Gamers have been looking forward to getting their hands on Diablo 3 since it was first announced in Paris at Blizzard’s 2008 World Wide Invitational. Since then Blizzard has announced all five of the game’s playable classes and also shown off the game’s Player Versus Player Arena Mode. With this much information about the game out, it’s almost suprising that Blizzard has kept so quiet about a release date.
The internet is once again alive with rumors that suggest a new game in the Call of Duty franchise will be announced soon. There has recently been a lot of buzz about a possible reveal at the Activision Blizzard first quarter conference which took place yesterday, but in the end almost no new information was given away, other than Activision saying we will be told more about a new Call of Duty soon (probably referring to E3). But another story, which originated from the UK Official PlayStation Magazine, suggests that the new game will in fact be Modern Warfare 3 and the magazine even goes as far as giving it a release date of November 8 of this year.
This month’s big shooter, Brink launches in just a few hours, but if you need something Brink-ish to tide you over until the midnight launch, here are a few games that have similar features. Best of all, one of the games on our list is free, so if you broke the bank on your Brink pre-order you can still find something here to help you kill time.
Recently, EA released it’s earning estimates for the previous fiscal year, as well as it’s predictions for the next. The company forecast that the highly anticipated MMO,Star Wars: The Old Republic would be released sometime in the second half of 2011, though there could be an “outside chance” that it will be delayed into the first quarter of 2012.
Valve is taking it’s sweet time creating Half-Life 2: Episode 3, so fans are eager for any hints at all aboutwhen it will come out, and what sort of experience it will impart. So when Gabe Newell, while discussing Portal 2, mentioned that Portal 2 would “probably” be the last isolate singleplayer experience, Half Life fans became jumpy, since Half-Life is very story driven. When asked to clarify this statement, Newell responded:
These girls may look like they’re made of sugar and spice, but they’re actually made of suppressed rage and hot lead. Decades ago, the idea of a violent young woman struck pure terror in the hearts of our sexist forefathers, but now-a-days, deadly teen girls are a symbol of girl-power coolness, and cliché-subverting action-comedy. They also provide gamers a chance to see which video game developers employ lots of creepy old perverts in their art department.
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Darkness II is a first-person shooter and horror title being
developed by Digital Extremes; is based upon a comic book of the same
name. The game serves as the sequel to 2007’s title The Darkness,
and will not be tied to Starbreeze Studios—the development body
behind the first game. It features the story of Jackie Estacado, a
young mobster in the Mafia who was possessed by an entity known as
“The Darkness” and who now, harnesses the ability to summon the
demons or “Darklings” to protect the ones he loves. Now he is
thrown into the middle of a mob war as the result of an unprovoked
attack on his family and is unable to dispatch the thoughts of his
deceased girlfriend. Jackie must use his powers once again to
discover the source of The Darkness itself and to survive the horrors
it conjures.
