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New Star Trek Gamescom Trailer
Space-questing is more enjoyable with a friend at your side. Even if it’s Spock.
I love me some Star Trek. Announcing a new trailer along with concept art and screen shots probably pleases me more than it will anyone else. I’m OK with that. Regardless of how I may or may not feel, the new media shows off dynamic co-op multiplayer gameplay with Captain Kirk and Spock. Also, Gorn.
Darksiders 2 Review: Death Deals With Old Frustrations, So Do You
“So, you seriously need to keep those things on at all times? Is that how it works?”
I didn’t get a chance to play the original Darksiders, but that might’ve been because all the reviews touted it as a ‘mature version of Zelda’, which is a certifiable method for me to not buy your game. This isn’t the space to justify my antagonism toward Zelda, but I was more than happy to set aside my feelings about that unique brand of action/puzzle/platformer for just a moment to enjoy Darksiders 2. As Death, one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, you feel far less like a harbinger of destruction and agony and far more like the Prince of Persia if Todd MacFarlane had a pass at him. That’ll probably be fine for you, but underneath all this hacking, slashing, and blood-letting, the creaking bones of this game made me weary.
Sleeping Dogs Review: Big Trouble In Little China?
Hong Kong. The seedy underbelly of the Asian underworld
Square Enix – publisher of megagames like Hitman and Tomb Raider – is set to release its Chinese gangland action game soon and we have had a couple of opportunities to get our hands on it. I talked about it at E3 and then the wonderful folks over at Square sent us a review copy of the game so we could share our opinion with all of you… And that’s what we’re best at!
Shadowrun Online Kickstarter Nearing Completion – Needs Your Help!
Insert funds, Get Shadowruns. It’s that simple.
The kickstarter for Shadowrun online has less than 24 hours left and they need you’re help. They’ve raised about 75% of the funds they were looking for and are making a huge push to pull in that last quarter. Check out the release, below, and get on this one. IT’S SHADOWRUN, DUDES!!!
Epic Completes People Can Fly Acquisition, But Is There Anyone Left?
It looks kinda like Painkiller, right?
You may not have played Painkiller, but you should (seriously, it’s super cheap on Steam, yo). Despite being eight years old, it’s still an incredibly imaginative Doom clone in which you slaughter dozens of bizarre beasts in a jumble of weird levels, like haunted houses, military bases, and opera houses. It’s a product of eastern Europe’s quirk and it set Polish developer People Can Fly on the high road to success. But no longer.
City of Steam Preview And Alpha Key Giveaway [UPDATE: Giveaway Over!]
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The ruggedly handsome Tiffix out in the suburbs!
It appears that, lately, we’ve become awash in free-to-play games. Let’s face it: people want to play for free, those same people are getting over the idea that ‘free’ means ‘garbage’, and with rich gaming engines like Unity, small developers are able to build epic experiences that only large teams could build years ago. Enter City of Steam, a new freemium web-based MMO (read: not tied to Facebook) that takes place in a sort of post-steampunk world. And guess what? We’ve giving away access for the game’s next Alpha wave next weekend.
Kalypso Media Announces Alien Spidy – A New Platformer With Bite
Flying saucers full of spiders? Yikes!
See what I did there? Kalypso Media dropped us a press release today, in which they showed us their upcoming platformer called Alien Spidy, a side-scrolling festival of 8 legged goodness which, to me, looks amazing!
Ghostbusters: Paranormal Blast Review (iOS)
I ain’t afraid of lookin’ like a fool. Yes I am.
Ghostbusters: Paranormal Blast takes busting ghosts to a whole new level. Thanks to the technological magic of augmented reality, fans of the coolest movie franchise can now trap actual free floating aparitions “virtually” anywhere.
Why Penny Arcade’s Kickstarter Didn’t Work
The Kickstarter’s been an interesting adventure, but it’s obviously way short of their intended goals.
With only five days left, Penny Arcade’s Kickstarter experiment to ditch their ad model and free up their time to work on Penny Arcade content looks to be coming to a somber, underwhelming finale. Despite the webcomic empire’s popularity, the epic fanfare, and coverage by Forbes and Fortune (our site excluded out of modesty), it’s been passed up left and right by other Kickstarters for the crowd’s dollar and has spent most of the month-long campaign barely matching the contributions of its first few days. There’s still a great chance that it’ll ramp up at the last minute and they’ll still walk away with at least three quarters of a million dollars, but the lack of excitement around the fundraiser is crisp in the air. It’s clear from here that there just wasn’t enough planning in this venture to reward the company the full million dollars they dreamt of. So what went wrong?
