Deep Silver put out a trailer announcing Saints Row IV (that’s FOUR to you people who can’t read Roman) yesterday! It launches on 20th August 2013 in the US and 23rd August 2013 in the boring parts of the world. Me and Ye Olde Man Gillen had a look at it with a cynical eye, KG’s cat gently humping him on the leg throughout.
Gritty-looking Russian-accented choochoo-themed tunnel shooter Metro: Last Light was bought from THQ by Deep Silver, and will come out in North America on May 14th and everywhere else May 17th Read the rest of this entry »
A mouse click has never been so powerful. The idea of simulating an aesthetically pleasing pastime, only to make it even more aesthetically pleasing, is something that James Brown of Ancient Workshop has embraced wholeheartedly. Read the rest of this entry »
ioShock Infinite puts players in the shoes of U.S. Cavalry veteran turned hired gun, Booker DeWitt. Indebted to the wrong people and with his life on the line, DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean.
There’s dedication & there’s dedication. The second, slantier version means there’s been a bit more effort being put in. Let’s use Quake as an example: it’s the difference between someone still making Quake levels all these years later & someone who has built a Quake editor for modern sensibilities, making it all wizzy. Read the rest of this entry »
A sequel to the 2011 PSN title Payday: The Heist, Payday 2, is in development at Starbreeze Studios, with 505 Games handling publishing duties, and you can expect it to release this summer. The four characters in the original game – Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains – all return for this outing, which finds them in Washington, D.C. to start an “epic crime spree.”
If you haven’t finished Dead Space 3, plan to, and care about the story as well as the severance, beware. Somewhere in the back of my space-scarred and delirious mind, I knew that there was some DLC for Dead Space 3 in the pipeline.
Lost Planet 3 has players return to the extreme and unpredictable conditions that characterized the Lost Planet series. Players take on the role of Utility Rig pilot Jim Peyton who leaves Earth to take on a hazardous but lucrative contract on E.D.N. III.
Combining auto-running with a voxel style, Voxel Runner is the newest in the vaunted series of games with very literal names. It’s also not a bad debut (from developer Dizzy Pixels) and addition to the sub-genre despite the numerous competitors (The Impossible Game and its ilk) that came before it.
What’s the best and most fitting way to do a Deadpool trailer, especially one for Activision’s upcoming third person action adventure game developed High Moon Studios? Have the man himself make it of course. And by god, it is as glorious as 1 minute and 49 seconds can get.