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When Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was still doing push-ups and washing latrines with its toothbrush back in boot camp, the COs of the game had some very different ideas for the first-class private. While the young soldier was beefing up to become the greatest entertainment release in history, the developers had a c... |
20 November 2009
03:37 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead 2 was originally criticized for the fact that it would be a sequel designed by Valve so that it could extract more money from fans while offering no real new content.Of course, since the videogame was first announced, Valve has talked to the player community for the first Left 4 Dead and explained what it... |
9 October 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Sony is announcing that its old MMO, Star Wars Galaxy, might be getting some new blood via an update that is set to introduce a series of game quests where players need to face a horde of Stormtrooper zombies. The move is designed to promote an upcoming Star Wars-themed book, called Death Troopers, that is set to arr... |
21 September 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Valve is getting ready to release Left 4 Dead 2 in November and the development team at the company is busy talking about how this new release is different from the first game in the series, which managed to be a surprise hit last year. The emphasis is allaying the fears of gamers who might be thinking that they are ... |
8 September 2009
06:09 GMT |
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It seems that Resident Evil 5, the zombie shooter from Capcom, could be on its way to getting more content via DLC packs. The game was released back in March and was well received by gamers but the campaign, even if highly replayable, was pretty short and the multiplayer modes rather limited.Capcom is probably thinki... |
7 September 2009
12:32 GMT |
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As unbelievable as it may seem, some scientists actually took time of their busy schedules to model with mathematical rigor the possibility of a zombie attack occurring, and also discovering possible ways to survive it. The authors of a new study on this issue, which was published in a book on infectious diseases, sa... |
15 August 2009
05:49 GMT |
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Naturalists and biologists were amazed at the discovery of one of the most dangerous, invasive and subversive species of fungus ever known to man, which displays a remarkable activity of ensuring its survival. It can take control of carpenter ants' brains, and turns them into zombies, which are then manipulating... |
12 August 2009
10:43 GMT |
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In a post-Apocalyptic America, people do whatever they can to survive: keep moving, stay out of the way of all zombies, avoid getting infected by them and, of course, make inappropriate jokes at the most inappropriate times. “Zombieland,” a Ruben Fleischer-directed zombie comedy, promises to deliver amazi... |
7 August 2009
11:17 GMT |
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There has been a huge amount of controversy around Valve's Left 4 Dead franchise ever since the announcement of Left 4 Dead 2 at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo. Seeing as how not even a year has passed since the release of the first title, many players felt betrayed and even started a boycott gro... |
5 August 2009
04:03 GMT |
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Capcom's Resident Evil franchise is one of the most popular and best-selling series of titles for the Japanese company. With the arrival of the first game many years ago, fans were enticed by the survival horror genre that the franchise had created and loyally bought anything related to it. Even though it didn&... |
28 July 2009
02:42 GMT |
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Ever since the surprise announcement that Valve was working on a sequel to Left 4 Dead, which is set to ship later in 2009, the developer has let out a trickle of news related to the title, showing players the improvements that would be implemented as compared with the first game in the series.It's rather unusua... |
9 July 2009
18:21 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead was one of last year's biggest games, gaining a huge amount of fans thanks to its online features. However, when Valve, the creator of the game, announced that Left 4 Dead 2 would be released, just one year after its predecessor, these fans weren't very happy. We reported the fact that they had... |
12 June 2009
03:19 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead was one of last year's biggest games, gaining a huge amount of fans thanks to its great gameplay, impressive mechanics and top-notch multiplayer. The fact that it was released by Valve, which is a company that sits very close to the community, made it even more popular. But as E3 ended last week, th... |
9 June 2009
03:21 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead was one of the biggest new games of last year, introducing a fresh and interesting twist to the whole action survival genre by putting four characters in front of a seemingly never-ending horde of zombies in different cliché locations, like a farm, an abandoned airport or a hospital.Its four main c... |
8 June 2009
03:31 GMT |
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Valve is a company that has gotten us used to seeing a game each year. It really broke the mold with The Orange Box in 2007 when it released three new titles, but in 2008, Left 4 Dead was the main project at the developer and publisher of video games. Now, a lot of people speculated that Half Life 2: Episode 3 would... |
2 June 2009
03:20 GMT |
