Diablo III Beta: Stay A While And Listen
Charles and Steven from Player Affinity’s PC department got some hands-on with Blizzards action RPG Diablo 3. Did it hold up to their expectations?
Charles and Steven from Player Affinity’s PC department got some hands-on with Blizzards action RPG Diablo 3. Did it hold up to their expectations?
Bioware’s Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO got its update 1.2. Here’s our rundown of the new Legacy system and other features.
The Walking Dead is Telltale Games’ newest project, based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman. The game is set to be released in episodes, much like the comic book was. The first episode arrives on April 25th 2012, though the game was originally intended to be released in 2011. Telltale Games have produced some awesome games of late including: Law and Order: Legacies, Back to the Future, and Jurassic Park. If their previous games are anything to go by, this episodic game version of The Walking Dead is going to do Robert Kirkman proud.
On the Shoulders of Sleeping Giants aims to raise awareness to what could be a ‘sleeper hit’ of an upcoming game, movie, television series, or comic. Usually these works have a new installment on the way and their predecessors were fantastic executions into the medium, but for whatever reason the initial work has gone slightly unnoticed by the bulk of the masses. This OtSoSG looks at The Witcher 2 and Risen 2.
In March, Game, the UK’s largest retail chain for gaming, entered administration. Although it is now out of administration, Game had to close 277 of its UK and Ireland stores; losses of around 40% to the entirety of its work force. New owners now say there will be no further closures, but with the company in heavy debt and the market seeing a massive shift towards online/digital distribution; what will the future hold for Game and Gamestation?
Video games have often been admonished for not having enough diversity; civil-rights activists have correctly noted that their protagonists tend to be caucasian heterosexual men. In recent years, developers have begun to correct this, offering minority protagonists, along with the option to choose your character’s sex, or have homosexual romantic subplots. Unfortunately, there is one minority group that has been consistently ignored or abused by the gaming industry; the Transgender. Yet, there have been more transgender characters than one might think, dating back decades.
We PC gamers can be smugly assured that we have the best hardware; our gigantic hard drives, state of the art graphics cards and laser-precise mice give us a clear edge over console gamers. But what about the games we play? Admit it, we all get console envy from time to time when some new game comes out only for Xbox or Playstation. Games like the visual novel and puzzle game Catherine.
The White house announced the creation of a new Department of the Federal Government to regulate video games and other forms of electronic entertainment, as well as provide a rating system that will assist parents in determining which games are suited for their children, and to assist the public in remaining abreast of video game news.
Bioware announced today in a press release that the original Mass Effect is on tap for a remake this year. Don’t expect the same game though, says Bioware, as they plan for a number of surprises, but some of those surprises were accidentaly revealed when Casey Hudson appeared on the French talk show “Le Jeux” this weekend.
Tera takes the fight beyond your typical whack-a-mole monotony with enhanced aiming, dodging, and tactical timing to create intense and rewarding combat. Unlike other MMOs, you can use your controller or keyboard and mouse to control the action like never before. With all the depth you expect from a traditional MMO, plus the intense gratification of action combat, Tera changes all the rules.
