F.E.A.R. Online – Beta Phase Launches May 26th, New Screenshots Released
Aeria Games announced today the launch of the beta of F.E.A.R Online, a new-look free-to-play version of the celebrated horror series. The beta will commence on May 26th and beta keys will be available soon. Players can sign up for the beta at its official website. Continue reading
Unreal Engine 4-powered “Loading Human” Gets STEM System Trailer
Untold Games and Sixense Entertainent have released a new video featuring Sixense’s STEM System in use with Loading Human, the virtual reality adventure game powered by groundbreaking controls and set in a thrilling sci-fi world. Continue reading
Distance Build 2780 – Spiritual Successor To Nitronic Rush – Alpha Gameplay Footage
YouTube’s member ‘Koshiir Ra’ has shared a new video from Distance’s build 2780, showing off what this spiritual successor to Nitronic Rush looks like in its current state. Distance is a survival racing game that combines the intense action of arcade racing with the exploration of an atmospheric world. Players control a unique car that allows you to boost, jump, rotate, and even fly through a chaotic and mysterious city. It looks kind of fun, so go ahead and take a look! Continue reading
World of Speed – New Screenshots & Trailer Released
Slightly Mad Studios has released a new batch of screenshots and a trailer for its upcoming free racer, World of Speed. According to the team, this short World of Speed video features just a few of the many cars you’ll be able to drive in the game including the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, McLaren MP4-12C & Pagani Huyara. World of Speed comes really close to the visuals achieved by Project CARS, so make sure to check the following images if you are fans of racing games. Enjoy! Continue reading
Sweet Lily Dreams – 16Bit Classic Action JRPG – Now Available On Steam
Rose Portal Games announced today that its 16bit action JRPG, Sweet Lily Dreams, is now available on Steam. In Sweet Lily Dreams you play Lily, along with her comrades, Faith (a dog) and Curly Trick (a cat) as they venture into the realm of dreams and end up at the center of the battle between good and evil. Continue reading
Dragon Age: Inquisition – New Screenshots Released
Electronic Arts and Bioware have released some new screenshots for Dragon Age: Inquisition, showing the Fortress of Adamant. Dragon Age: Inquisition will be powered by DICE’s Frostbite engine and promises to avoid the idiotic mistakes of its predecessor. The game is scheduled for an October 7th release. Enjoy! Continue reading
War Thunder: Ground Forces now available, 6 million pilots to receive their tank licenses
If you’re one of War Thunder’s six million players, you can now take a break from shooting things out of the sky and blow stuff up on ground level. Yes, the thunder of planes is about to become the thunder of tanks as the Ground Forces expansion is now open to everyone and all.
Create your own League of Legends pro team with Fantasy LCS
If you’re a sports person or socialise with people of that mindframe, you’ll probably be familiar with Fantasy Football. You create a team made up of your favourite players, each week you tot up their goals and other point-scoring activities, and at the end of the season one of your social group is crowned the winner.
Riot have decided this would be a pretty cool set up for their League of Legends tournament: League Championship Series. Now, with Fantasy LCS, you can create your dream LoL team with the best pro players, and try to ‘win’ the series.
Rumours abound that Google will buy Twitch for over $1 billion
There’s nothing like a good acquisition to make sense of those unfathomably large numbers. Two Twitches will buy you an Oculus VR, we’ve learned, but one Twitch is worth more than two Evil Genius-built AI firms.
How do we know that? Because Google are said to have scooped up the premier streaming service for a reported $1 billion.
Shelter 2 takes its cues on loss from XCOM: name your cubs and log them in a family tree
Shelter 2 is the sequel to our Julian’s best game of 2013 - a mother badger sim so harrowing it briefly made Watership Down appear to be the age-appropriate animal cartoon everybody’s mums believed it to be.
We return to the wilderness as a rather toothier lynx - a change which has threatened to turn Shelter away from survival horror towards a surer-footed style of stealth. But make no mistake: this is still a game about loss.
Might and Delight have announced that players can now name their cubs, and record the survivors in a family tree - a sort of inverse XCOM Memorial Wall.
Wildstar was built by World of Warcraft devs determined to "do it right this time"
Wildstar is Carbine Studios’ first project - and it began just as work on World of Warcraft’s launch wrapped up, back in 2005.
“It was about 20 or so of the senior leads off of WoW basically saying, ‘Hey, we want to take that game but do it right this time’,” said Carbine’s Jeremy Gaffney.
The game that’s emerged in the decade since has been built by two camps within Carbine - one which wanted to do WoW better, and another that wanted to do “anything but WoW”.
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