One AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-ground missile costs the United States military around $70,000 each time a drone operator pulls a trigger, which, the army boasts, has happened more than 11,000 times since 2001. It’s this colossal expenditure of resources that drives the gears of the war machine: usage creates demand, and demand creates billions of dollars in revenue. All that money considered, it’s a surprise that the games industry has been so slow on the uptake.
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DUST 514 Review
Halo: Spartan Assault – Xbox One Preview
Shaun McInnis locks, loads, and gets hands-on with the Xbox One version of Halo: Spartan Assault,, the top-down spin-off of the popular sci-fi shooter series, is heading to Xbox One on 24th December. This will be worth it for a lot of players as this console rendition of Spartan Assault comes with loads of extras.
Battlefield 4: China Rising Launch Trailer
Fight for dominance across the vast and majestic Chinese mainland in Battlefield 4 China Rising. EA has released a new trailer to mark the launch of its Battlefield 4 China Rising DLC expansion on Tuesday.
Ryse: Son of Rome – Launch Trailer
Lead legions on Marius’ path of vengeance, fighting throughout the Roman Empire. Ryse: Son of Rome is a stunning action-adventure that follows Marius Titus on a heroic quest to avenge the death of his family, and preserve the honor of Rome, at all costs.
Industry – Trailer 1
Check out the first trailer for the RTS/FPS game, Industry – a real-time strategy/first person shooter where players will be able to take part in battles for controls of a planet either on foot, driving around in a vehicle or tactically controlling the battle from the CEP’s office.
Call of Duty: Ghosts – Squads Trailer
Activision has released this new Squads trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts Squads introduces a whole new level of competition to Call of Duty: Ghosts. Combining the Multiplayer experience with cutting edge AI, Squads lets you play a variety of new game modes with your customized squad-mates.
Alien Rage
Check out the launch trailer for Alien Rage. Back in July, developer City Interactive Games detailed Alien Rage, a downloadeble shooter for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. Along with the description came a cinematic trailer that showed off the game’s setting and art design (a bit Warhammer-ish).
Call of Duty: Ghosts
Call of Duty: Ghosts takes the critically-acclaimed franchise into the next generation. New world. New story. New, next-gen engine. The first live footage we see is a forest. Well, this is Call of Duty – of course it’s a forest.
Battlefield 4 – 17 Minutes Of Gameplay Action
Telling the story of a mission gone horribly, laughably wrong, a four-man squad of U.S. soldiers finds itself behind enemy lines in urban, jungle and industrial settings as part of the Battlefield 4 debut gameplay trailer.
If Girl Talk Made Games: DoomRL And GMDoom
I have two, TWO, things about Doom to show you. This is like being an archaeologist in the jungle and discovering a skellington, but the skellington’s heart is still beating and then, oh noes, there’s a ball chasing me and I’ve dropped my hat and give me back my whip Alfred Molina!