Crystal Dynamics, a Square Enix studio, announced today that it is working with Geocaching.com, a Groundspeak project as part of its campaign for the upcoming release of TOMB RAIDER. Geocaching represents a rapidly growing community of over 5 million participants seeking over 1.6 million active geocaches hidden globally in locations such as Times Square, the Berlin Wall, and Great Wall of China. Continue reading Tomb Raider ‘unique location-based adventures’ coming from Crystal Dynamics and Geocaching.com→
Juergen Vierheilig released the latest version of his Cinematic Mod for Half-Life 2. As always, some will like it while others might hate it. Still, this is an amazing overhaul for Half-Life 2 and if you haven’t tried it yet, we’d urge you to. Cinematic 11 Mod is a graphical / music total overhaul, as it looks and sounds very different compared to vanilla HL2 and you can view some comparison shots and videos from this latest version bellow. Continue reading Half-Life 2 Cinematic Mod 11 Is Now Available→
Keen Software announced today that the pre-oders for Miner Wars MMO are now available for $19.99 USD in a unique new approach: MMO for one-time purchase with no monthly subscription fees. According to the company, Miner Wars MMO is a massive multi-player online version of the single-player (and cooperative multiplayer) Miner Wars 2081. Continue reading Miner Wars MMO is now available for pre-order→
Icon Games Entertainment announced that Bashi Blocks, an arkanoid indie clone, is now available for free on the PC. Previously released on Nintendo WiiWare, PlayStation Minis and iOS, Bashi Blocks features a unique built-in game editor offering unlimited level design possibilities; you can even structure your own game tournament and make your own game! Continue reading Bashi Blocks is now available for Free on the PC→
The prestige token glitch is one of the worst glitches ever in Modern Warfare 3. It was this glitch that led Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games to ban some users for taking advantage of it. Given its publicity, we’d expect to see a huge number from players exploiting this glitch, but Robert Bowling has just revealed that the actual percentage of the gamers who were caught exploiting it, is only 0.1%, which means that 99.9% of MW3 players are playing it fair and square. Continue reading Robert Bowling reveals that only a very small percentage of players took advantage of the prestige token glitch→
Daedalic Entertainment and publisher Lace Mamba Global today released the official teaser trailer for Deponia, Daedalic’s next big PC adventure game. The official trailer features first impressions of Deponia’s humor as well as its numerous, extensively animated cutscenes. Deponia is the next big adventure game release by Daedalic Entertainment, creators of award-winning genre highlights like A New Beginning and The Whispered World, brought to life with detailed hand-painted backgrounds in widescreen format and top-quality cartoon animation. Continue reading Deponia, Daedalic’s next big PC adventure game, coming to the PC in Spring 2012→
You’ve probably heard the rumors that Diablo III was coming to consoles and that it was confirmed by Blizzard’s community manager, right? Well, guess again as it appears that some people mistook Bashiok’s response to a fan that asked him whether Diablo 3 was coming to consoles or not. That’s at least according to Bashiok himself, who tweeted that his positive response wasn’t meant to be an announcement. Continue reading Diablo III is NOT coming to consoles anytime soon→
There is something really great about all those slow-mo and timelapse videos and YouTube’s member, ‘tjmhay’, has released a lovely and relaxing slow-mo Battlefield 3 video. To make things even better, tjmhay chose Samuel Barber’s classic tune, Adagio for Strings. An excellent choice if you ask us. This is just beautiful and you should definitely give it a go! Continue reading Lovely and relaxing Battlefield 3 slow-mo video→
Tripwire Interactive sent us word about a new update that is available on Steam. The key features of this new update are the Modding and map making tools, as well as the overall performance optimization. While the limited functionality preview versions of the SDK have been available to select modders for a while, this release now makes the full capabilities of the Mod SDK available to everyone. As always, the update will be auto-downloaded next time you start the Steam client. You can view the entire changelog for this update after the jump. Continue reading New Red Orchestra 2 Update comes with Modding and map making tools→
