Civilization Online enters closed beta in Korea

Civilization Online has been deathly quiet for almost a year, until now. A new promotional video shows off the new MMO which is being developed for the Asian market: currently in closed beta in Korea. The game is being built by XLGAMES - the same studio behind Lineage - and is led by the well known Eastern developer Jake Song.

How Neocore found their place with The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing 2

It’s a big shift, going from making lavish, Total War-derived tactical games like King Arthur and Lionheart: King’s Crusade to making Gothic, fast-paced action RPGs like the Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing series. But it’s a transition that Hungarian developer Neocore games have made look surprisingly easy, as their stylish art direction seem finally to have caught up with their game design. Not only if Van Helsing every bit the rich visual experience that Neocore have been known for, but it’s also a surprisingly worthy peer of Diablo and Torchlight.

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing 2 seems to break with Neocore past life as a wargame developer, but to hear narrative designer Viktor Juhasz tell it, it was a natural evolution.

You're gonna need a bigger boat: Mojang's next mob will leave Minecraft's waters hostile

Come on in, the water’s lovely. For now. At present, Minecraft’s oceans are occupied only by the squid - which look alarmingly toothy, but are significantly less threatening than the possibility of forgetting about your bubble bar and drowning.

That’s to change. The new ranged mob Jeb is working on will kill squid. And it’ll kill players too.

“On hard difficulty a full diamond armor is recommended,” he warns.

Throw shapes: Thomas Was Alone creator Mike Bithell's live action Volume trailer is a good 'un

Live-action trailers are more often than not the preserve of developers in a position to call up Gustavo Fring after Breaking Bad and make him a competitive offer. But indie Mike Bithell broke the trend in marketing Thomas Was Alone, and has done the same for his non-lethal stealth game, Volume.

Entitled ‘We’ve got your back’, this trailer is a promotional video for a fictional AI corp in Bithell’s near-future Robin Hood story. Unsurprisingly, there’s something amiss.

Gaijin Games become Choice Provisions to avoid offence, announce two new games

My first thought was that Gaijin must be changing their name because they share it with the War Thunder lot in Russia - a fact that can make tagging hell. But the problem is actually the word itself - a Japanese term for ‘foreigner’ which rings alarm bells in some quarters.

So they’ve become Choice Provisions. but proved they’ve still got a way with a name by announcing two new games: Laserlife and Tharsis.

UK game development "back on track", TIGA report suggests

UK games industry body TIGA have conducted a census of Biblical proportions. Rather than send each game developer in Britain to their town of birth to be registered, however, they simply talked to studio bosses across the country and emerged with an intriguing result: employment levels appear to be at their highest point since 2008.

That’s thanks in part to a “surge” of start-ups. Indies.

Winter is coming later: Telltale is saving Game of Thrones details for after E3

While E3, which kicks off today, will drown us all in announcements, reveals, trailers and new footage, there’s always going to be a few games that sidestep the glitz and over-excitement. Last month, IO revealed they won’t be showing off the new Hitman, and now Telltale’s Job Staffer has announced on Twitter that the adventure game studio are still keeping a lid on Game of Thrones. 

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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare gets all sci-fi at E3, but the DLC will still be old fashioned timed exclusives

Microsoft opened its E3 conference with a bang, some booms, a few jetpacks and Sledgehammer’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

Advanced Warfare continues the series’ tradition of impressive, large scale set pieces involving guns and lots of shouting men. Sledgehammer’s trailer has worked its way to the top of the pile though, because it’s got jetpacks and terrifying swarms of machines.

I always thought that those things were missing when I stormed the beaches of Normandy in Call of Duty 2.

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Assassin's Creed Unity will be a four-way co-operative Parisian royal stab 'em up

Ubisoft just hopped on stage at Microsoft's E3 conference to reveal some fresh things about their upcoming, next-generation Assassin's Creed game. Assassin's Creed Unity will be four-way co-op, set in Paris during the French Revolution and won't shy away from plopping a few heads on spikes.

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H1Z1 trailer asks what your evil ways will be

When the apocalypse hits, what manner of evil will you commit to survive? That’s the question at the heart of this splattery-good trailer for Sony’s open-world zombie MMO H1Z1. Alongside such questions comes footage of skidding automobiles, grand fortresses, and many, many dead people. 

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Project Spark, now with more old squirrels

Microsoft’s showed off a bit of Project Spark today, though the trailer mostly focused on two animated characters jumping around game worlds rather than the game’s people have been creating. 

The sci-fi themed content got the spotlight directed its way for a few seconds and then something strange happened. A rare sighting of Conker the Squirrel, who proceeded to carve up the Project Spark logo. 

Somehow, some way, Conker’s going to be in the game. 

