translation: Ubisoft have released a big chunk o’ video, showing off the open world shenanigans of Watch...
View ArticleTerraria 1.2 trailer dishes out some wizardry and witchcraft
Terraria developer Andrew Spinks announced last week that the 1.2 update will be ready (and free) on Steam on October 1, while promising a new trailer would soon be in our midst. This is that trailer....
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