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The swine flu is all over the news, affecting quite a lot of countries and leaving them quarantined. But, even though the E3 conference is still taking place, as its organizer, the ESA, isn't afraid of it, it seems that developers and publishers are. Capcom has recently issued a statement, through the voice of ... |
22 May 2009
14:21 GMT |
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The PC platform is declared doomed at the beginning of every year by some analysts who say that this is the year when the PC will finally die and be overtaken by consoles. But luckily the old platform keeps on fighting and it still making a hefty profit for companies that choose to bring their games onto it. As alwa... |
20 May 2009
11:01 GMT |
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PC gaming is a genre that hasn't been really appreciated lately by a lot of analysts who said that it wouldn't stand a chance against the current generation of consoles and that developers would realize the big features that these have against the PC. But week after week though, things are still going well... |
14 May 2009
11:11 GMT |
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What once started as an easy way to create enemies for underpowered consoles and other platforms has now become an integral part of our everyday gaming experience. I am of course talking about zombies and how they are now branching their undead presence into almost any type of game and genre of titles. From being ki... |
9 May 2009
07:01 GMT |
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First of all, let's get one thing clear: I'm a hardcore gamer who sometimes prefers pure action and adventure to puzzle titles. But this doesn't mean that I can't enjoy a good casual game every once in a while. That's why when PopCap revealed Plants vs. Zombies, a tower-based casual title, I... |
6 May 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead is one of the most popular shooters released last year, despite being a brand new Intellectual Property. It won over a lot of fans thanks to its solid multiplayer features and the great matchmaking system guaranteed by Valve's Steam service. Even though it experienced a lot of big sales in the holid... |
30 April 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Yesterday, the gaming department of Softpedia decided to try some co operative play for Resident Evil 5, the latest game in the very popular series from Capcom. My last experience with the franchise was the excellent Resident Evil 2, which managed to scare me a little and to thrill me quite a lot with its puzzles, bo... |
29 April 2009
18:11 GMT |
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Capcom is eager to capitalize on the huge popularity that Resident Evil seems to be enjoying at the moment (as seen in the NPD Group numbers for videogame sales in March) and is announcing that Resident Evil Archives, the title given to the Nintendo Wii exclusive version of the original GameCube release, should arriv... |
29 April 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Dead Rising was one of biggest titles to appear in 2006 for the Xbox 360, largely due to the fact that it provided players with some very creative ways to get rid of zombies in an infested mall. A big twist in the gameplay was that it had a time limit, of three game days, or 6 hours of normal gameplay, when the prota... |
22 April 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Valve really knows how to craft successful games. After The Orange Box, which bundled together hits like Half Life 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal, Valve announced that it planned to create a zombie shooter. The game looked so good that pre-orders were 65% bigger than they were for The Orange Box and the title quickly ... |
31 March 2009
13:01 GMT |
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The Resident Evil franchise has always been about killing zombies and potentially saving the whole world from an outbreak of one of the many viruses that either the Umbrella Corporation or other companies that followed it released upon unsuspecting victims. So far so good, nobody complained about that. But when Resi... |
16 March 2009
03:48 GMT |
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Zombies have been an almost integral part of the gaming industry. There's no other experience as intense as knowing that legions of undead are following you and can hardly wait to eat you if you make one wrong step. That's why plenty of zombie shooters have appeared in recent years. But although a lot have... |
10 February 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Call of Duty: World at War, the World War II shooter developed by Treyarch using the engine created by Infinity Ward for Modern Warfare and published by Activision, proved a big success with gamers, challenging the likes of Gears of War 2 and Wii Fit in terms of sales over 2008. One might say that the game managed to... |
19 January 2009
04:42 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead is one of the most popular games released right before the holidays. Despite the fact that it had to battle with all of the sequels to a very popular shooter during that time, it still gained a lot of attention from fans, largely because it offered a solid online experience, courtesy of Valve's Steam... |
15 January 2009
11:41 GMT |
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Resident Evil is currently one of the most successful and popular horror game franchises out there, offering players an excellent zombie shooter gameplay since 1996. The game emphasizes the dark surroundings and different types of monsters combined with a very gritty atmosphere to give players a true horror experienc... |
17 November 2008
03:14 GMT |
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Capcom, like all big publishers interested in profiting from a bit of free publicity, is neither confirming, nor denying the rumors, but more and more reports are surfacing and reveal that Dead Rising, the Xbox 360 published zombie shooting game, is getting a sequel which is in development at the Blue Castle studio.T... |
11 November 2008