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Playdead follow up Limbo with Inside

Playdead erupted onto the indie scene with immeasurable style with Limbo, a hauntingly bleak, depressingly violent trek through monochrome environments. Never before has a game killed off a small child in so many terrifying ways. 

Children in peril seems to be at the heart of Playdead’s new game: Inside. Opting once again for a stylish, minimalist look, Inside appears to looking to recreate the sense of dread so prevalent in Limbo. 

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Analyze This: Rise of the Tomb Raider pits Lara against bears and shrinks

It might not have sold quite as much or quite as quickly as Square Enix wanted it to, but Tomb Raider was a lesson in how to do a reboot. And it ended with a Lara not in the least bit finished with her dangerous gallivanting across the globe. 

Rise of the Tomb Raider is the follow-up to last year’s reboot, with the trailer suggesting that it’s the story of Lara becoming who she was “meant to be”. 

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The Division still has car doors that close when you run into them

Important news from Microsoft's E3 press conference: The Division still has car doors that close when you run into them. Last time we heard from Ubisoft's open-world survival-shooter, we saw a police car have its door shut by a man who was shimmying alongside the vehicle.

Today, in an exciting turn of events, we bear witness to a taxi cab the door of which is shut by a woman crouch-running into it. The Division: Car Doors That Shut is scheduled for a 2015 release.

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Evolve teaser brings bad news: beta and DLC out on Xbox One first

Oh, Microsoft. You really are like the people who feel the need to post “first” in comments sections. Evolve, Turtle Rock’s human versus monster co-operative shooter, was teased at the Microsoft conference in a new trailer. 

The hunters faced off against a new monster; a Cthulhu-style tentacles monstrosity. It looks like a hoot to play and to kill. Unfortunately it also comes with the announcement that Evolve’s beta will be an Xbox exclusive, while the DLC will be on Xbox One first. 

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Dragon Age: Inquisition wants you to feel, but not for the dragons

I know that the latest Dragon Age Inquisition trailer shown off by Microsoft at E3 is meant to be a bit sad and tragic because the piano music and slow motion walking and running informed me of this.

But Dragon Age is really about killing dragons. Well, it is this time. Origins, Awakening and the now unpopular sequel had a surprising lack of dragon slaying given the franchise’s name. No more, though. BioWare’s chucking in loads of dragons. Take a look at some of our scaley chums below. 

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Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris is the long wished for sequel to Guardian of Light

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light was an odd spinoff from the Tomb Raider series. A coop game played from a fixed camera, you and a friend would guide Lara and the 2,000-year-old Mayan warrior Totec through a dungeon of animated statues, traps, and monsters. It was a blast and, till now, there was every indication it was a one off.

Crystal Dynamics are working on a sequel to the spinoff, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris.

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DICE went on a fieldtrip to Hoth to make Star Wars Battlefront as faithful as possible

DICE are dedicated to Battlefront. They know that the series is beloved, and the people making it are as big Star Wars fans as you and I. That’s why they’ve not only been studying LucasFilm’s vast collection of movie props, but actually going on field trips to the planets themselves.

Well, not quite. But they have visited the filming locations of places like Hoth and Endor to ensure the feel of these maps will be as accurate as possible. 

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Mass Effect trailer shows Bioware are taking us “somewhere new”

During their presentation at this year’s E3, EA showed off the first images from Bioware Edmonton's next Mass Effect game. This isn’t Mass Effect 4, this is a new IP in the same universe.

EA weren’t exactly forthcoming when it comes to details of the new game but we did learn that they’re “taking you to a whole new region of space. Somewhere so vast you can just continue onto the horizon.”

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BioWare shows off Dragon Age: Inquisition's dragon slaying and motley crew

The last Dragon Age: Inquisition trailer was all about the soft piano music, but BioWare decided to up its game with a live cello recital to accompany new footage shown at EA’s E3 conference. 

BioWare’s Aaryn Flynn says Inquisition marks the next generation of BioWare games. It seems a bit like posturing, especially when he follows this up by explaining that you can control all of your party members. Like previous Dragon Age games. And basically every RPG BioWare has made. 

I stopped sneering when he showed off an in-game battle between the Inquisitors and a dragon. 

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Criterion have gone off-road for their new all-terrain, multi-vehicle extreme sports game

Criterion Games, beloved for Burnout and their work on Need for Speed, are leaving the well-worn roads of the street and race track behind. Their new game is all about freedom. And possibly madness. 

Instead of souped up Porsches and Ford Mustangs, we’re jumping on the back of ATV. Or taking on the waves on a jetski. Or jumping out a plane in a wingsuit. Yup, Criterion are going all-out extreme sports. 

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The Sims 4 will launch on September 2nd

A woman from EA just killed a man. The Sims 4 will launch on September 2nd.

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Mirror’s Edge 2 trailer: “Faith is a projectile, when she does hit she hits hard and moves on.”

