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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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Play ball! – TF2 Scout Update Approaches *UPDATED*

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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Fallout 3 – Operation: Anchorage Review

Andrew Bryant steps out of the radioactive post-apocalyptic frying pan and into the freezer.

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Left 4 Dead Survivor Pack Details & Guide

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 […]

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ROBOT! Re-Ensemble!!! – Robot Entertainment picks up where Ensemble left off

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 […]

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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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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 […]