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Spec Ops: The Line is a new third person shooter coming from developer Yager and publisher 2K Games.
The new title wants to deliver a special story focused on a spec ops team whose members are stuck in a version of Dubai that’s been overrun by the desert sands.
They were initially sent to r... |
22 February 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Lollipop Chainsaw is the upcoming hack and slash game coming from Grasshopper Manufacture and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, masterminded by famous Japanese designer Goichi Suda (Suda51, as fans affectionately call him).
The game puts players in the cheerleader uniform of blonde teenager Juli... |
20 February 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Video game developer and publisher Paradox Interactive is best known for creating grand strategy titles but with War of the Roses they are trying to make a very different beast, a game which focuses on melee combat and is oriented towards the multiplayer experience.
The gamers will become a fighter of... |
18 February 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Far Cry 3 is the latest installment in the shooter series originally made by Crytek and now developed by Ubisoft.
The game was revealed last year, at E3 2011, where it wowed attendants with its stunning visuals and peculiar characters.
As we’ve found out this week, thanks to a new trailer, some fres... |
17 February 2012
16:21 GMT |
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What we know: Syndicate was a tactical video game that allowed players to control a team of agents in a hyper-violent future world. But the remake takes the name and the theme of a future dominated by corporations that are in a state of continuous low-level warfare and morphs the rest into a first-person shooter wit... |
16 February 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Zombies have been much in demand lately and they have managed to power success both in the television world and in the video game space.
But no matter how good Dead Island might have been, no game has yet managed to capture the social interactions on which shows like Walking Dead focus.
Dead State is... |
14 February 2012
18:41 GMT |
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What we know: Resident Evil 6 is set to be the latest game in the long running series developed by Capcom and the third Resident Evil title of the current year, after Revelations and Operation Raccoon City. As opposed to the not so popular Resident Evil 5, this new one promises to deliver a better balance between t... |
13 February 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Aliens: Colonial Marines is another game that is supposed to arrive during 2012 and has been in development for a long time and the pedigree of Gearbox suggests that Aliens fans might finally have a serious game to cut their teeth with, after the first Aliens vs. Predator title.
The concept of the Ali... |
11 February 2012
09:11 GMT |
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What we know:
Blizzard is finally set to enter the MOBA (Multiplayer Battle Arena) genre with its own game called, what else, Blizzard Dota.
Seeing as how the whole genre originated as a fan-made mod for the studio’s own Warcraft III strategy game, Blizzard wants to make sure that its own effort will deliver ... |
10 February 2012
19:31 GMT |
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What we know: Binary Domain is a third-person squad-based shooter that is being published by SEGA and developed by the newly formed Yakuza Studio, which is actually headed by Toshihiro Nagoshi, the man behind the successful, long-running Japanese open world action game. The game takes place in the Tokyo of 2080 with... |
9 February 2012
18:31 GMT |
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What we know: The Last Guardian is a third-person title that combines action sequences with puzzles and is developed by the same team that has worked on Shadow of the Colossus and Ico. The game will allow players to control a young boy, which seems to be the central archetype for Team Ico, and will watch him as he ... |
7 February 2012
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BioShock Infinite is the upcoming first person shooter title masterminded by Ken Levine and currently in development at Irrational Games, the studio behind the massively successful BioShock 1 game.
As opposed to the first title in the series, BioShock Infinite takes place quite a few decades before th... |
6 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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What we know:Hitman: Absolution is the first game in the series since 2006 and will serve as a test case of whether Square Enix can break out from its JRPG cocoon and deliver yet another Western targeted hit.The game will again see the player take control of Agent 47 and will fight against a new antagonist called Bla... |
4 February 2012
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What we know: Shank 2 is the next iteration in the side scrolling brawler series made by independent studio Klei Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. While the original impressed with its sharp visual style, as well as with the surprisingly deep combat mechanics, its successor wants to improve pretty much... |
3 February 2012
14:21 GMT |
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What we know:Radical Entertainment has managed to create a pretty solid new franchise with 2009’s Prototype, and now the development team has a chance to show that its ideas about open world action games have legs, by designing a sequel that takes the best concepts and develops them in interesting ways.The bigg... |
2 February 2012
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What we know:
Dirt Showdown is the latest racing game from Codemasters, the studio that brought fans the Dirt franchise, not to mention the F1 series or standalone titles, like Race Driver: GRID.
The new Dirt game takes the series in a new direction, as players are no longer tasked with completing rally stages, lik... |
1 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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What we know: Max Payne 3 was first shown off in 2008 and Take Two was adamant about the fact that it would be launched one year later, before first delaying it to 2010, then the fall of 2011 and now the middle part of this year. The developers have promised that the core of the third-person shooter game will again... |
31 January 2012
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DmC Devil May Cry is an upcoming game from UK-based developer Ninja Theory that aims at rebooting the hack and slash series developed by Capcom many years ago.
As we saw up until now, the new title is a big departure from the traditional style of the franchise, featuring an overhauled version of its p... |
30 January 2012
15:11 GMT |
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What we know:
The Katamari series is a perfect example of the kind of gameplay that only Japanese developers could dream and then create.
