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Virals-R-Us : THQ made a Rhino Tank

Basically, it’s what it says on the tin. THQ, in cohorts with Games Workshop and Tanks-a-Lot, made a real Space Marine Rhino tank and then set about demolishing (admittedly worthy of such destruction) cars. [youtube 6PEU_201IfI] Need I say more?  Find out how the Rhino was built here, if that sort of thing turns you […]

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“Are you man enough to fight with me?” – SF4 Japanese Intro released

Everyone remembers the Street Fighter 2 intro… Basically, it was two average joes have a boxing match in the middle of the street before the view pans up a massive skyscraper, revealing the Street Fighter logo.  It was a ordinary and benign introduction to the absurdity that existed under the hood, what with the rubber […]

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Prototype NYCC footage

Prototype is finally nearing completion, what with its June release date refreshingly looming yet not too far off. It went quiet half-way through development and everyone thought it had been a casualty of the Actizzard merger, but its still going strong at Radical Games (not to be confused with Free Radical, the UK developer saved […]

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The Evolution of F.E.A.R.

Mere days before its release, Monolith have released a trailer which charts the evolution of both the game engine and the plotline of the F.E.A.R. series (as per usual, completely ignoring the add-on packs). Find it, along with a healthy dose of scares, after the break…

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Left 4 Dead Survival Pack, SDK coming this Spring

Valve have sent word that the Left 4 Dead Survival Pack will be hitting PC and 360 this Spring (there’s no concrete date yet – this is Valve Time we’re talking about). The survival pack includes a new multiplayer mode funnily enough called Survival (no details yet on what that entails, we’re waiting to hear […]

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The source of the fire was, erm, Source!

How many of you out there in intarweb-land seriously thought that, when setting zombies alight in Ravenholm, the Source engine might one day be used to power a simulation of fire safety & how to safely evacuate a realist model of the Computer Sciences Department in the University of Durham that has recently been engulfed […]

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Glory Days – Classic LEC Boxart converted to poster form

**WARNING – PERSONAL OPINION BELOW** I’m sorry, unless you’ve played at least one of the many SCUMM adventures from LucasArts (whether via the original disks, way back then, or SCUMMVM), you’re not a true gamer… Unfortunately, that’s a debate another time…  For now, lets make do with the fact that some enterprising chap on LucasForums […]

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Hellgate: London cast up the River Styxx

Looks like today’s foot of snow in London was as much trouble for denizens of hell as it was for all the bendy buses… It’s been a while coming, despite efforts to save the game and turn it into a free-to-play effort, but the plug was finally pulled on the European servers yesterday, as outlined […]

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Holy Good Looking Trailers: Arkham Asylum ‘Breakout’ Trailer

Everyone has seen at least one Batman film – whether it’s one of the recent cinematic masterpieces by Chris Nolan, the malkavian eccentricity of Tim Burton’s efforts, the 60’s kitsch of the original movie or that shit that Joel Schumacher churned out. Whilst all the focus has often been on these celluloid adaptions (and too […]

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine Game Debut Trailer

Those lovable scamps at GameTrailers have the world exclusive debut trailer for the game of the film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the celluloid prequel to the much loved X-Men films (well, apart from The Last Stand – they should have waited on Singer for that one). There’s no actual gameplay footage in the trailer, just a […]