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Minecraft – Pet Wolves!
The latest Minecraft update is on its way, and will feature pets! Pet wolves, to be precise. They are both cute and fearsome, as this new video suggests. Look at the way they shake themselves after having a swim! I know nothing more about this, but I can’t wait. Click below to see the video.
Batman Arkham City Gameplay Trailer
Ooooh yes, this is looking good. New trailer for Batman Arkham City is below and it shows off Batman doing what he does best, in the form of swooping around and battering nutters. The city itself looks great too, I look forward to exploring its dark alleys and moody streets, and should prove to be a vastly different environment to the original Asylum.
Fallen Earth: Free 30-day Full Account Giveaway!
Yes, you read it right. There’s currently a free key giveaway for the post-apocalyptic MMO awesomeness that is Fallen Earth! Alienware are running this offer from their Alienware Arena site, so go and get one, NOW. (My knowledge of this, courtesy of Sam McCulloch.)
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Unreal – coolest tech demo ever?
Unreal have revealed what their new engine will be capable of. Many games have used the Unreal engines as their backbone (Bioshock, Batman Arkham Asylum, Bulletstorm to name a few recent ones) so its hard to contain the excited yelps when you see a video like this. New lighting effects, ‘bokeh’ depth of field, and lots of other phrases for “snazzier graphics” mean the next generation should be suitably prettified.
Call of Juarez: The Cartel trailer
There’s a new Call of Juarez game coming out, and its going in a very different direction. Scrapping the wild west setting for a modern one is a bold move – don’t we have enough modern shooters these days? Call of Juarez’s Wild West felt like a breath of fresh air in a genre saturated with modern shooters. Still, if this trailer is anything to go by, they’re at least trying to keep the themes of lawmen vs outlaws, and I’m certainly interested enough to keep my eye on it. It’s due out in Summer 2011. See the trailer below.
Magicka – Wizards at War
This amusing indie game snuck past our radars last month, but a new trailer for a Vietnam expansion?/sequel? grabbed our attention quite easily. It looks like a cross between Castle Crashers and Diablo, with an emphasis on casting all manner of crazy spells and mowing down mobs of enemies. We have since both bought it on Steam and will be trying the co-op mode sometime soon, but in the meantime, check out the two highly entertaining trailers below.
The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2 – Eurogamer
Eurogamer have an interesting article chronicling the story of Axel Gembe, the German hacker responsible for breaking into Valve’s network and releasing the source code for the then-unfinished Half Life 2 back in 2003. This is the first time we’re able to hear the story from his point of view, and it outlines the entire event pretty well. Check it out over at Eurogamer.net. The story of Half Life 2’s development is pretty much a legend among PC gamers and its weird hearing this story so many years down the line. Who remembers that early screenshot? Ah, good memories… Read More ››
Telltale making Jurassic Park
Telltale have been busily making fun point and click adventure games for a while now, with mostly good results. I didn’t play any of the new Sam and Max games, admittedly, but I tried the Strong Bad and Monkey Island episodes, and they seemed alright. Just nothing spectacular. Then recently, they’ve been trying some new game ideas such as Late Night At the Inventory, a simple but entertaining poker game. They also made the surprise jump to a more mainstream popular franchise in Back to the Future (the second episode of which is out today, in fact). Still, none of these have piped my interest as much as the prospect of a JURASSIC PARK GAME! YEEEAH!
RAGE – New Trailer
We haven’t mentioned id’s Rage around here yet, and with a new trailer out today which shows off some of the gameplay, nows as good a time as any to fix that. I’m pretty excited about the prospect of Rage – the makers of Doom and Quake know what makes a good FPS, and since this is the first new IP of theirs in over a decade I reckon that excitement is more than justified.
Heartbreaking Zombie Trailer of the Week
There’s a new zombie game on it’s way this year, and it’s called ‘Dead Island’. All we know about it so far is it looks like Dead Rising, but actually serious. How serious? Well, just take a look at this trailer. We’ve never been made to feel as terrible about the events taking place in a game than this very original, mind-blowing, gut-wrenching trailer did. Read More ››
The Brotherhood is coming…FINALLY!
Assassins Creed Brotherhood is finally available to pre-order for PC, with the confirmed release date of March 18th. So if like me (to be honest I think I’m the only one) you’ve been patiently waiting for the PC release, it’s time to rejoice! As an added bonus, there’s a rumour that the game will not include Ubisoft’s dreaded new DRM system which requires you to have a constant online connection to their servers… Perhaps they’ve finally seen the light. Read More ››