Faith was tattooed right on the eyeball. She did it to make a point and the next Mirror’s Edge is EA exploring the point she’s making. And here’s me thinking you could do all that with a set of contact lenses.

At this year’s E3 DICE showed off some footage of the next Mirror’s Edge.

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Battlefield Hardline brings the noise to city streets, along with tasers and ziplines

If you were skeptical that Battlefield’s move to the urban streets would prevent it being the bombastic battle ground it has been previously, have no fear. There may not have been a tank in sight, but Battlefield Hardline is just as bombastic as it always has been. Just replace some of the explosions with wailing sirens and you’re almost in the right frame of mind. 

Shown off at the E3 EA press conference was a 32 player Heist game, Cops v Criminals duking it out in the streets. The criminals task was to steal an item from an armoured truck and get it to a helicopter extraction. The cops had to bring the noise and justice hammer down on them. Cue destructive car chases and baseball bats to the skull. 

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Good cop: Battlefield Hardline beta sign up page live

Battlefield Hardline, Visceral and EA’s cops and robbers-inspired Battlefield title only just had its “official reveal”, but you can already sign up for its multiplayer beta. 

If the site doesn’t implode first. 

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – E3 2014 Microsoft Stage Demo

Confirmed – Battlefield: Hardline Supports AMD’s Mantle API

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Far Cry 4 – E3 2014 In-Game Trailer

June 10, 2014 John Papadopoulos 10 Comments

Ubisoft has released the E3 2014 trailer for Far Cry 4 that is packed with in-game footage and shows the first minutes of the game. Far Cry 4 looks awesome but let’s be honest here: we all remember what happened to Far Cry 3 so let’s take this E3 trailer with a grain of salt. The game is planned for a November 18th release. Enjoy! Continue reading →

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Tom Clancy’s The Division – Ubisoft Reconfirms 2015 Release Date, Gets New Gorgeous Trailer

June 10, 2014 John Papadopoulos 3 Comments

During its E3 2014 conference, Ubisoft reconfirmed The Division’s 2015 release date. Although we believe that the game will be delayed – eventually – to 2016, Ubisoft is confident that the game will hit streets next year. We are pretty used to Ubisoft’s delays, so we won’t be surprised if The Division misses its 2015 release window. Moreover, the company has released a new E3 cinematic trailer for it that can be viewed below. Continue reading →

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Assassin’s Creed: Unity – New E3 2014 Gameplay Stage Demo Unveiled

June 10, 2014 John Papadopoulos 2 Comments

During its E3 2014 conference, Ubisoft has presented a new gameplay demo for Assassin’s Creed: Unity. In addition, the French company revealed that the game is planned for an October 28th release on PC, Xbox One and PS4. And while the E3 demo looks lovely, I’ll have to remind you that it may not reflect the quality of the end product. Enjoy! Continue reading →

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Rainbow Six Siege Announced – First Official Details + E3 2014 Gameplay World Premiere Trailer

June 10, 2014 John Papadopoulos 9 Comments

Ubisoft today announced Rainbow Six Siege, the upcoming installment of the acclaimed first-person shooter franchise developed by Ubisoft Montreal studio for the new generation of consoles and PC. In addition, the company released its E3 2014 trailer that can be viewed below. Continue reading →

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Far Cry 4 – E3 2014 World Gameplay Walkthrough Premiere

June 10, 2014 John Papadopoulos 2 Comments

It seems that Ubisoft will be revealing a new gameplay walkthrough of Far Cry 4 during Sony’s E3 conference. The bad news for Sony is that the trailer got leaked. The good news is that we can take a look at what Far Cry 4 looks like. In case you’re wondering then no, this is not the demo that was shown during Ubisoft’s conference. This is brand new gameplay trailer. Enjoy! Continue reading →

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Dead Island 2 Officially Announced, Powered By Unreal Engine 4, Developed By Yager

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Deep Silver announced – via a hilarious trailer – that Dead Island 2 is currently under development and that it will hit platforms in Spring 2015. According to its official website, Dead Island 2 is coming only to current-gen consoles and PC, and will be developed by Yager. Enjoy the debut trailer below and stay tuned for more! Continue reading →

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Batman: Arkham Knight – Official Batmobile Battle Mode Gameplay

June 10, 2014 John Papadopoulos 1 Comment

Warner Bros has released the E3 2014 trailer for Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Knight, showcasing the battle mode of the batmobile. In Batman: Arkham Knight, the Scarecrow has returned to unite the Rogues Gallery and has enlisted the Arkham Knight and his immense military force to bring all-out War to Gotham City and destroy the Batman once and for all. Enjoy! Continue reading →

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Ubisoft’s The Crew To Be Released On November 11th

