Crytek have announced that the latest iteration of their CryENGINE – cunningly titled CryENGINE 3 – is now up for licensing! The new iteration of the engine focuses on optimisation for (*spit*) console platforms without sacrificing the crisp detailed anti-aliased edges of those jungle leaves. So, if you have your own personal Quake-Life 7 or […]
The 1.8 patch for Dawn of War (colloquially referred too as ‘The Last Stand’ patch) is live on Steam, bringing with it (unsurprisingly) the Last Stand game mode along with a load of other tweaks too the game. The mode allows up to 3 players (playing as Space Marine Captains, Ork Mekboys or Eldar Farseers) […]
Gearbox are still trying to convince everyone that Borderlands isn’t just a shooty Diablo. Their latest method is to reveal the in-depth skill trees, which they’ve done through the medium of Flash.
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Ryo’s Back…
2009 has been all about delays – it’s getting hard to keep track of the number of publishers who have bottled it and pushed games (including titles that would probably sell millions anyway) into fiscal Q1 2010 for fear of having to compete with Activision’s beast that is the latest Call of Duty. Now, surprisingly, […]
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Create Your Own Dragon Age Character
Bioware can’t seem to do no wrong – I can’t think of many who don’t love their work with both license properties (Forgotten Realms, MDK2, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic) and their in-house IPs (admittedly more-so Mass Effect than Jade Empire). Alongside their upcoming foray into the MMO genre (Star Wars: The Old […]
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Fable 2 nibbles available now
Fable 2 has been sliced into pieces for release over Xbox Live and the first is available for free! Barry really liked the game back when he reviewed it last year, so people who haven’t touched it yet have no excuse not to dip in and try it now. According to Major Nelson, the episode […]
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Dawn of War 2 Content Bonanza
Dawn of War 2 seems to be getting all the loving lately – the initial release wasn’t overly hot, what with the awkward campaign and Games for Windows: Live bollocks, but several patches down the line and things are much improved. The recent ‘There is only War’ update dramatically rebalanced the game, the imminent Last […]
Valve have finally released Louis, Francis, Bill and Zoey back into the wild in a new official campaign for Left 4 Dead. Set between (fan favourite) No Mercy & Death Toll, Crash Course attempts to copy L4D2’s practice of linking the narrative of the campaigns by explaining how the duo trio erm, four survivors end […]
Just like the humble adventure game, dungeon crawlers are seeing a bit of a resurgence of late – obviously there’s Diablo 3 on the horizon, which like all things Blizzard is set to swallow any indie bystanders in its all-consuming wake of fan-gush, but set to arrive ‘before it’s done’ are both a sequel to […]