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The development team at Firaxis and publisher 2K Games have released yet another trailer for their upcoming strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown that’s designed to show players the sacrifices they will have to make as they try to stop the alien menace from claiming ownership of Earth. The original title in the se... |
27 August 2012
07:47 GMT |
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Dishonored, from Arkane Studios and Bethesda, and Rayman Legends, from Ubisoft, have picked up multiple Gamescom 2012 Awards, which were awarded by a team of 20 experts from the video game industry. The winners in full are as follows: Best PS3 Game - Dishonored from Bethesda Best Wii Game - Rayman Legends by Ubisof... |
27 August 2012
02:32 GMT |
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I’ve already offered a hands-on article about District 187, the first title that South Korea-based CJ Games plans to bring to Western markets, but the company also has long-term plans and is currently working on two other titles sharing an MMO core, called Monarch and Hounds.
Monarch is a straight-up free-to-p... |
21 August 2012
15:31 GMT |
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The organizers have announced that Gamescom 2012, the video game trade show set in Cologne, Germany, has attracted 275,000 visitors and that it has seen increases when it comes to the number of companies present and to the number of countries represented.
Trade visitors grew to 24,500 this year and they hailed from ... |
21 August 2012
12:11 GMT |
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I’ve never been a fan of the Lost Planet franchise but Capcom seems to believe that there’s some quality to the ice planet setting and they are getting ready to launch another game in the series, the third full one, which I managed to get to play during Gamescom 2012.
Lost Planet 3 takes place before the... |
21 August 2012
04:08 GMT |
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Resident Evil 6 is being promoted as the game that will restore the faith of long-term fans in the zombie battling franchise from Capcom and, based on the time I spent with the game during Gamescom 2012, I must say that it seems a varied, difficult, sometimes scary third-person shooter.
I first chose to play as Leon... |
21 August 2012
02:28 GMT |
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Welcome to A Gamer’s Week, our regular 7-day recap of the most important news in the gaming industry.Gamescom 2012 took place this week and it’s been a veritable cornucopia in terms of news, as many big companies made important announcements during the expo held in Cologne, Germany. You can follow our com... |
19 August 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Ubisoft has posted quite a few new things about its upcoming Rayman Legends, including a fresh video that depicts the game’s special cooperative mode, whichmakes full use of the Nintendo Wii U’s GamePad controller, not to mention some screenshots that show of the game’s stunning graphics.Rayman Orig... |
18 August 2012
00:11 GMT |
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On my third and final day of Gamescom I saw District 187 from CJ Games Global and I plan on taking a look at some titles from Capcom later during the day, before I board my plane (reports on them will probably arrive next week).
I mentioned during my first roundup that Gamescom 2012 felt more alive than E3 and I thi... |
17 August 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Video game development is a tough business and in all the simulated love between journalists and creators there’s no abundance of confidence between the two groups, which creates the perfect setup for a new stealth action title called: Video Game Spy.
Developers and publishers, especially when they are showing... |
17 August 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Sony premiered a brand new video for its upcoming The Last of Us survival game, this time showing off another dramatic encounter and hinting at the dark past of the main protagonist, Joel.
The Last of Us tells the story of Joel and Ellie, who must travel across a post-apocalyptic environment filled with human raider... |
17 August 2012
14:31 GMT |
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One of the biggest problems with Impire is that it’s almost imp-ossible to look at language in the same way after looking at the game and talking with the pun peddler that is Yves Bordeleau, the studio director of the Montreal-based Cyanide outfit that’s handling the development of the imp-powered title.
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17 August 2012
12:31 GMT |
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Ubisoft has revealed a brand new trailer for its upcoming Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation title for the PlayStation Vita, as well as a batch of rather impressive screenshots from the game.
Assassin’s Creed 3 is set to delight PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 owners, but Ubisoft has also confirmed a spinoff experienc... |
17 August 2012
10:41 GMT |
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CJ Games Global might not benefit from worldwide name recognition just yet, but the company, which was founded by the leader of Samsung, is a leading force on the South Korean games market and has big plans for its first game to move to the West, District 187.
The core of the game, which is already available on the ... |
17 August 2012
05:19 GMT |
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War of the Roses is an ambitious new title which aims to bring the persistence of modern gaming to the age of the historical battles between the Houses of Lancaster and York over the throne of England. At Gamescom 2012 I managed to sit down with Gordon Van Dyke, who is the senior producer of War of the Roses, and ge... |
17 August 2012
05:07 GMT |
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One of the more impressive things at Gamescom 2012 is the enthusiasm of the crowd of visitors when it comes to competitive games that take place in open space.There’s cheering when the best players are presented and interviewed, more when games start and the crowd, made up mostly of players with deep knowledge ... |
17 August 2012
03:44 GMT |
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I’d like to be able to report that I had a fun time playing the multiplayer mode for the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops II during Gamescom 2012 and that I came away sure that this year I might actually spend time playing it with strangers and friends. Unfortunately, my first 5 minutes of play time consisted ... |
17 August 2012
03:23 GMT |
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DICE has posted some more details about its recently announced Battlefield 3 Premium Edition, confirming its actual contents and how many exclusive things customers can get if they buy the new pack. Even if it was leaked before its official announcement, the Battlefield 3 Premium Edition still surprised quite a few ... |
17 August 2012
03:09 GMT |
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Gamescom 2012 has been lacking the big announcements that many were expecting to see and most of the publishers who are here are offering much of the same content that was also shown during E3 earlier during the summer.
