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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is set to receive a massive update in the form of the 2.0 one, but the developer of the popular role-playing game, CD Projekt Red, will continue to support it a long time after the new patch.
CD Projekt Red is working hard both on the upcoming update 2.0 for The Witcher 2, as well... |
24 August 2011
02:40 GMT |
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The Witcher 2 update 2.0 brings quite a lot of new features to the role-playing game, including a brand new tutorial at the beginning of the story, which serves to address the many complaints received by developer CD Projekt Red about the steep learning curve that drove away many players.
CD Projekt Red is definit... |
23 August 2011
02:40 GMT |
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This was the week of Gamescom 2011, the Cologne, Germany based trade event which provides the European counterpart to the United States E3 trade show and we have quite a few news and on the scene reports gathered under our Gamescom 2011 label.We have Hands On and Off articles for games like: Mario Kart 7, Batman: Ark... |
21 August 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Sony had a consistent presence at this year's Gamescom event, including a large Sony Ericsson booth entirely dedicate to mobile gaming.Gamescom 2011 is about to close its gates in Cologne, Germany after four days of press conferences, demos, previews and launch events. Dubbed as a gaming device before being a mo... |
21 August 2011
04:58 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson’s Xperia PLAY smartphone is slowly turning into what it was meant to be from day one: a gaming powerhouse. It already had the capabilities, but there were only a few titles available specifically for it at launch, something that changed significantly in the meantime. Now, the handset enjoys a num... |
19 August 2011
16:31 GMT |
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What it is: The Witcher 2 impressed pretty much all of the legions of role playing game fans, thanks to a deep overarching story, lots of choices, fast and fluid combat as well as stunning graphics. Now, the development team at CD Projekt Red is preparing a massive update for the game, in the form of The Witcher 2 ve... |
19 August 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Video game developer Blizzard seems to have confirmed that versions of its upcoming hack and slash Diablo III title are being prepared for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, although it seems that they will be launched later than the PC game.Josh Mosqueira, who is the lead designer working on the console versions of... |
19 August 2011
14:51 GMT |
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What it is: Ubisoft struck gold with its Assassin’s Creed franchise, even if the first game wasn’t all that great. Since Assassin’s Creed 2, however, the popularity increased exponentially so, in the third consecutive year, we can expect a new iteration of the series, in the form of Assassin’s... |
19 August 2011
11:01 GMT |
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What it is: Electronic Arts is keen on making a dent in the supremacy of Activision’s Call of Duty series and, as such, has tasked its DICE studio with creating Battlefield 3, the most technologically impressive first person shooter we’ve seen in years.Powered by an innovative Frostbite 2 engine, capable ... |
19 August 2011
09:31 GMT |
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What it is: Dark Souls is the spiritual successor to the critically praised Demon’s Souls, the tough as nails role playing game that amazed PlayStation 3 owners from around the world and made its developer, From Software, and publisher, Namco Bandai, quite a lot of money, as well as a cult following.The new gam... |
19 August 2011
08:01 GMT |
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During Gamescom 2011, Nvidia held its own presentation, as the graphics company wanted to highlight where it believes gaming is going and how it plans to help get it there, with new technology and better developer support.
Nvidia has been relentless in its PC gaming push, launching new graphics cards, partnering u... |
19 August 2011
06:57 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has revealed during a presentation for its upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic that it plans to limit the availability of both physical and digital copies for the title in order to make sure the launch of the game goes smoothly.EA and developer BioWare say that server crashes... |
19 August 2011
05:50 GMT |
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The interest of the multiplayer battle arena fans has lately been linked to the Valve created Dota 2, which is being unveiled at Gamescom via a tournament with a big prize of 1 million dollars, and to the new expansion that is coming to League of Legends.But the core concepts of the Defense of the Ancients like games... |
19 August 2011
05:18 GMT |
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What it is: Naughty Dog and Sony hit a gold mine with the Uncharted franchise, so they’re now getting ready to debut a brand new installment in the series, with Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception.The new game sees players learn more about protagonist Nathan Drake, his friends, including Victor ‘Sully&rs... |
18 August 2011
18:41 GMT |
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What it is: Without a doubt the PlayStation Vita is a powerful handheld console, but what really drove this point home was the demonstration of an Uncharted game running on the portable device, in the form of Uncharted: Golden Abyss.The game impressed attendants at the E3 2011 conference and is now demonstrating the ... |
18 August 2011
17:31 GMT |
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What it is: Electronic Arts has given its Need for Speed racing series a new lease on life, with successful entries into the simulator genre (NFS Shift 1 and 2) as well as the action genre, with last year’s NFS: Hot Pursuit. Now, the company, together with EA Black Box studio, is working hard on Need for Speed:... |
18 August 2011
16:31 GMT |
