The much-anticipated Funcom MMO, The Secret World, is now accepting pre-orders. This game is set up to be an MMO experience like none other that I’ve currently seen before. You take control of a modern-day hero with various skills and powers, you choices are many and you character is fully customizable. This contemporary setting stands out in that everything, every nightmare and zephyr-dream, every secret organization, every myth and origin, is true. You will run...
Paradox Interactive (Magicka, Crusader Kings II) and Radioactive Software (Urban Empires) have teamed up to release a Third-Person Shooter/RTS game entitled Gettysburg: Armored Warfare. This game takes place in an alternate American Civil War setting and has up to 64 players at a time fighting to conquer four maps across various game modes. The visual style is distinctive as the technology is advanced beyond what they were using in 1860s America. Dirigibles and heavy...
A little known developer named Seatribe (Haven and Hearth) are working together with publisher Paradox Interactive to bring yet another free-to-play MMO experience to our cramped hard drives. Entitled Salem, this one will focus on a crafting system based on the old alchemy myth and survival in the New World. This game is set to frustrate even the most seasoned and veteran MMO players. The beta is open now and interested parties can register for it here.
Arrowhead Games Studio (Magicka,) along with publisher Paradox Interactive, are currently working on a new game entitled The Showdown Effect. Taking influence from games such as SolDat, Megaman X, and Super Smash Bros., we can expect a 2.5D platform-based fighter with an 80’s action hero style, fighting other players in various arenas with an assortment of weaponry, and skinnable characters to add flair. With classic modes like Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and the new...
The End of Days approaches…. Diablo III will be unleashed from the Burning Hells on May 15, 2012, and you can be ready to play the minute the servers go live by pre-purchasing the game digitally on Battle.net today. Beginning May 15, players around the world will be able to return to Tristram to discover the dark secrets of a fallen star and begin their quest to save Sanctuary from the impending demonic invasion. To secure your place as a barbarian, monk, demon hunter...
The land is a place of magic and mystery. Mages are powerful and benevolent beings who are looked to, not only for direction and wisdom, but also to rule over the lands they survey. One by one, the Mages came to realise that there is only one solution to the world’s perpetual and perennial problems, one Warlock to rule them all. The bond was struck and the test of might began between all the most powerful wizards in the world, who would become the Warlock? Nothing less...
War of the Roses, a multiplayer action game published by leading strategists Paradox Interactive, is currently under development and slated to be released in the third quarter of this year. On the surface the game seems to be somewhat similar to Mount & Blade, though with notable exceptions: Your control of a knight, rather than a commander, being the first and formost difference between the two games; the greater focus on multiplay being a close runner-up. In fact...
The critically-acclaimed iPad sensation, Defenders of Ardania, has been out on the iPad for a while now and is garnering the attention of strategy gamers everywhere. It was instantly recognized as a quality Tower Defence game with a twist, you control only one faction on a field full of other towers. You send your troops across the perilous paths of traps laid by your enemies and set down damage-dealing towers of your own as one of several unique factions making up the...
Showing off the barbarian Sacrier’s Blood and the clockwork Xelor’s Sandglass character classes, these videos give us a peek at the powers and feel of each of these options. Beautifully rendered, multiplayer Tactical RPG Wakfu by Square-Enix offers up much in the way of choice and strategic action, and the character art is so cute.. Kawaai! ^._.^ Wakfu on the web:
Valve co-founder, Gabe Newell, recently told Penny Arcade that, “Well, if we have to sell hardware we will.” This opens up some interesting debate about what a platform that fully integrates Steam, Valve’s digital distribution hub, would look like. Would there be integration into a current platform? How complete would such integration be? Would games even be playable on said platform? Valve answers these questions handily by stating that they will make...