One big exception consists of NetherRealm, the people behind the Mortal Kombat series, who have a... |
16 August 2012
18:11 GMT |
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Injustice – Gods Among Us is the most recent fighting game from the team that also created Mortal Kombat and, after revealing the new title during E3 2012, the developers brought a playable version to Gamescom this year.
I played a few matches, using characters like Batman, Harley Quinn, Superman and Solomon G... |
16 August 2012
16:31 GMT |
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I spent the afternoon of the previous Gamescom 2012 day with the development teams at Paradox Interactive and had a look at what they are preparing for the near and medium-term future.
The big announcement from the team is that they are working on Europa Universalis IV, a new installment in the Medieval grand strate... |
16 August 2012
15:41 GMT |
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I’ve already written about the way Nvidia, the company that created the GeForce line of graphics chips for PCs and now also delivers the Tegra line of chips for mobile devices, might reshape both the markets on which it is active.
But the best hardware means nothing without video games to sustain its existence... |
16 August 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Today I roamed the halls of Gamescom 2012 in order to get hands-on time with two games that I am very much excited about: the new XCOM from Firaxis and Injustice – Gods Among Us from NetherRealm. But between the appointments, I once again waded in the sea of visitors that’s currently enjoying the show an... |
16 August 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Blizzard has released the opening cinematic for its upcoming World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria expansion, showing off the new Pandaren race in action against a Human and an Orc.
Mists of Pandaria is the next big expansion for World of Warcraft, one of the most popular subscription-based MMORPGs in the world.
We ... |
16 August 2012
09:42 GMT |
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When A Game of Dwarves was first announced by Paradox Interactive, a lot of people saw the game as an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Dwarf Fortress by offering a title with much of the same core ideas and a graphics interface that would appeal to a larger player base. But when I managed to see the game d... |
16 August 2012
08:48 GMT |
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Just in time for Gamescom 2012 and their presentation about the various ways Neverwinter will encourage User Generated Content, the development team at Cryptic has also offered some new screens linked to the MMO, designed to show off the various areas of the game and the graphics quality.
Neverwinter is taking place... |
16 August 2012
08:22 GMT |
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Neverwinter is a free-to-play game set in the Dungeons & Dragons space, and developer Cryptic and publisher Perfect World are not content with just giving the players access to a world they created around the town that also lends the game its name.
The two companies have plans for a deep User Create Content system t... |
16 August 2012
07:28 GMT |
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During E3 2012 earlier this year, the developers at Firaxis chose to show off their upcoming strategy game via a presentation that featured their own leader, Sid Meier, as a powerful operative ready to save humanity from aliens.
Now, at Gamescom 2012, they are allowing players to actually get their hands on control... |
16 August 2012
06:40 GMT |
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My schedule during the first full day of Gamescom 2012 was dominated by meetings with various developers and publishers, but I managed to get some time to roam the show floor and take a few pictures of the crowd and the various stands.
Gamescom is a large show, covering 2 halls that are exclusively for business meet... |
16 August 2012
06:33 GMT |
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Ghost Recon Online, Ubisoft’s free-to-play shooter, can finally be played by anyone in the world, as it has just entered open beta stage.
Ghost Recon Online is Ubisoft’s attempt at gaining an upper hand on the free-to-play market on the PC platform and has been in a closed beta stage for quite some time.... |
16 August 2012
05:51 GMT |
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When a gamer hears about Nvidia his first thoughts will be linked to the best graphics cards for current high end PCs or, maybe, to the supposed collaboration between the company and Sony or Microsoft for next generation consoles.But the biggest growing segment of business for the company is actually its line of Tegr... |
16 August 2012
04:07 GMT |
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The Witcher 2 was one of the most impressive role-playing games of the last few years, and after launching the 2.0 version of the game, the development team at CD Projekt RED has introduced the new REDkit set of modding tools, designed to allow any interested fan to create more adventures starring Geralt and his comp... |
16 August 2012
03:37 GMT |
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The first full day I have spent at the 2012 edition of the Gamescom event, the biggest European trade show dedicated to video games, were linked to three big companies, each of them a leader in its field.
I’ve had meetings with Nvidia, which talked about the future of the graphics card business, CD Projekt RED... |
15 August 2012
18:21 GMT |
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Paradox Interactive has only announced Europa Universalis IV last week and they are already showing the game in an alpha state during Gamescom 2012, after working on the core concepts and ideas since about September 2011.