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What it is: Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport racing franchise is getting ready to debut a brand new installment, in the form of Forza Motorsport 4, just as the competition in its genre is heating up, what with Gran Turismo 5 or the rebooted Need for Speed series.Still, Forza 4 wants to prove that it’s more th... |
18 August 2011
15:31 GMT |
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What it is: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning hasn’t made quite an impact since it was first announced, largely because it’s a high fantasy role playing game with multiple classes, branching paths and lots of choices to be had, making it similar to quite a lot of other games that have been coming out in recen... |
18 August 2011
14:31 GMT |
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A panel of independent experts selected by the organizers of the Gamescom 2011 trade event have announced the winners of the awards for this year's show, with Battlefield 3, the first person shooter from developer DICE and publisher Electronic Arts, being designed the best game of the show.The organizers have no... |
18 August 2011
13:31 GMT |
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What it is: Electronic Arts hasn’t reached so far the success it had hoped for with Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, a full pledged MMORPG. BioWare / Mythic team has now arrived with a brand new and lighter title, in the form of Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes.Focusing on a six versus six versus six mechan... |
18 August 2011
13:01 GMT |
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What it is: Microsoft is definitely keen on making its Kinect sensor for the Xbox 360 a very attractive device, and what better way than to release an experience for it based on one of the most successful franchises of all time, in the form of Kinect Star Wars. We already saw the game showcased earlier this year at E... |
18 August 2011
11:01 GMT |
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What it is: The GoW saga is preparing for the last hurrah in its first planned trilogy, so you know that the team at Epic Games is working hard to make Gears of War 3 the best game yet.We’ve seen the company showcase the polished multiplayer mode in the recent online beta for Gears 3, and we’ve also heard... |
18 August 2011
10:49 GMT |
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What it is: Batman: Arkham City is the Warner Bros. published and Rocksteady developed follow-up to Arkham Asylum, which just might be the best superhero based video game ever created.The sequel aims to cover more space in the city of Gotham and will allow players to also take on the role of some other characters fro... |
18 August 2011
10:49 GMT |
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What it is: FIFA 12 competes with Madden NFL 12, also from EA Sports, for the titles of the best sold and most coveted sports simulation in the world of video games. It might already be past August 15 but it seems like an eternity for all the fans who are interested in picking up the game so spending time with it is ... |
18 August 2011
10:25 GMT |
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Kinect has been a big success for Microsoft since it launched during the fall of last year, with the company reporting that it has managed to sell more than 10 million pieces of hardware and the same number of video games for it before the beginning of the June.But the motion tracking hardware has not yet had a &ldqu... |
18 August 2011
08:52 GMT |
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Gamescom is well underway and Kingston is, unsurprisingly, present and accounted for, complete with a wide range of not just HyperX memory products, but also a number of flash products. Kingston, like various other companies, went over to Gamescom to show off an entire batch of products, memory and flash devices to... |
18 August 2011
04:31 GMT |
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Video game publisher Nintendo has announced that it will be launching the Nintendo Wii powered The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword on November 20 on the United States market, closing down the year of celebrations that marked the 25th anniversary of the franchise.The game is being launched on the Wii home console, whic... |
18 August 2011
02:58 GMT |
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What it is: Volition’s and THQ’s Saints Row series didn’t really impress many people with the first game, but the second really highlighted just what sort of over the top experience can players expect from the franchise, allowing them to engage in all sorts of crazy activities.Now, with Saints Row 3... |
18 August 2011
01:40 GMT |
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What it is: Darksiders 1 managed to really gain a cult following, largely because it borrowed elements from a lot of popular games, including God of War, The Legend of Zelda and even Portal, while adding its own post apocalyptic tone by actually allowing you to play as one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, War.... |
18 August 2011
01:20 GMT |
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What it is: Metro 2033 surprised quite a lot of people last year, when 4A Games, together with THQ, brought a pretty unique and dark first person shooter based on the book series developed by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky.Now, a follow-up is currently in development, which takes a few liberties with the franchise,... |
18 August 2011
00:48 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that the soon to be launched PlayStation Vita handheld will get free applications that allow the device to access popular sites like Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter and Skype.Sony is saying that the four apps are just the first ones in a bigger soc... |
17 August 2011
17:31 GMT |
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What it is: Just as the Nintendo Wii is getting ready to be replaced, the Japanese company is preparing a last The Legend of Zelda game, in order to make parting with the small white (or black or red) console that much harder.The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword promises to be the proper 3D Zelda title that Wind Waker... |
