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Mini-Retro: Rise of the Triad

Approaching the monastary under the cover of night, Andrew Bryant prepares to unleash hell.

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She sells Sea Shells – BioShock 2 Viral

BioShock 2 has been an enigma since its big reveal as a reward for finishing the PS3 version (you know, that version that never existed despite evidence to the contrary). Now, ahead of its release later in the year, the marketing juggernaut has stirred from the proverbial depths (probably from the barnacle-encrusted house it shares […]

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Titanic Struggle – UT3 Titan Update released on PC, PS3 delayed

The promised Titan update for the PC release of Unreal Tournament 3 has gone live alongside patch #4 which takes the game to version 2.0 (with the latter presumably required for the former) and is available over Steam or via manual download (mirror 1 | mirror 2) if you haven’t registered your retail key with […]

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Pittsburgh Ho! – Fallout 3: The Pitt DLC dated *Updated*

Bethesda have announced the release date for the next Fallout 3 DLC.  March the 24th is the day we will all be able to don some slave clothes and infiltrate the raider city of Pittsburgh. Whilst we pray it turns out better than Operation: Anchorage, check out Eurogamers preview of the pack. *Update* A separate […]

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Whipping up a storm – Stormrise on PC to be a DX10/Vista only effort

PC Games Hardware have posted a short interview with Project Lead Artem Kulakov of The Creative Assembly.  Stormrise is a 3D RTS game for console & PC with a sci-fi leaning, as opposed to the companies previously historical efforts. The interview is one of a technical leaning and carries the revelation that that the game, […]

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Carmageddon & Burnout, sitting in a tree – Armageddon Riders trailer

It’s been a while since we’ve had a Carmageddon game (a fact that is due to continue, as the last anyone heard about the series was when SCI canned #4 a few years ago). Leave it too the eastern european devs to take it in hand and make their own guarenteed crazy amalgamation of everyone’s […]

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Industry News PC

Capcom ♥ PC… Srsly! – RPS talks to Svensson

Rock Paper Shotgun recently had a chat with Christian Svensson, vice president of strategic planning @ Capcom. Whether this chat involved Meer & Rossignol drawing up alongside Svensson in a van with blacked out windows, leaping on him with a potato sack and bundling him away into a dark dank room is, as yet, unknown. […]

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In Soviet Russia, game cans YOU! : WiC for Consoles binned

Ubisoft seem too have taken the decision to abandon release of World in Conflict and its imminent Slavic-focused expansion Soviet Assault for the current gen consoles, stating that they are ‘not planned for release at this time’.

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D.E.M.O. for H.A.W.X.

Tom Clancy’s High Altitude Warfare eXperimental squadron are getting a shakedown in the form of a Dynamic Example of  Moderated interactiOn (see what I did there?). Available for Xbox 360 & Playstation 3 via their respective networks and PC from one of your favourite download repositories, the 1.2GB demo features 2 missions, 2 game modes, […]

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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 […]