3AM Games (an offshoot of Frogware, best known for their Sherlock Holmes adventure games) and Gamesplanet Lab (a new crowdfunding and digital distribution platform) have teamed up to bring us a Magrunner – Dark Pulse. My first peek at the videos and screenshots reminds me of both Portal (Valve cult hit gone viral) and Running Man (an 80’s Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.) The game starts off with the protagonist, named Yoshi, and his robotic dog Newton in the...
The first summer beta event for Sony’s Free-to-Play FPS shooter, Dust 514, is happening June 29th. If you’ve already been invited to the closed beta, then you’ll be able to access the game during all of the beta events over the summer. If you have yet to register, go here www.DUST514.com/beta. There will be several rounds of beta invites over the summer, so if you don’t make the cut the first time, don’t worry. Dust 514 will be taking over...
With any successful game, there is a tiny amount of fear when a sequel is released. I am a huge fan of the first Borderlands, and as excited as I was to hear that Gearbox was working on Borderlands 2, there was a little part of me that was afraid the sequel wouldn’t live up to the original. When I played the game at PAX East though, all those fears were put to rest. Borderlands 2 looks beautiful. The comic book come to life graphics style of the original game is...
New screenshots and an alpha video have been released for Primal Carnage and gamers are salivating at the chance to choose a side in a battle between humans and pre-historic beasts in a crazy mixture of first and third person gameplay. The new alpha footage has been put together will real in game shots that show the impeccable maneuverability of the humans with the brute force that the dinos provide. Primal Carnage has the opportunity to be one of the huge sleeper hits...
Steam and Coffee Stain Studios have announced that Sanctum will be participating in Steam’s Free Weekend promotion. This means you can download and play Sanctum for absolutely free for the duration of the promotion. Beginning today until May 7th you can experience first-hand the frantic FPS/Tower Defense action. Sanctum is a fresh take on the tower defense genre and places the player right into the frenetic fray with tight first-person shooter gameplay mechanics...
Here’s your first look at the gameplay of the third installment of the Crysis franchise coming in 2013 for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. Read here for more details and pre-order info.
The beautiful FPS from last year, Crysis 2 has a sequel coming in 2013. Crysis 3 has been announced and will be using the latest in Crytek technology, the CryENGINE 3. The players will once again assume the identity of Prophet, the protagonist from the Crysis. Crysis 3 is set in the year 2047, with Prophet returning to New York City to find it under the control of the Cell Corporation. Cell has set up large Nanodomes which they say is for the betterment of the people, but is...
Like I said in my write up of the live demo, something seemed to be missing, that “oomph” from the live demo. Don’t get me wrong the aesthetics and sound were spot on and fantastic. The iconic sound of the pulse rifle remained and just the general look, gave no doubt about it being a game based in the Aliens universe. Brad and myself stayed away from any harsh judgments and figured we would know more as soon as we got our hands on the game for ourselves. We...
Brad Beach and myself attended PAX East 2012 and there were only a handful of games we felt we had to check out, Aliens: Colonial Marines was one of those games. We were shuffled through back door into a small, dark room with two TVs on the wall and thankfully a comfy floor, as we were exhausted. We were presented with a live solo demo of Aliens: CM and also told that if Gearbox did their job correctly that even “Alien 3 would be a better movie,” as this game...
Upcoming first person shooter Primal Carnage has a lot going for it right now. Although the games only in Alpha, it’s gameplay looks very promising. In a Predator vs. Aliens-esque where you control both humans and dinosaurs in a Call of Duty meets Gears of War Beast mode. As much as I normally abhor indie games, this one looks pretty fucking amazing. “It’s quite simple – we’re stoked on this game,” said Ted Lange, executive producer of Reverb Publishing...
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