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Killing Floor goes commercial

Tripwire Interactive have announced that the popular Unreal mod, itself based on their Red Orchestra modified Unreal 2.5 engine, will be released on Steam (and, presumably, other digital platforms) in the near future. Whilst not specifically developed by Tripwire themselves (who are beavering away on an as-yet un-announced project), they are providing support to the […]

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Valve adopt DLC – monetising vs. progress?

The PC has been largely free of the blight of the monetised morsels of gameplay that is Downloadable Content.  Largely down to the lack of a standardised platform with which to distribute (and collect payment), ala. the current games consoles, nobody has really managed to get a firm grip on the masses who prefer to […]

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Will Beta be less buggy?: Alpha Protocol Trailer

I’m hoping the title is a misnomer, given Obsidian’s past form (which honestly gives Troika a run for their money!), you can’t blame me for being apprehensive. Regardless, Alpha Protocol is looking good – Bourne really rejigged the spy genre (hence why they copied the style for the Craig-powered Bond films) and this looks too […]

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Gorbachev, Tits and Aliens: Stalin vs. Martians Music Vid

Games that wear both their pretensions and sense of humour on their sleeves are always welcome in my book and none does it more-so than Stalin vs. Martians (or: what really happened on the eastern front during the Second World War). To celebrate the games near-release, the developers have collaborated with Russian metal band ANJ […]

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Do-gooders in Tights?: Stunning Arkham Asylum gameplay footage

We already know Batman: Arkham Asylum is 99.9% likely to be fucking awesome.  Despite being the debut game from Rocksteady studios, all footage released of the game so far has ticked almost every box on the ‘reasons why Batman is just so damn great’ list. Now we get some more substantial gameplay footage.

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Burnout × Red Faction ÷ NFS: Most Wanted?: Split/Second debut

Kudos to RPS for this one. Disney have stepped into the arcade racer fight with Split/Second, a racing game that differentiates itself from the crowd by offering various methods of defeating your opponents by bringing the world down on them, literally. Knocking chunks off freeway overpasses, blowing out storm drains and dropping girders from cranes […]

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Taking the Pitt: Planet Fallout talks to Jeff Gardiner

Planet Fallout has an interview with Jeff Gardiner regarding the second DLC pack for the post-apocalyptic FPSRPG. The article mostly fills us in on details we knew already, but Bethesda’s senior producer does provide more detail about the arena fights on offer and points out that the player will be able to return to the […]

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F.E.A.R. 2 DLC – insert ‘afraid of DLC’ joke here

Pretty much as it says on the tin here…  WBIE have announced DLC for F.E.A.R. 2 on all platforms (well, all it was released on…  because giving Wii owners F.E.A.R. 2 DLC would be stupid, wouldn’t it). Not really much to go on re: content or price, but it will be available in April and […]

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Mini-Retro: Rise of the Triad

Approaching the monastary under the cover of night, Andrew Bryant prepares to unleash hell.

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She sells Sea Shells – BioShock 2 Viral

BioShock 2 has been an enigma since its big reveal as a reward for finishing the PS3 version (you know, that version that never existed despite evidence to the contrary). Now, ahead of its release later in the year, the marketing juggernaut has stirred from the proverbial depths (probably from the barnacle-encrusted house it shares […]