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Bohemia get shirty over Codemaster’s Flashpoint Marketing

You just gotta love trademark disputes… The whole kerfuffle surrounding F.E.A.R. 2 springs too mind, what with its WBIE vs. Vivendi jiggery pokery and community naming competition. Now Bohemia Interactive (Operation Flashpoint, Armed Assault, VBS1) are shouting from the rooftops that Codemaster’s proclamations of Flashpoint 2 being ‘the official sequel’ to their original product despite […]

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Raising the Titanic? – UT3 Titan Pack Dated & Details

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 […]

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MIR-12 Speaks – Singularity Viral media

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.

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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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Red Dead Resurrected – Redemption announced

Rockstar have announced the sequel to their western 3rd-person shooter, Red Dead Revolver. Built on the same engine that powered Rockstar Table Tennis & GTA IV, Rockstar San Diego (nee Angel Studios of Midtown Madness & Midnight Club fame) are back developing the game and it’s due on the Xbox 360 & PS3 this fall. […]

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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 […]

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EA still has the Need for Speed!

Following the rumours and subsequent strip-mining of EA Black Box, nobody really knew what was happening with the Need for Speed series. Now, Blues & Eurogamer are carrying word that the series is progressing in a 3-pronged revamp on every format under the sun.  The 3 products, each developed by a different developer (none of […]