Lots of sudden indie news out there… Firstly, Braid is coming to the PC via. Steam, Impulse and (unless I missed the announcement) a further un-named service (probably Greenhouse, see below) for the sum of $14.99/£9.99/€12.99 on March 31st (well, that’s the Steam date anyway). In addition, Hothouse Games, of Penny-Arcade Adventures fame, are handling […]
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Quake Live Beta… erm… Live!
In a case of doing what it says on the tin, John Carmack’s pet project that is the browser-based offshoot of Quake 3 has now officially entered Beta and can be played at the official site located here. Impressions will come later, at a time when playing it in a browser will not get the […]
It’s been a while, what with Left 4 Dead throwing a spanner into the works, but Valve are back on track with the Team Fortress 2 updates with The Scout Update. Just like The Heavy Update, information is being dripfed over the next week and this post will be updated accordingly. Skip the jump for […]
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Steam delivers Remnant to the PC
In what seems like a resurgence in love of the PC following Capcoms announcement that pretty much all their upcoming releases are coming to the PC, Square Enix are bringing their recent Unreal 3-engined Action RPG, The Last Remnant, to the PC on March the 24th via Valve’s Steam platform. Press release (& now trailer) […]
Andrew Bryant steps out of the radioactive post-apocalyptic frying pan and into the freezer.
Epic have started drip-feeding information about the mega update due in March. The update brings a shedload of maps, 2 new character models, nearly 60 achievements (courtesy of the games recent Steamworks update & the PS3 Trophy system) and a (literally) massive new mutator called ‘Titan’ which allows players to morph into Titans & Behemoths […]
Those lovable scamps at GameTrailers have the exclusive on the Survivor Pack add-on for Left 4 Dead (skip to the final chapter if you don’t care about the GTAIV DLC). There’s no footage of the new Survival mode (just lots of Dead Air & Death Toll Versus gameplay), but it turns out it is basically […]
Good Old Games, with assistant from Zone escapee Ed Zitron, have written up an editorial on Volition‘s Interplay swansong, FreeSpace 2. Read it here, then buy the damn thing for $5.99 and enjoy the best space combat sim this side of Tie Fighter.
Everyone was a bit miffed when Microsoft canned Ensemble Studios (alongside other successful setups) for what seemed like no reason. Now basically the entire team has split off into a third-party startup called Robot Entertainment. Their first job? Support and DLC for Ensemble’s Halo Wars, leaving the majority of people questioning what was the entire […]
Singularity has been a bit of a mystery for a while now. We all knew Raven Software were working on it, but nobody really knew what it was all about. Now the marketing machine is revving up to speed and we’re being bombarded left, right and centre.