17 August 2011
16:51 GMT |
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What it is: Sony’s PlayStation 3 hasn’t had
much luck with first person shooter franchises, so Insomniac Games is once
again trying to lure in the Call of Duty crowd with a new installment in its
Resistance series.With a new protagonist, Joseph Capelli, a grittier take
on the fictional war between hu... |
17 August 2011
16:45 GMT |
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What it is: The Witcher 2 has pleased a huge amount of PC
gamers and reviewers alike, with its deep role playing mechanics, sharp
graphics, polished gameplay and the great story filled with twists and turns.Now, the development team at CD Projekt Red is hard at
work adapting The Witcher 2 from the PC platform ont... |
17 August 2011
16:39 GMT |
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What it is: Mass Effect 3 is the third installment in the
hugely successful sci-fi role playing third person shooter series from BioWare
and Electronic Arts. After two very successful entries, Mass Effect 3 brings
the planned trilogy to a close, depicting the final adventures of the
protagonist, Commander Shepar... |
17 August 2011
16:32 GMT |
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What it is: Batman: Arkham City is the sequel to the
critically and commercially successful Batman: Arkham Asylum, made by
Rocksteady Studios and set to be published by Warner Bros. Interactive
Entertainment.Arkham Asylum impressed with its polished gameplay and
was the first truly successful game based on a com... |
17 August 2011
16:17 GMT |
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What it is: Every new Nintendo console has had to have a custom Mario game, and the new 3DS is no exception, as the creator of the series himself, Shigeru Miyamoto, confirmed that such a title, in the form of Super Mario 3D Land, will be arriving on the handheld device.Now, after getting the first actual details... |
17 August 2011
14:41 GMT |
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What it is: Ever since Nintendo came up with the idea to make many characters from its hugely successful Mario franchise drive karts around virtual tracks, fans flocked to every installment of the Mario Kart franchise, making it a blockbuster for the Japanese company.
Now, with the newly released Nintendo 3DS hand... |
17 August 2011
14:23 GMT |
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Video game developer Carbine Studios has announced that the mysterious MMO project it has been teasing for a few weeks is called Wildstar and will try to mix science fiction and fantasy while also offering a new, so called “layered”, approach to quests.The game will be published by NCsoft exclusively on t... |
17 August 2011
05:47 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced, at its Gamescom 2011 press conference, that it is working on a new street football video game linked to the FIFA series which will take its inspiration from the way the street game is being played by amateurs all over the world.FIFA Street is set to be launched on t... |
17 August 2011
04:48 GMT |
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The press conference that publisher Electronic Arts held in Cologne at the Gamescom 2011 trade show sought to promote upcoming launches like Need for Speed: The Run and Battlefield 3 more than announce important new games.
But the company also talked about some new properties and one of the more interesting ones i... |
17 August 2011
03:50 GMT |
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Sony made quite a few big announcements at its pre-Gamescom 2011 conference yesterday evening, and, while the PlayStation 3 price cut was the biggest of the show, the company also made a pretty major announcement with the confirmation of a new and cheaper PlayStation Portable console.Sony is hard at work promoting th... |
17 August 2011
01:50 GMT |
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Amidst the big news that came out of Sony’s pre-Gamescom 2011 conference, by far the biggest was the confirmation of a new price made made to the company’s flagship model, the PlayStation 3 home console, now $249, in North America, 249 euros in Europe, and 199 pounds in the UK.Sony opted to make quite a l... |
17 August 2011
00:51 GMT |
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Sony didn’t see fit to offer wireless Internet to the legions of press members present at its pre-Gamescom 2011 conference, so feel free to read about it, albeit in a late manner (just like the conference itself) below.Sony Computer Entertainment Europe CEO Andrew House kicked off the company’s pre-Gamesc... |
16 August 2011
16:05 GMT |
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The EA Sports division has announced that in 2012 players will be able to pick up a new installment of the FIFA Street franchise, which will use much of the underlying technology now included in the main FIFA 12 release, including Player Impact Engine and better Artificial Intelligence on both attack and defense.The ... |
16 August 2011
10:27 GMT |
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Sony wants to properly celebrate the upcoming Gamescom 2011 conference and has just deployed a special themed space as a preview of its own offers that will be presented in Cologne, next week, as part of the large gaming convention.Gamescom 2011 will kick off next week, with the biggest and most popular gaming compan... |
11 August 2011
02:40 GMT |
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Blizzard has confirmed that it will be bringing playable versions of both its upcoming Diablo III dungeon crawler role-playing game, as well as the recently confirmed StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, at this year's Gamescom conference in Cologne, Germany.
Blizzard has quite a lot of projects set to appear in ... |
8 July 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Famous video game developer Valve is set to appear at the upcoming Gamescom 2011 conference in Cologne, Germany, and, at least according to the official attendants list, may bring a playable version of its upcoming DotA 2.
Valve made a huge name for itself with massive hits like Half Life 1 or 2, the phenomenal Po... |
6 July 2011
02:40 GMT |
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