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Read More »Tropico 4 hands-on preview
Games offer a lot of fantasy fulfilment options, and while blasting aliens as a bald space marine is enough for some people, there comes a time in every gamer’s life where he/she’s gotta try something different. Put down your imaginary assault rifle for a minute and imagine you’re El Presidente, …
Read More »Watch Dota 2 in action for the first time via tournament replays right now
After barely any info on Dota 2, today the first elimination round of Valve’s International Dota 2 Championship at GamesCom began, with the game played in public for the first time. Matches will continue through the end of the tournament on Sunday. To make it easier to follow the action, …
Read More »New Dark Souls trailer is predictably intimidating
From Software has released new gameplay footage from its Project: Gamer Rage (aka Dark Souls), revealing a little more about the terrifying tumor spiders, head crab dragons and iron giants set to terrorize players in the upcoming Demon’s Souls successor. Technically, the studio is calling this a ‘trailer’, but after …
Read More »BLOG Quit With All These Unoffical Set Photos Please!
SFX Blogger Steven Ellis isn’t keen on how the mobile phone revolution is ruinin his enjoyment of films
Read More »Wii gets a new SKU for Christmas. Gamescom hardware rehashes are becoming a bit of a trend
One of the stranger pieces of news to scme out of Gamescom, this. Nintendo is readying a new version of the Wii for release this Christmas. It’s a revision of the current hardware, dubbed the ‘Wii Family Edition’. The console will ship with two games – Wii Sports and Wii …
Read More »Shadow Complex 2 was shelved for Infinity Blade
Shadow Complex was a big success for Chair Entertainment and its owner Epic Games, so it%26rsquo;s not surprising that last March Chair%26rsquo;s creative director Donald Mustard promised (opens in new tab) the company would be delivering a follow-up. Speaking today at GDC Europe, Mike Capps, president of Epic Games, explained …
Read More »Uncharted 3 GamesCom trailer and screens take to the skies
During the long wait for Uncharted 3 every drop of gameplay is a double-edge sword. We’d really like to go into the game fresh with every amazing action set piece a surprise, and yet we’re so hyped for the title that we can’t wait to watch any new video, like …
Read More »Forza Motorsport 4: hands-on with the new Hockenheim course
We don’t doubt that Forza 4 is going to be excellent, but right now we’re slightly miffed at the lack of sexiness that Microsoft and developer Turn 10 has decided to demo on the show floor here at Gamescom. For starters, it only has one car – the beautiful BMW …
Read More »No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise review
We liked the original No More Heroes when it came out on the Wii way back in the dusky year of 2008 because it was crazy in a way that no Western game could pull off. That’s not a surprise to anyone familiar with Suda51 (real name: Goichi Suda), the …
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