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5 Total Conversion Mods To Love

I’m not sure about you but my gaming backlog is a mile long and shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon. More than that, and as I continue to [...]

Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time Will Also Be Coming To Vita

Sony has announced that the upcoming PS3 title, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, will also be heading to PlayStation Vita. It will be released at the same time, which is [...]

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Blizzard Apologises For Diablo III Launch Problems, Delays Auction House

Blizzard issued a statement on Wednesday apologizing to all gamers who purchased Diablo III since its May 15 launch but were unable to play it smoothly (or at all) due [...]

Torchlight 2 Beta: First Impressions

Complaints and berating aside, having (strike: tried to) played Diablo 3, I must concede it’s undoubtedly an awesome game that easily does more good than it does wrong. Having said [...]

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FIFA 13 Devs “Hugely Critical” Of Themselves, Still Worried About PES

FIFA’s line producer David Rutter recently spoke with CVG in a FIFA 13 interview, revealing a number of interesting things about the franchise from the developers’ point of view. Rutter [...]

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Indie Review: Anomaly Warzone Earth

Famously described as a tower defence game put in reverse, Anomaly Warzone Earth (or AWE for short) aims to please RTS fans with great strategic components and a beautiful world. [...]

Diablo III: Blizzard To Address Game Breaking Bug, Server Collapse

Blizzard is currently in the process of dealing with a mountain of problems with Diablo III, which just launched yesterday and is already causing mass outrage. Firstly, to get to [...]

Preview: DiRT: Showdown

Name: DiRT: Showdown Platforms: PC, PS3, Xbox 360 Genre: Racing Developer: Codemasters Southam Publisher: Codemasters Racing Worldwide Release Date: 25-29 May 2012 Local (SA) Release Date: 25 May 2012 (expected) Expected Prices: PC – R361, PS3 – R499, 360 – R499 Slip, slide, [...]

Blizzard Is “Not Experimenting” Yet With Console Version of Diablo III

Blizzard has expressed many times in the past that it wants to do a console version of Diablo III, but it has now confirmed that the studio hasn’t even begun [...]

Arcade Review: Fable Heroes

I have this unspoken love for the Fable franchise. While the games are not that great, they still have some sort of charm and flair. It’s a nice game to [...]

Watch Resistance: Burning Skies In Action

News has been scarce on Resistance: Burning Skies but we know enough to set you up for this here trailer. It’s a Vita title that takes a slightly different path [...]

Max Payne 3 PC Version Won’t Use GFWL

Gifwil. Probably not that catchy, I’d say. So for future reference I’ll just abbreviate “Games for Windows Live” as “Gwaffle” for no apparent reason. It’s like waffle. Anyway, Rockstar has [...]

Avengers: Battle For Earth Announced

Remember when that domain name avengersbattleforearth.com appeared and linked Ubisoft to a potential game to tie-in to the movie? Well, it turns out that Ubisoft and Marvel are in fact [...]

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Square Enix Confirms Hitman: Absolution Release Date!

Square Enix has revealed that the highly anticipated Hitman: Absolution will be released on November 20 this year, while the mini game and pre-order bonus Hitman: Sniper Challenge will be [...]

Dragon’s Dogma Launch Trailer Is Pretty Hot

It’s an action-adventure title from Capcom and it has dragons in it, what more would you want to know about Dragon’s Dogma? Okay, a lot more actually so here’s our [...]

Black Mesa’s Carlos Montero Explains Black Mesa: Source Missed 2009 Release

Half-Life fans are still anxiously waiting for news about Black Mesa, the independent remake of the original game in the series. While the game has mostly been in the dark, [...]

Hitman: Absolution Releasing In September?

Unfortunately, fans are still waiting, seemingly endlessly, for a Hitman: Absolution release date to be announced. Now, it look as though various online retailers decided to take it upon themselves [...]

Assassin’s Creed III Has Mayans!

Gosh but I seem to be doing an awful lot of Assassin’s Creed III news lately, maybe it’s because the game is starting to take the shape of something that’s [...]

ZeniMax First Wants To Make “A Good Game” Rather Than A “Good MMO Or Elder Scrolls Game”

Paul Sage, the creative director for The Elder Scrolls Online, has recently told Game Informer that players will still get to experience individual heroism in the upcoming MMO, just like [...]

Portal 2 Perpetual Testing DLC Out Now

Valve’s free DLC for Portal 2 titled Perpetual Testing Initiative is now available for PC and Mac. For those who don’t know, the DLC is basically Portal 2′s own level [...]

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Preview: Diablo III

Can you actually believe it? Diablo III is set to release in less than a week, ending a nearly 12 year long wait for one of the most anticipated RPG [...]

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Starhawk Map Packs To All Be Free

LightBox Interactive has announced that all future DLC map packs for the PS3 exclusive multiplayer shooter, Starhawk, will be completely free. This is being done to avoid player division according [...]

Assassin’s Creed III Won’t Ignore Slavery

It’s something that we have in common with the US and many other parts of the world: a history of slavery. We can all agree that it’s the fault of [...]

5 Upcoming Games Worth Knowing About

BioShock: Infinite, Halo 4, Borderlands 2 and Resident Evil 6 to name but a few; these are the games we know, we’re excited for and that makes each day of [...]

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What Does Agent 47 Have In Store For Us?

There’s a big Hitman Absolution announcement coming on May 10 but what could it be? The news was conveyed via a poster which appeared on the game’s Facebook page and  [...]

FIFA 13 First Gameplay Details Out

If you want to be technical, amongst the first things we heard about FIFA 13 was that the players would look more realistic, which is great news. Now, at a [...]

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Finally An Assassin’s Creed III Gameplay Video, Sort Of

We’ve seen plenty of screenshots and we’ve seen a cinematic or two but what everyone has desperately been waiting for to pass judgement on Assassin’s Creed III is a good [...]

Indie Review: Trials Evolution

Following the success of its predecessor, Trials Evolution set out to prove something. That it can be bigger, faster and more extreme. Quite the tall order for a simple arcade [...]

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Crytek Talks Crysis 3 PC Version And Graphics

Crytek’s Rasmus Højengaard has stepped up to reassure PC gamers that their version of Crysis 3 will include PC-specific graphics features. Højengaard, when speaking to Spong, joked a little about [...]

Assassin’s Creed III: Ben Franklin Will Be More Of A Player Than An Inventor

When it was revealed that several key historical figures such as George Washington and specifically Ben Franklin people immediately thought back to previous Assassin’s Creed games with their portrayal of [...]