Bethesda Softworks today announced that Dishonored, the supernatural assassin action game under development at Arkane Studios, will be available in North America on October 9, in Australia on October 11 and throughout Europe on October 12, 2012. Developed under the direction of co-creative directors Raphael Colantonio and Harvey Smith, Dishonored is slated for release on X360, PS3 and PC. Continue reading Dishonored – Release Date Announced, Boxshots Revealed→
Funcom announced that one million gamers are now registered for ‘The Secret World’ beta tests. This impressive number confirms the game’s position as one of the most highly anticipated massively multiplayer online games in the world, and the number is also significantly higher than what Funcom’s previous MMO ‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’ saw at the same time in its pre-launch development phase. Continue reading The Secret World – Open Beta Weekend starts on May 11th→
Firefly Studios today announced that Stronghold 3: Gold Edition will be released on 25 May 2012 for PC and Mac. This new edition will bundle the latest version of Stronghold 3 with a new “Blackstaff” single player campaign. Stronghold 3: Gold Edition will also unlock all 12 historical sieges, previously only available through special editions of the game. Continue reading Stronghold 3: Gold Edition Announced→
Square Enix and IO Interactive have unveiled – via the game’s FB page – that Hitman: Absolution will release world-wide on November 20th 2012. Those of you who pre-order the game will get the Hitman: Sniper Challenge instantly. The code will be redeemable from May 15th on PS3 and Xbox360, August 1st on PC through Steam and you can view its debut trailer after the jump. In addition, Square Enix has released a new screenshot for Hitman: Absolution that can be viewed below. Continue reading Hitman: Absolution hits stores on November 20th→
We’ve expressed our love to 2D games, right? Therefore, it’s only natural to get excited for DeRail Games’ 2D adventure narrative game, Shadow of the Game. Shadow of the Game is an experimental 2D adventure game, focusing on storytelling. The game takes on modern MMO culture, with a humoristic view on the game development industry. Instead of traditional gameplay features, Shadow of the Game consists of a heavy narrative. The core gameplay features are interactive cut scenes, talking with characters, absurd puzzles and making interesting choices along the way. Continue reading PC gamers, meet Shadow of the Game; an experimental 2D top-down adventure game→
Great news for fans of Risen 2: Dark Waters as Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes have revealed the changelog of the game’s first PC patch. According to the publisher, this patch fixes major issues like the SLI stuttering effect, the flickering of trees that was present in Nvidia hardware and the crashes to desktop due to the 7.1 sound system. Moreover, this update will add a new ‘dodge’ move in your fights and players will be able now to block attacks from monsters. You can view the complete changelog of Risen 2’s first patch below and the patch has already went live. Enjoy! Continue reading New Risen 2 PC Patch comes with fixes for both SLI and 7.1 sound systems, adds a dodge move→
As we said yesterday, Black Mesa: Source’s hype machine seems to have started as the company has been more open to the gaming industry the past few months. And today we are happy to bring you some new screenshots from this highly anticipated mod. Spotted by Insomnia’s member, Praetorian, these screenshots shows off some lovely lighting effects and high-resolution textures that are to be expected from a PC-only game. Contrary to most belief, Black Mesa: Source does not look dated. Enjoy and stay tuned for more! Continue reading New Black Mesa: Source Screenshots→
Although we don’t usually share console news, we are really happy that Croteam decided to port Serious Sam 3 to consoles. After all, we love this game and today we can offer you some new information about those upcoming versions. According to Croteam themselves, the X360 version of Serious Sam 3 is planned for release in the next 4 months. After the release of the X360 version, the team will focus on the PS3 one. Continue reading Serious Sam 3: BFE coming to X360 in about 4 months; PS3 at a later date→
Remember that GameStop placeholder we mentioned yesterday? Well, I’ll be damned, it seems that it was not a simple placeholder after all. Keep reading because there is a hidden message at the Blappeture website that was recently launched. This is a HL/Portal fansite, we know that much, so as always take everything you read with a grain of salt. Go ahead and take a closer look at the website’s source code. Come on, go ahead and you will find something that will blow you away… provided that it’s legit. Continue reading Half Life 3 news coming in Q2 2012 according to fansite Blappeture→
XSEED Games has just revealed that Ys Origin will be seeing its release on Steam this month. Although the company hasn’t revealed the exact date, we do know that the Steam version of Ys Origin will feature over 40 achievements, hundreds of leaderboards and true widescreen support at launch. Sounds great, right? You can view a video of Ys Origin below to get a taste of what this game will actually be. Enjoy! Continue reading Ys Origin coming to Steam this month; will feature 40 Steam Achievements→
