PC News

Mass Effect 3 Officially Dated

Bioware has released the embargo on the release date for their highly anticipated title, Mass Effect 3, now slated to appear on March 16, 2012 for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC platforms. Additionally, the Xbox 360 version is slated to ship with Kinect support. No, you won’t be controlling your Shepard with motion controls (not yet, anyway), but you will be able to control your squadmates using unforseen voice recognition brought on board by the Kinect’s unique hardware and software.

CCP unveils details for DUST 514

Fan’s of the massively online space game EVE online have long been awaiting news on CCP Games next project “DUST 514”. At Sony’s E3 Press Conference this year, CCP unveiled details of the games release. 

Blizzard Hires PlayStation 3 Specialist for Diablo 3

Since Diablo III was announced in 2008, there have been rumors that it would be ported to platforms other than the PC.

Now there’s even more reason to believe the rumors as evidence suggesting that Diablo III will appear on consoles continues to mount.

Origin Will Be the Only Online Retailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic

Electronic Arts, in a move to centralize their PC products, has announced and released a new digital download service called Origin, effectively replacing the EA Store. Predominantly a digital service, Origin will also allow users to place orders for boxed copies across platforms.

Deadline For PAX Prime Submissions Approaches

The whole industry is preparing for the avalanche of geekdom that is E3, but remember that it’s not the only gaming convention that should be on your radar.  The west coast Penny Arcade Expo is coming, and deadlines for panelists and developer submissions will soon be upon us.  And if you work as an independent game developer, don’t forget about Indiecade as well.

Weekend Deals Thursday June 2nd

Here’s your chance to play one of the hottest games of 2010 for free!  And there’s a bunch of other great games on sale this weekend as well, including a spectacular sale on the Limited Edition of one of this year’s best games. Plus some short term Daily Deals to grab right now before they’re gone.

StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Details Revealed

The first details of the second game in the StarCraft II trilogy have finally been released. StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm will continue the story that started in Wings of Liberty
and unlike the first game, you will take control of Sarah Kerrigan, The
Queen of Blades. While the first game’s single-player centered on the
Terran race, Heart of the Swarm will switch the focus to the Zerg and this will lead to a huge change in the style of gameplay for the game’s single-player.

Apparently Everquest 2 Is Still A Thing

Remember back in 2004 when we all played games like Lineage, Final Fantasy XI and Diablo 2 on our dial up modems, and thought we were having fun? Yeah, well there was a game called Everquest 2 back then and, according to Sony’s press release, Everquest 2 still exists, and they’re still making stuff for it.

Dead Island Box Art Revealed

Well, we don’t have new information about the actual contents of this box, but this is what the box that your copy of Dead Island will come in looks like.  The publisher Deep Silver has been slow in letting out real information about their zombie apocalypse resort game, so we’ll have to be satisfied with this latest little morsel

New Developer Diary For The Secret World

Shhh… Don’t tell anyone but the developers of The Secret World have released a new Secret Developer Diary.  It’s five minutes of in-game footage, FMV cutscenes and interviews with Ragnar Tornquist the Sr. Producer & Creative Director along with Joel Bylos the Lead Content Designer, and Dag Scheve the Lead Writer discussing the clever premise of the game, and how that story will be told.