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The biggest panic moment in Legend of Grimrock arrived early on as I was exploring a rather large room that held no enemies and was dominated by a big pressure pad that stood right in the middle; it was there that I remembered what video game related fear feels like. Modern video games love to hold a player’s ... |
9 May 2012
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On first seeing Confrontation in action I could only think about the many moments of fun that I had with Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, and I wondered whether the new game created by the developers at Cyanide and published by Focus Home Interactive can deliver the level of quality and enjoyment.The structure of Co... |
28 March 2012
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The developers at Turbotape Games and publisher Paradox Interactive have launched another trailer for their ship simulation title Naval War: Arctic Circle, showing off the effect that the detection of a Russian submarine can have when it happens outside of a major Norwegian port.
The trailer is made up of in-game fo... |
9 March 2012
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What we know:At the moment EA Sports has not yet confirmed that they are working on a new football simulation in the long running franchise but it’s pretty much a guarantee that every year, at some point during September, gamers will get a new installment.Given the advancements introduced in FIFA 12 it is highl... |
3 March 2012
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What we know:XCOM was a strategy game with turn based battles and a focus on man management, production and research, but the revival from publisher Take Two and developer 2K Marin, of BioShock 2 fame, takes the name and uses it for a mission based action game played from a third person perspective with limited contr... |
25 February 2012
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I am the first to confess that I never stood on an actual battlefield, clad in iron and holding a steel sword, in order to face a number of demonic, warped beasts and that the lack of this experience might very well make me unprepared to comment on how the battle terrain is built in King Arthur II – The Role-Pl... |
15 February 2012
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As men stand shoulder to shoulder, pikes ready, I find myself thinking about how much pain someone can feel when ripped apart by a flying demon-bird. This is the sort of question that King Arthur II – The Role-Playing Wargame brings to the mind of a gamer who knows a little too much about how a weapon can rip t... |
8 February 2012
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Mass Effect 3 is set to be the conclusion of one of BioWare’s biggest franchises and the developers are eager to make sure that the action side of the game matches up the ambition of the storytelling.
Speaking to the Official Xbox Magazine, Preston Watamaniuk, the lead designer working on Mass Effect 3, stated... |
31 January 2012
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The developers at Cliffhanger Productions and the publisher gamigo have offered a lot of information on the multiplayer options that will be offered in the upcoming Jagged Alliance Online, the game that seeks to respect the original ideas of the series and update them for modern gamers.The multiplayer modes include:-... |
17 January 2012
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Video game developer Firaxis has been recently revealed as working on a new XCOM: Enemy Unknown game, which is set to bring the tactical battles of the series to the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 later this year, and now the company has offered some more detail on the game, which sounds as coming in pretty c... |
10 January 2012
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The publisher Kalypso Media and the developers at bitComposer have announced that they are integrating the full functionality of the Steamworks suite from Valve into the upcoming Jagged Alliance” Back in Action video game.This means that players who get the packaged version of the game will be able to use the u... |
22 December 2011
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I love management titles and have done so since I was a child, playing around with Sim City and Railroad Tycoon, at times without actually understanding all the concepts but always interested in what was happening.I didn't always love football but social and family pressure led to an interest in the sport, which... |
27 October 2011
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The indie minds behind the Humble Bundle, which allows players to pay anything they want to get a number of small but innovative titles, have announced that they are adding Frozen Synapse to their line-up.Anyone who want to pick up the turn based tactics game, which has an unique style and is well suited for competit... |
29 September 2011
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When 2K Marin and publisher Take Two announced their intention to create a video game called XCOM and showed their initial ideas the gaming community was highly critical, saying that the game should not use the venerable name and that the third-person shooter space was not suited for it. But the presentation for XCO... |
8 June 2011
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Relic, as the developer, and THQ, as the publisher, have recently launched the second expansion for Dawn of War II, called Retribution, which introduced some more traditional real-time strategy elements to a series that surprised everyone in 2009 when it eliminated based building and unit recruitment from the single-... |
17 March 2011
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When Dawn of War II first came out, more than two whole years ago, a lot of the people that played the original were disappointed with the product that developer Relic and publisher THQ delivered and basically said that this was no longer a real-time strategy game.
The change was pretty big, focusing on just four ... |
11 March 2011
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Rumors towards the mid point of February suggested that there were significant changes made to the XCOM project that is being developed at the studio 2K Marin, after the leader of the team announced that he was resigning.
But the publisher says that, while Martin Slater left, development work is going on as planne... |
1 March 2011
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Kalypso Media, as the publisher, and bitComposer Games, as the developer, have announced that they are working together in order to create and launch a new video game based on the classic Jagged Alliance series.
BitComposer has been working on the revival for some time under the name Jagged Alliance 2: Reloaded, b... |
4 February 2011
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One of the big issues that fans of Dragon Age: Origins have been having with the sequel that is slated to arrive in 2011 has been with the changes that BioWare could make to create a faster-paced game and a new video from the developer shows exactly how different the combat in the two games is.
The first combat in... |
21 December 2010
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A developer that is working on the upcoming role playing game Dragon Age 2 from BioWare has stated that the game still aims to offer a lot of tactical choices for players while also allowing them to engage in quick and exciting fighting sequences.Speaking to Video Game Daily Robyn Theberge, who is the development man... |
15 November 2010
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Civilization V is the new turn based strategy game from Jon Shafer, Sid Meier and the team at Firaxis, allowing players to take control of a nation as a mythical leader and lead them to glory in search of victory via domination, science, social policies or democratic world vote.I think I understand why I steered clea... |
8 October 2010
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EA Sports has announced that it is working on FIFA Manager 2011, a new entry in its football management simulation, set to be released this year in order to celebrate the fact that ten years have passed since the series was first been tried out by gamers. The developers are promising they will be introducing a variet... |
5 July 2010
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Sony Online Entertainment and Wizards of the Coast LLC have announced an agreement to collaborate on developing a videogame called Magic: The Gathering – Tactics, which is set to be released on the PC and on the PlayStation 3 at some point in 2010.The aim of the project is to bring the same mechanics and fellin... |
3 November 2009
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Demigod is a great game. Some say it does not have single player, but they are wrong. Just set up a skirmish and take on A.I.-controlled opponents, which are tough to defeat on Nightmare difficulty. Some say that the glitches in setting up over the Internet multiplayer are taking away from the game by denying players... |
30 April 2009
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Strategic Command 2: Blitzkrieg will receive its second expansion pack thanks to Fury Software and Battlefront.com, in order to further enhance the gameplay experience of the people who already have the game. Named Patton Drives East, this expansion pack comes with a few more World War II possible scenarios, asking t... |
21 February 2008
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R-Type Tactics also known as R-Type Command is a tactical hybrid shooter video game released in 2007 in Japan for PlayStation Portable. It is scheduled to be released in the United States in 2008. The main part of the game consists of two consecutive campaigns, in which the player controls first the forces of Earth,... |
16 January 2008
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KOEI has announced that the latest game in the Dynasty Warriors series will be shipped to North American retailers starting the 19th of February and it will be available for your Xbox 360. The game will deliver some 720p HD visuals, it will support 1 or 2 player modes and we can't say yet what's the minimum... |
19 December 2007
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Mercenaries may offer a unique open-ended military experience like we've never seen before, but at its core, it's still a third-person action game. All the same basic strategic principles you've applied to such games in the past apply here as well, but like any good game,Mercenaries is filled with litt... |
27 March 2007
02:30 GMT |
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