Europa Universalis is the core grand strategy series from the company, which spawned everything... |
15 August 2012
14:21 GMT |
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The big announcement that Nvidia is making at Gamescom 2012 will only be revealed tomorrow, but I met the company representatives today and discovered that they have the power and the ambition to fundamentally remake PC gaming, in particular, and maybe even the entire industry.
Nvidia is in the business of making be... |
15 August 2012
11:57 GMT |
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It’s the second time I get to Cologne in order to report on the Gamescom trade show and once again I am impressed by how foreign a city can be to the traveler, even if its culture, economics and politics are similar to that of the place I hail from: Bucharest, Romania.
In the spirit of the Game Ideas diary tha... |
15 August 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Valve has officially dismissed yesterday's rumor that it's going to debut Half-Life 3 at this week's Gamescom 2012 expo, confirming that it won't be showing any games at this year's convention.Half-Life 3, along other surprise sequels like Dragon Age 3, was mentioned by an official Gamescom d... |
15 August 2012
07:41 GMT |
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FIFA 13 is a game which needs to fill the already huge shoes of the 2012 installment of the football simulation series and the game's Gamescom 2012 presentation has suggested that the Match Day experience might be the secret weapon in the arsenal of EA Sports.
David Rutter, the executive producer working on FIF... |
15 August 2012
01:37 GMT |
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Ubisoft has released a brand new trailer for its upcoming Assassin’s Creed 3 game, this time in the form of a promotional video made by the fictional Abstergo Industries corporation designed to show off the unique powers of its Animus devices.Assassin’s Creed 3 tells the story of Connor, a young half-Moha... |
15 August 2012
01:31 GMT |
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Sony and developer SuperBot Entertainment have confirmed that their upcoming PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale fighting game has been delayed and is now scheduled to appear towards the end of November in North America and Europe.PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is Sony’s answer to Nintendo’s hugely p... |
15 August 2012
00:41 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita handheld seems to be the main element in the near future strategy for Sony and that means that the company has brought out the big development guns, including Media Molecule, which announced that it was working on Tearaway, a new game which is inspired by paper and the way we interact with it. ... |
14 August 2012
13:55 GMT |
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Sony has made a big push for the PlayStation Vita handheld during its Gamescom 2012 press conference and part of the hardware marker’s move include giving away a free version of the upcoming PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale for the device as long as a player picks up the game for the PlayStation 3, thanks to... |
14 August 2012
13:35 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has just revealed a brand new trailer for its upcoming Medal of Honor: Warfighter shooter, once again showcasing the multiplayer mode and its special fireteam mechanic.
Medal of Honor: Warfighter once again tells the story of a team of Tier 1 Operators – the elite agents that undertake the most... |
14 August 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Austin Matthew, who is the general manager at the Austin Studio of BioWare and one of the main developers behind The Old Republic MMO has announced that the game was getting a new Grand Acquisition worldwide event.
The name sounds like something that the Ferengi of Star Trek would dream about and involves players se... |
14 August 2012
11:25 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has revealed the full length version of the Need for Speed: Most Wanted multiplayer trailer we saw last week, showing off an array of different online activities that can be performed by players in all sorts of powerful cars.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted is a recreation of the cult classic game from 2... |
14 August 2012
11:10 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has just revealed a brand new trailer for its upcoming Army of Two: Devil’s Cartel third-person shooter game, this time showing off brand new footage from the title and even a release period of March 2013.
Army of Two games haven’t exactly set benchmarks for third-person shooters, even if... |
14 August 2012
10:32 GMT |
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Capcom has confirmed during its pre-Gamescom 2012 press conference that it’s working together with Paris-based developer Dontnod Entertainment on Remember Me, a futuristic third-person action adventure game that’s out in May, 2013.
Capcom has already made a few big announcements at Gamescom 2012, includi... |
14 August 2012
09:21 GMT |
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LucasArts has released the first proper gameplay trailer for its upcoming Star Wars 1313 shooter, showing off quite a lot of footage from the game, including bits and pieces we already admired last June back at E3 2012.
Star Wars 1313 promises to deliver a rather novel experience, largely because the playable charac... |
14 August 2012
08:21 GMT |
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A document on the official website of Gamescom 2012 lists all the announcements that will be made during the upcoming convention and, among many titles we already knew about, there are two very interesting mentions: Half-Life 3 and Dragon Age 3.
Gamescom 2012 is one of the biggest gaming conventions in the world and... |
14 August 2012
07:39 GMT |
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Capcom has just confirmed that its upcoming DmC Devil May Cry hack and slash title will star not only Dante but also his brother, Vergil, who’ll help the protagonist during the story. What’s more, new details, screenshots, and a special trailer have just been revealed ahead of their presentation at Gamesc... |
14 August 2012
06:58 GMT |
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