2007-06-18
RACE: Caterham Launches Early - And Free! - On Steam
Valve's digital distribution platform just gets better and better! After they spoiled us with the free re-release of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch and Half-Life 2: Lost Coast for Radeon graphics cards owners (story), today they are offering us yet another fr ... (more)
2007-06-18
Tomb Raider: Anniversary Goes Episodic On Xbox 360
Eidos have finally dropped the "no comment" act today, as they confessed their plans to release Tomb Raider: Anniversary on the Xbox 360 later this year. This goes to confirm earlier rumours sparked by an unexpected ESRB listing clearly showing five di ... (more)
2007-06-15
Codemasters Goes Through Big Changes, Gets £50 Million
A month that began with a seemingly minor change of "corporate identity" for Codemasters (notice the new logo), turned out to be a huge turning point in the British company's 21-year old history! Their previous logo, dating back to 1990, was not the on ... (more)
2007-06-15
World in Conflict Plans Xbox 360 Invasion
Plenty of games going (multi-)multi-platform these days... Aside from the rumoured Metal Gear Solid 4 on Xbox 360, Tomb Raider: Anniversary on Xbox 360 and Assassin's Creed on DS, we saw SoulCalibur IV being confirmed for the Xbox 360, Tunguska for the ... (more)
2007-06-15
Sega Rally Also Gets Green Light For The PSP
Not only is Sega Rally (Revo) coming to the PSP as well, but the developer behind this portable version is none other than Bugbear Entertainment - if the game FlatOut rings any bells... Their current project, FlatOut Ultimate Carnage is ... (more)
2007-06-15
EVE Online: Revelations II Free Expansion Next Week
Once again confirming the theory that the ludic universe is continually expanding, the devs from CCP are frantically preparing for the public release of Revelations II this coming Tuesday. This will be the seventh free EVE Online expansion, ever since ... (more)
2007-06-14
LotR Online Gets First Free Update, Shores of Evendim
Turbine's identical announcement from yesterday (for North America) is mirrored today by a Codemasters communique heralding the release of the first free content update for LotR Online in Europe as well. Called "Book 9: Shores of Evendim", it comprises ... (more)
2007-06-14
Secret Files: Tunguska Adventuring On Wii, DS
Contrary to what most critics thought about the original PC version of Tunguska, our review from last year shed a pretty favorable light over Fusionsphere's adventure game, which turned out to be one of the more pleasant surprises in 200 ... (more)
2007-06-14
America's Army: True Soldiers Marching On Xbox 360
Just in time for the 232nd anniversary celebrated by the U.S. Army today, Ubisoft announced a new America's Army game set to invade retail in Septemer 2007. Its codename is America's Army: True Soldiers, and the only platform it will be deployed onto i ... (more)
2007-06-13
Prince of Persia Classic Returns Today On XBLA
We only got to mention it in passing recently, but now we finally have the chance to dedicate a well deserved news to Prince of Persia Classic - the remake of the old Prince game from 1989. And that's because Ubisoft will release it today via Xbox Live ... (more)
2007-06-13
SimCity Societies Officially Announced, First Screenshots
There's no more need to wait for those GFW cover-story scans we were looking forward to last week, because Electronic Arts has now officially announced SimCity Societies as the next instalment in Will Wright's classic city-building franchise. And we al ... (more)
2007-06-13
Shadowgrounds Survivor Spin-off / Sequel Announced
For a budget-priced title, last year's Shadowgrounds was a pretty good action game, and one that went straight to the hearts of old-school fans of Alien Syndrome, Crusader: No Remorse and other futuristic shooting-spree games from ages past. Encouraged ... (more)
2007-06-13
Requital Combat-RPG Picked By Excalibur
The Russians from Primal Software and Akella are it again. After announcing the futuristic action game 2025: Battle for Fatherland a few days ago (story), they are making the news again with another game - this time set in a more ancient ... (more)
2007-06-12
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 And Overlord Demos
Since both the game and the movie that spawned it were released last month, it was about time Disney offered us the demo version for Pirates of the Caribbean 3 - more officially known as Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (even tho ... (more)
2007-06-12
John Carmack Reveals New Game Engine, id Tech 5
Of all the places, and of all the gaming events we might have expected id Software to reveal their next big thing, they chose the most unexpected one: the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that opened its doors this week, in San Francisco. S ... (more)
2007-06-11
The Agency Spy-Themed MMO Announced By SOE
Following the renaissance of spy movies (and mostly TV series), we are witnessing a very strong comeback of spy-themed games as well. And we're not talking about the Carmen Sandiego kind of classical games, but big-budget productions like Pandemic's Sa ... (more)
2007-06-08
Assassin's Creed Coming In November, No DS Version In Sight
Except for a few more "no comments" kindly issued here and there, Ubisoft continued to keep a tight lip with regard to the possible Nintendo DS version of Assassin's Creed, speculated earlier this week. And the company's latest press release also bears ... (more)
2007-06-08
2025: Battle for Fatherland Announced By Akella
Akella, one of Eastern Europe's esteemed veteran game development and publishing companies, celebrated 14 years of existence yesterday, since their establishing in 1993. But instead of dwelling on memories past for too long, the Russians got straight b ... (more)
2007-06-07
Diablo 3 - The History (And Future) Of A Rumour
Now that things are settled with StarCraft II, the award for the most rumoured Blizzard game is passed on to Diablo 3 (or Diablo III, if you like). Whether it will be a new hack'n'slash RPG, or a MMORPG as was speculated before the first BlizzCon in 20 ... (more)
2007-06-06
FIFA 08 Next-Gen Gameplay Features Announced
They figured it out. Finally, EA figured out how to make the football stadium crowds less ugly in their FIFA games! And to think that the answer was so simple, all this time: just turn off the bloody lights, so that nobody will see them. And voila, no ... (more)