Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the launch of Steam Greenlight, a new platform feature that enlists the community’s help in selecting some of the next games to be released on Steam. Continue reading Valve Releases Steam Greenlight – Gives Power To The Users→
And another mod bites the dust. MERP (aka Middle Earth Role Playing) was a mod that was meant to bring The Lord Of The Rings universe to Skyrim. It was a promising mods and like most promising mods, it got cancelled. No no no, the team did not abandon its project. Warner Bros simply felt threatened – yes, threatened is the correct word to describe it – by this talented modding team and decided to send a Cease & Decist letter to them. Continue reading MERP (Middle Earth Role Playing) Mod for Skyrim receives a C&D letter from Warner Bros→
DICE and Electronic Arts have released a flythrough video from Battlefield 3’s Armored Kill Alborz Mountain map. This video highlights the team’s work on increasing the terrain fidelity in the game and showcases some amazing visuals that are powered by Frostbite 2 engine. In addition, the developer has released some screenshots of this map that can be viewed below. Moreover, DICE has posted an interesting ‘Inside DICE’ opinion piece in which Environment Artist Andrew Hamilton runs us through the creative goals of creating the environments for Battlefield 3: Armored Kill, so be sure to check it out. Continue reading Battlefield 3: Armored Kill – Alborz Mountain Flythrough Video & Screenshots→
Born Ready Games has released the PAX trailer of Strike Suit Zero. Strike Suit Zero is a gorgeous looking unique arcade space shooter in which players will fly a transforming fighter – known as a “Strike Suit” – as they battle to save the Earth. Strike Suit Zero will be digitally released on the PC and game consoles. Enjoy! Continue reading Gorgeous looking arcade space shooter ‘Strike Suit Zero’ gets a PAX Trailer→
Bigpoint today announced that Drakensang Online has surpassed ten million registered players worldwide since the game’s launch one year ago. To celebrate the milestone coinciding with the title’s first anniversary, Bigpoint is giving away 250 units of powerful Ancient Wisdom to all players who registered for the game’s newsletter, followed by a series of community-oriented competitions. Drakensang Online is Bigpoint’s leading free-to-play, hack-n-slash action-MMORPG playable on any web browser. Continue reading Free-To-Play ‘Drakensang Online’ Hits 10 Million Users→
2K Games and Gearbox Software announced today that Borderlands 2 will offer four brand new add-on content campaigns following the release of Borderlands 2 for X360, PS3 and PC. These four add-on content campaigns will each feature several hours of gameplay and introduce new adventures, allies, enemies and environments. They will retail individually for $9.99 (PlayStation Network) / 800 MS Points (Xbox LIVE) / $9.99 (PC). Continue reading Borderlands 2 – Season Pass Announced & Detailed→
Flying Turtle Software has released a new gameplay trailer and a new set of screenshots for its amazing indie platform puzzle game, A Walk In The Dark. A Walk In The Dark looks like a mashup between Super Meat Boy and Limbo, and is Flying Turtle Software’s biggest project that attempts to bring environment and paranormal creatures of a dark fantasy story to a memorable game that is fun to play. Enjoy! Continue reading Indie Platformer ‘A Walk In The Dark’ looks like a mashup between Super Meat Boy and Limbo – Gameplay Trailer→
Team Pro-Bones has released an interesting mod for Half Life 2. In Half-Life 2: Silent Escape scientists have organized the project of “Silent Escape” in which they must bring people to a safe place. The main character of the game is Sean who will visit many locations, such as the dark forest, an abandoned mine and evening forest. Silent Escape is also packed with some noteworthy scripted sequences, as well as various high resolutions textures. Continue reading Half-Life 2: Silent Escape Mod Released→
SEGA Europe and Gearbox Software today announced Escape mode, a new competitive multiplayer mode, for its highly anticipated blockbuster Aliens: Colonial Marines video game, launching February 12, 2013 worldwide. With a competitive death match game mode already revealed earlier in the year, Escape mode is the second in a number of competitive multiplayer modes for Aliens: Colonial Marines and will challenge players in an intense scenario against the universe’s deadliest killers, the Xenomorph. Continue reading Aliens: Colonial Marines – “Escape Multiplayer Mode” Unveiled→
