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Vietnam(?) Black – Call of Duty: Black Ops announced, teased

Despite the debacle at Infinity Ward (26 employees and counting), Activision have pushed on with Call of Duty: Black Ops, in development at Treyarch. The seventh entry in the astronomic series ‘could’ be set in Vietnam, the Cold War or somewhere else – We’re honestly not sure and the trailer doesn’t really give enough away […]

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Play The Secret of Monkey Island SE… RIGHT NOW!!!

We kid you not…  For the low, low price of absolutely nothing, you too can play the first 20 minutes* of The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition RIGHT NOW, in YOUR BROWSER of all places. Seriously, we’re cutting our own throats! (oh, wait, wrong game).

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Retro Fangasm – XCOM coming back

XCOM is coming back *happyface* There is no hyphen in the name *sadface* 2K Marin are developing it with assistance from Irrational 2K Australia *curiousface* There’s a strange (almost retro) screenshot below and a press release after the cut *happyface* It’s a FPS.  *over-reactingface* More as we know it!

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SOS New York – Crysis 2 Teaser Trailer *UPDATED*

EA premièred a teaser for Crysis 2 in Time Square meaning, predictably, at least one of the Internet’s vast contingent was available to film it and post it to YouTube. The trailer currently links to www.sosnewyork.com, which just has a timer (presumably counting down to some HD/expanded trailer goodness), but watch this space! Lets just […]

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Knock Knock – BBC announces episodic Dr. Who games

A decent Doctor Who game has been a long time coming, not least because until ~2005 the licenses owners considered it a lost cause. Out to rectify that, the BBC have announced that 4 episodic adventures will be released free* as companions to the new series starring Matt Smith. Developed by perennial British development house […]

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Pink Robots – War for Cybertron Multiplayer Footage/Release Date

Well it seems the multi-player component of Transformers: War for Cybertron is doing what we really want of the game – allowing us to make our own shooty robots that specialise in shooting other shooty robots. Purists may scoff at the classes being generic ‘Scientist’, ‘Leader’ and ‘Scout’ rather than stuff like ‘Seeker’, ‘The One […]

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Witching Hour – The Witcher 2 Debut

CDProjekt RED have released the debut trailer for their ‘mysterious new project’…  So mysterious, they even refused to acknowledge its existence despite a shareholder video demonstration leaking to the internet. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is coming to PC (and possible console) sometime late 2010/early 2011 and is the sequel to one of the […]

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Formula Vroom – F1 2010 Developer Diary

Codemasters have released the first of [insert number here] development diary videos for their upcoming ‘simu-cade’ of the top level of motorsport. Following on from F1 2009 (last years PSP/Wii game) F1 2010 signifies the first official F1 game on a Playstation since 2007, a PC since Grand Prix 4 in 2002 (ah, memories) and […]

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Portal 2 outed – In other news, Cake Lie still popular meme

Valve have been teasing us with an ARG since releasing mysterious new updates to their fantastic 2007 FPP (that’s First Person Puzzler for you in the back who arrived late – yes, I saw you come in) last month. Mysterious Transmissions…  Party Escort Submission Positions…  BSODs during GDC presentations… What could it mean?

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Tier One Beard – Medal of Honor trailer

Now it seems that Activision have culled all respect and/or skill from Call of Duty development, it’s down to EA to give us innovative Modern Warfare titles…  How ironic. A new Medal of Honor trailer, entitled ‘Tier One’ (after the cut) shows us most of what we know, in no particular order: Guns Combat Beards […]