03:34 GMT |
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Following the world wide Halloween event which involved a zombie outbreak that was seen as hailing the arrival of the feared Lich King, Blizzard announced having released a new patch for World of Warcraft, bringing the MMO to version 3.03. There are significant changes in the new update and, obviously, a lot of under... |
5 November 2008
18:01 GMT |
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Jumping on the bandwagon of Halloween related events, which already includes zombie action in games like Grand Theft Auto IV, World of Warcraft and City of Heroes/City of Villains, the developers of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning are announcing a special manifestation related to the Witching Night, when the lines... |
30 October 2008
15:51 GMT |
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Following the lead of World of Warcraft, where players are now threatened by a zombie uprising that is connected to the launch of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, Rockstar is saying that players in Grand Theft Auto IV should also be careful about infected individuals who display zombie-like behavior.The in-game ... |
24 October 2008
05:09 GMT |
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We initially missed this, but City of Heroes/City of Villains is now running a Halloween event that is due to continue until November 2. The developers are saying that the extended period for the event is a special thank-you move addressed to all those who have been playing the MMO and supporting it.Because it is Hal... |
24 October 2008
04:27 GMT |
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More than one MMO specialized sites are reporting that World of Warcraft is being assaulted by zombies. The event seems to be a part of the pre-launch period, which began with the 3.02 patch and that will continue until Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion to the Blizzard-made MMO, will finally arrive to the ... |
23 October 2008
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I got a little riddle for you all: what's the only Zombie Apocalypse that people (well, gamers) are actually eagerly awaiting to happen? You get ten shogun shells to store in your survival kit if you answered Left 4 Dead.The rather sad news is that, probably because of an outbreak of zombie infestation which wip... |
26 August 2008
08:44 GMT |
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Capcom is now officially talking about Dead Rising for the Nintendo Wii, following the announcement that the title is in production. The official tag line for the game now reads Dead Rising: Chop Til You Drop, and it aims to perfectly translate the zombie killing action that has already been a success on the Xbox 360... |
22 July 2008
09:22 GMT |
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We all know that the Nintendo DS handheld is a place where a lot of unexpected things can and usually happen. One of them is this new game under development by Gammick Entertainment: Little Red Riding Hood: Zombie BBQ, a title that will bring pure madness to your consoles. And honestly, I have absolutely no idea whet... |
10 June 2008
03:38 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead is being released in November even though it was originally scheduled, albeit unofficially, for a summer release date. It ain't good news, as the zombie survival epic from Valve is at the top of my list of things to play on the PC that involve shooting and a bit of scary things (it really seems that ... |
2 June 2008
14:06 GMT |
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I am sure that when people hear things like "be the zombie", they start thinking about Stubbs, the world's most famous one. Well, he (or it) might be in trouble now, since a new brain-eater has appeared as playable character. His name is Robert and he's searching for his missing wife. That is the Cry of the... |
10 April 2008
02:33 GMT |
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Capcom Japan is 25 years old. Yup, for 25 years they have been making videogames. In my mind, that's a lot of years and a lot of games. And to celebrate their years, Capcom have decided to release a special DVD. The good news is that it features some Resident Evil 5 videos. The bad news is that you can only get ... |
24 March 2008
21:06 GMT |
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The Resident Evil saga is a long one. It involves zombies, mad scientists, innocent little girls, unlikely heroes, big corporations cover-ups, guns and, of course, more zombies. What's there not to like? The games have long drawn players in with the combination of action, mystery and puzzle solving.The latest re... |
5 March 2008
03:15 GMT |
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This weekend, renowned publisher Atari has disclosed its Easter lineup, being one of the first to reveal solid details concerning its upcoming games due for release in Spring. Three games have been announced. Two of them are Nintendo DS exclusives, one of which delivers both aliens and zombies on Nintendo's dual... |
14 January 2008
03:16 GMT |
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Hacking is one serious issue nowadays, as it is a both cheap and efficient weapon. Whiz kids with too much power have become a threat to many states' national security. What's even worse is the fact that the thing that ISPs fear most, botnets, is a really "trendy" thing amongst hackers. As United Press Inte... |
25 September 2007
05:38 GMT |
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When Capcom launched the newest Resident Evil 5 trailer, sites immediately started stirring up some controversy, basically in relation to the fact that players will be in the boots of the White guy, on a mission to kill the Black, zombie guys. It seems that "the first ignorant article has popped up in the form of a b... |
2 August 2007
04:48 GMT |
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