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Final Fantasy XIV – A Realm Reborn Trailer and Announcement

Final Fantasy XIV – A Realm Reborn Trailer and Announcement

Square Enix, Inc., the publishers of SQUARE ENIX interactive entertainment products in the Americas, announced today the fully-redesigned, massively multiplayer online adventure FINAL FANTASY XIV: A R... Read More

Crysis 3 18 min single player video shows gorgeous graphics

Crysis 3 18 min single player video shows gorgeous graphics

Watch the single player interactive demo for Crysis 3, and make the decisions that matter: Decide the best strategy to take care of your objective. Whether you decide to silently stalk soldiers thr... Read More

Crytek producer defends Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut decision

Crytek producer defends Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut decision

In an interview with CVG, Crytek and Crysis 3 producer Mike Read has defended Bioware's decision of releasing the Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut DLC after widepsread complaints about the game's original e... Read More

Vigil Games hiring for first-person shooter

Vigil Games hiring for first-person shooter

Vigil Games, creators of the Darksiders series, are hiring for a first-person shooter, according to a job advertisement on their website. The role advertised is for a Senior Gameplay Programmer for... Read More

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 falls back into 2013

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 falls back into 2013

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 has been set back for a second time, after originally being given an August release, which then became October. Now Sniper: Ghost Warrior is now releasing on 15th January, m... Read More

Choose your Daring Escape in this Dishonored trailer

Choose your Daring Escape in this Dishonored trailer

Corvo, Dishonored's masked protagonist, has infiltrated the Boyle Mansion, but things have gone poorly and the City Watch is on his tail. You're in his shoes, what do you do? Well in the latest Dis... Read More

Witcher 3 may include multiplayer

Witcher 3 may include multiplayer

According to a job posting for CD Projekt Red's upcoming "RPG in a dark fantasy world", widely believed to be the Witcher 3, it may contain a multiplayer in some form. The listing says CDPR are hir... Read More

Explore Alt-Minds, a cross-media interactive fiction

Explore Alt-Minds, a cross-media interactive fiction

Alternate reality games have the power to be exceptional pieces of interactive media, Bioshock 2's Something in the Sea viral campaign was truly wonderful, weaving an excellent interactive story for m... Read More

Microsoft to open new Xbox studio in London

Microsoft to open new Xbox studio in London

According to trade publication MCV, Microsoft are to open a new games studio in London. The company are currently in the process of hiring senior staff for the new studio, adding to Microsoft's gro... Read More

Let’s A’Go! Trackmania 2 Goes Platforming in New DLC

Let’s A’Go! Trackmania 2 Goes Platforming in New DLC

Ubisoft's popular PC racing game Trackmania 2 is back with new DLC, titled Platform. Things have taken a bit of a bizarre twist, but hey, if it results in stellar gameplay, why not? Nadeo's DLC upd... Read More

Arkane Studios: We like games that aren’t just a shooting gallery with scripted pop-ups

Arkane Studios: We like games that aren’t just a shooting gallery with scripted pop-ups

Dishonored developers have spoken out against scripted linear shooters which don't allow players to play creatively, and have called Dishonored a first-person action game instead of a first-person s... Read More

Serious Sam 3: BFE Linux Version announced

Serious Sam 3: BFE Linux Version announced

Croteam and Devolver digital have announced that Serious Sam 3: BFE will be released on Linux as well. The game was released on the PC last year and the Linux version will feature all the content re... Read More

This new Planetside 2 trailer shows the determination of a soldier

This new Planetside 2 trailer shows the determination of a soldier

Drop in the middle of the war on Auraxis. Follow the path of one soldier as he powers through the battlefield determined to fulfill his mission. The war is raging, but his mission is clear. Death is N... Read More

Growlanser: Wayfarer of Time trailer is here

Growlanser: Wayfarer of Time trailer is here

Never before released outside of Japan and widely considered the best entry in the long‐running franchise, Growlanser: Wayfarer of Time tells of a land—once rich with culture and technology—long... Read More

Jade Raymond wants better Kinect/Move integration in hardcore games

Jade Raymond wants better Kinect/Move integration in hardcore games

Jade Raymond who is currently working on Splinter Cell Blacklist at Ubisoft has revealed that she wants motion controls to be better integrated in hardcore games which is actually benefical and incr... Read More

Planet Crashers 3D 3DS eShop Trailer looks fantastic

Planet Crashers 3D 3DS eShop Trailer looks fantastic

In Planet Crashers 3D players take on the role of a young, bright cadet who has recently graduated from the esteemed Planet Crashers Academy and is ready to take on his or her first assignment-and it'... Read More

Risen 2: Dark Waters – Choices Trailer

Risen 2: Dark Waters – Choices Trailer

The console versions of Risen 2 offer extra content on both platforms. They contain the episode "The Air Temple" which features several hours of additional gameplay. In this sub-plot the hero embarks ... Read More

Tribes: Ascend Update Introduces the Twinfusor, New Maps and Balances

Tribes: Ascend Update Introduces the Twinfusor, New Maps and Balances

The so-called "world's fastest shooter" just received a new update. As a free to play online FPS, Tribes: Ascend has been receiving regular updates and the new Twinfusor might just be the best yet. ... Read More

Death Comes for All: Darksiders 2 Trailer Razes the Dead

Death Comes for All: Darksiders 2 Trailer Razes the Dead

Death, the new anti-hero of Darksiders 2, is a troubled man. He has to kill everyone. Being Death this is obviously a daunting task. Especially in a world of angels, demons, goggly eyed monsters and t... Read More

Halo 4 E3 2012 Accolade Highlights Trailer Features Scary Cortana

Halo 4 E3 2012 Accolade Highlights Trailer Features Scary Cortana

343 Industries and Microsoft Game Studios has released an "Accoladed Highlights" trailer for the upcoming XBox 360 exclusive Halo 4. Blurbs from leading publications feature throughout the trailer, al... Read More