The series launched on the PlayStation 2 in 2004 and has since then appeared on the iOS powered devices, the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation 3, and now Namco Bandai has also brou... |
27 January 2012
18:41 GMT |
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What we know:
Darksiders II is the sequel to the original hack and slash title made by Vigil Games, set to appear later this year for the PC, PlayStation3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii U.
The original Darksiders impressed through its interesting story, allowing players to take control of War, one of the four horsemen ... |
26 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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What we know: Street Fighter x Tekken might just be the game that ends the second revival of the fighting game engine, and both Capcom and Namco Bandai seem keen to create a cross-over event that will capture the interest of both sets of fans. Because Capcom is creating the game, the main control scheme will be six... |
25 January 2012
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What we know:
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is the next installment in Capcom’s long running franchise, currently in development at Canadian studio Slant Six Games.
As opposed to the first Resident Evil games, which had a distinct survival horror feel, the new title will take the series into the tacti... |
24 January 2012
10:31 GMT |
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What we know:Resistance is one of the big PlayStation brand exclusives that Sony has been cultivating since the launch of the second home console in the line-up and, with the upcoming launch of the Vita handheld, the series will get yet another outing with Burning Skies, a game which returns the player to the initial... |
23 January 2012
18:41 GMT |
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What we know:
Mass Effect 3 is the latest chapter in the role playing shooter series developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.
The game promises to bring a conclusion to the adventures of its main protagonist, Commander Shepard, as he (or she, depending on the player’s choice) needs to unite the ... |
20 January 2012
11:31 GMT |
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What we know:The Darkness II is a first person shooter that is being developed by Digital Extremes and will be published by 2K Games, a follow-up to a title launched in 2007 starring the same main hero.Jackie Estacado has used the power of the Darkness to rise to the top of the criminal world and we get to know him a... |
19 January 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Ninja Gaiden 3 is the latest installment in the hack and slash series developed by Team Ninja and published by Tecmo Koei.
The upcoming game will be the first title that hasn’t been made under the supervision of former Team Ninja boss Tomonobu Itagaki, as the design duties have been taken over b... |
18 January 2012
11:11 GMT |
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What we know:Resident Evil fans are still waiting for a full new console game in the franchise but the developers at Capcom have decided that the Nintendo 3DS handheld is compelling enough to get a full game for itself.Revelations will take place right between the fourth and fifth game in the series and will follow J... |
17 January 2012
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What we know: The combat racing genre, in which cars fitted with all sorts of outlandish weapons go up against each other in demolition derbies, was practically put on the map by the Twisted Metal franchise. Now, with the new game, called simply Twisted Metal, David Jaffe and his team at Eat Sleep Play, are trying ... |
16 January 2012
07:59 GMT |
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What we know:Borderlands was a surprising hit in 2009 and Gearbox is hoping to deliver another impressive and addictive game this year with a sequel that takes players back to Pandora and refines all the significant gameplay mechanics.For starters, the four character classes we know from the original are gone, replac... |
13 January 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Uncharted: Golden Abyss is the first mobile iteration of the action adventure series that will appear for the PlayStation Vita next month.
Unlike the PlayStation 3 titles in the franchise, Golden Abyss isn’t developed by Naughty Dog, as the studio just supervised the work done by Sony’s Bend... |
12 January 2012
10:12 GMT |
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What we know:Blizzard has been working on Diablo III in some way or another since the expansion for the second game in the series, Lord of Destruction, was launched in late 2001 and everyone is hoping that this spring, finally, we will get to play the latest action oriented role playing game in this ground breaking s... |
11 January 2012
18:41 GMT |
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What we know: SSX is a brand new installment in Electronic Arts’ long running snowboarding simulator series, finally bringing the franchise to current generation platforms. While the game was originally presented more than a year ago as SSX: Deadly Descents, alongside a gritty trailer, EA quickly realized tha... |
10 January 2012
08:53 GMT |
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What we know:Valve knows that Defense of the Ancients can be serious business and really wants to enter the market, enough to poach one of the man most associated with the original Warcraft III mod, IceFrog, and give him the resources needed to re-create the experience with better graphics and updated mechanics.The g... |
9 January 2012
18:41 GMT |
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What we know:
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is an upcoming action role playing game from 38 Studios and Big Huge Games, set to be published by Electronic Arts at the beginning of February.
While most gamers haven’t heard a lot about Reckoning, largely because it’s an all new intellectual property coming... |
6 January 2012
12:11 GMT |
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What we know:Crusader Kings II is developed in house and published by Paradox Interactive and represents yet another of their long running grand strategy series, which allows gamers to take control of a dynasty starting in 1066 and control their destiny until the later part of the Middle Ages.For almost any other Par... |
5 January 2012
18:41 GMT |
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What we know: Final Fantasy XIII-2 is a Japanese role playing game, developed and published by Square Enix, which aims at solving the variety of issues that plagued the lackluster Final Fantasy XIII, which appeared back in 2009. The action takes place three years after the last game, with its protagonist, Lightning... |
4 January 2012
08:59 GMT |
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