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The Avengers are Coming…
Marvel’s behemoth of a movie The Avengers, directed by none other than geek hero Joss Whedon, has a trailer out. Get your first glimpse of Tony Stark, Thor, Hulk and Scarlett Johansson in this quite spectacular piece of eye candy.
Review – Deus Ex: Human Revolution
To say I’m a fan of the original Deus Ex is a bit of an understatement, and I must admit that my hopes and expectations of this prequel were mountainous. Dozens of trailers and gameplay previews teased me with what was clearly a beautifully designed game graphically, but I was dying to know if the story and gameplay would prove to be as deep and ambitious as its older brother. And now we find ourselves in the present. I have played through the entirety of Human Revolution, and I now know the answer…
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Tagged deus ex: human revolution, eidos montreal, review, square enix
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Renegade Ops Finally has a Release Date
The PC version of Renegade Ops has been floating around without a release date for a while now, but Avalanche have finally announced that it’ll be made available on 14th October on Steam. As a bonus, we get to drive the buggy from Half Life 2 Episode 2, complete with ‘antlion special attack’. Sounds amusing. You can pre-order this game for a tenner, or go for the 4-pack (the game is 4-player co-op, ideal for a bunch of mates) which works out as £5 each. Trailer below shows off what we PC gamers can look forward to. This game looks like a lot of explosive fun…
Learn with Portals
Oh Valve, what crazy awesome things will you do next? Some lucky school kids got to visit Valve HQ to learn about “spatial awareness” and “physics”, when really all they were doing is building cool Portal maps. It’s part of Valve’s new plan of helping educate children in a more engaging way or something. I’ve always thought one of the best ways to get kids to focus on boring and complicated subjects like science and maths is if somehow they were presented in game form, but its not something we see taken remotely seriously very often. Click below to see a video of some of the luckiest little sods…
Primal Carnage Alpha Footage
Last night I dreamt I was in a dinosaur game, and it was awesome. No doubt, it was because I had seen this trailer for Primal Carnage earlier in the day. Being built by a small team in the Unreal Development Kit (UDK), it looks as though it shaping up to be bloody fantastic fun, and for once, this looks like it could be equally fun to play as either a dinosaur or a human. You have to see this.
Max Payne 3 – First In-Game Trailer
Remedy are out, and Rockstar are in. Old Max is out, and bald Max is in. The first gameplay footage of Max Payne 3 has been released, and you can see it below, along with some thoughts…
Holiday from Hell – Dead Island out this Week
Dead Island is out in the UK tomorrow. It was released in America a few days ago in what can only be described as a major balls-up whereby the developers unfinished test build was released for anyone who ordered it on Steam. Oops. Hopefully, the day one patch which came along shortly after has fixed all of those shenanigans and we’ll be able to play the game the way it was meant to be played. I was mostly curious to find out if it contained even a hint of the emotional heartbreak shown in that infamous trailer, but after the slew of hugely varied reviews, it certainly seems unlikely. The game does allow you to chop off zombie’s individual arms though.
Currently Playing – Deus Ex 3, Bastion, Alice
The summer gaming drought is drawing to a close at long last. These past few months have felt very much like the ‘calm before the storm’ because while there were no new releases to get particularly excited about, this autumn is looking to be an unbelievably expensive time. The likes of Battlefield 3, Skyrim, Uncharted 3, Arkham City, Rage, Modern Warfare 3, the latest Assassins Creed game and of course Minecraft, are all due out between now and Christmas. I’ve no idea how I’m gonna find time to play them all. Kicking off the big releases last week was Paul and myself’s most anticipated game of the year, the prequel to one of the best games of all time – Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Is it any good? Well, we’re not willing to go into too much detail yet, but the short answer is a definitive ‘yes’. I also picked up the top-down indie adventure Bastion, and the visually stunning Alice: Madness Returns. Read on to find out what I think so far…
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Tagged alice: madness returns, bastion, currently playing, deus ex: human revolution
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Cyborg Day – JC Denton
There’s only one game I’m thinking of today, but we can’t have a ‘Cyborg Day’ without mentioning the game that preceded today’s big release over a decade ago. I say ‘precedes’, but technically Deus Ex: Human Revolution is set before JC Denton even existed. Alas, let us reminisce. The original Deus Ex was (and still is) one of the best games ever made, so it’s only fitting we celebrate this with some amusing YouTube videos that take the piss out of it. Click below and enjoy.
Cyborg Day – Boy gets a Robot Hand
In other cyborg-related news, a boy from Berkshire, England who was born without his left hand has been granted an actual bionic hand, thanks to a £35k sponsorship from Mercedes. It has nerve inputs which means he can control it with his own muscles, and actually manipulate objects. It looks just like something out of Deus Ex. And what does he do with one of the most technologically advanced prosthetic hands, of which less than one hundred exist the entire world? Plays videogames, of course. Check out the video of it here, its a ridiculously impressive piece of engineering. Read More ››
Cyborg Day – Machine Man
I’d like to tell you about a book. Wait, don’t leave. Its about a man who wants to be a cyborg. Sounds good, right? It’s the story of a scientist who, after chopping off his own leg in a freak accident involving a huge bit of industrial machinery, decides to build himself a new one. He quickly realises the benefits of technology over biology and delves into a journey of self-discovery, voluntary amputation and a bit of love.
DOTA 2 – Live Tournament at Gamescom
There isn’t a single in-game trailer or screenshot available for DOTA 2, Valve’s sequel to the Warcraft 3 mod Defense of the Ancients. Yet, remarkably, they are showing the game off publically for the first time by hosting a huge tournament for it. For the next few days, you can watch the action live, right here. There’s also a CGI trailer out, which I’ve embedded below.