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Ubisoft announced today that The Crew will be available on November 11th for Xbox One, PS4 and PC. The Crew is described as a revolutionary action-driving MMO that takes gamers on a wild ride throughout a massive open world recreation of the United States, brimming with exciting challenges and populated by other real players. Continue reading →

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Grand Theft Auto V – Coming This Fall On PC

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The worst kept secret has finally been unveiled. Rockstar Games has just announced that Grand Theft Auto V will be coming to PC (as well as PS4 and Xbox One) this Fall. Not only that, but the company has also released the first trailer from this upgraded version that can be viewed below. Continue reading →

Alienware Alpha revealed, a $550 Steam Machine available this holiday

Today at E3 2014, Alienware unveiled its entry in the Steam Machine lineup. The Alienware Alpha gaming console is a gaming PC designed from the beginning to bring your favorite Steam games into the living room—even if SteamOS and the Steam Controller isn't quite ready yet.

Level edit your own massacres in Hotline Miami 2

Tim Clark at 12:47 on 10 June 2014

The brains which designed the original levels in twitchcore top-down murder-'em-up Hotline Miami must have been fetid, broken, wrong places. And now they can be your brains too. At E3 Dennaton Games has released a new trailer showing for the second (and supposedly final) game in the series, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, showing how you can create and share your own levels. This is that…

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Magicka 2 reveal teaser shows a day in the life of a wizard

Cory Banks at 14:31 on 10 June 2014

During the Sony E3 2014 press conference, Paradox Interactive unveiled the next edition of its Magicka series, Magicka 2. And while the reveal trailer doesn't show what's new in the magic-'em up, it does show how lonely life must be for an out-of-work wizard.

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No Man's Sky gameplay footage shows dinosaurs and space combat

Shaun Prescott at 15:11 on 10 June 2014

Brand new footage from No Man's Sky, Hello Games' procedurally generated open world space exploration game, aired during Sony's E3 press conference earlier today. Previously no platforms had been announced for the title, but tonight's conference specified that it will "come to consoles" first on PS4, which is basically confirms it will be coming to non-consoles as well. I mean, it's not 100 per cent, but it basically is.

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So GTA V will now launch to PC along with a current gen version so the modders can't launch an iEnhancer Mod to make it really shine? Poor Rockstar, they will still find ways to improve it.

Also, am I the only one who though "more of the same" with the next Assassin's Creed? Yes, it looks better, but there was nothing new to it.

Or you know so they could work on improvements for their engine and higher quality assets across the board for all three platforms at once. It would have been a shame to release a port of the PS360 version only to release a version with much higher quality assets and effects a few months later.

As for Assassin's the crowed tech looks better than ever and they have 4 player campaign co-op now. So there is some new twists, but much licke CoD I don't think they want to rock the ship too much with major changes to the core gameplay loop. Not while the franchise is still so popular anyway. If it's not broke, don't fix it as they say. But what do I know I never even finished 2.

Serious-face Sam: Croteam are making a first-person puzzle game called The Talos Principle

Sam might have kept a straight face while he disassembled those bomb-handed baddies, but his makers at Croteam have remained resolutely silly throughout their 20-year history.

Until now, it seems. The Talos Principle is a first-person game about solving increasingly tricky puzzles woven into, and I quote, a metaphysical parable about intelligence and meaning in an inevitably doomed world.

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State of Decay and Fable are selling for pennies in Green Man Gaming's Microsoft sale

You wouldn’t know it to watch their E3 thingummy last night, but Microsoft are starting to take PC games seriously again. Just last week Phil Spencer talked about upping the company’s “gaming presence on Windows”. And in the last year, they’ve quietly been releasing updated versions of the best games in Microsoft’s RTS archives: Rise of Nations, Age of Mythology, and Age of Empires II.

Perhaps in recognition of those fledgling efforts, Green Man Gaming have made Microsoft their publisher of the day. Fable’s going cheap, alongside State of Decay and the Age Of games. And you can make a few pennies playing them too.

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No Man's Sky trailer introduces a frontier filled with three-storey dinosaurs and X-Wings

No Man’s Sky is what happens if you take the median colour scheme of every E3 game - black, blue, and charcoal - and invert it in Microsoft Paint. Thousands attempted to adjust their displays when it was trailered at the Sony conference last night, drowning press and punters alike in a technicolour wash of dandelion yellows, pomegranate reds and orange, er, oranges.

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There's a bit at 1:10 in the new Batman: Arkham Knight trailer that'll make you do a glee-laugh

If you’re playing Watch Dogs, you might have had your fill of playing Batman by the time Arkham Knight rolls around in 2015.

But Rocksteady have done a good job of distinguishing their latest from every other growly-voiced vigilante sim currently out there. Starting with a side-strafing tank. It all gets a bit Titanfall, frankly.

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Yager-bomb - Spec Ops: The Line devs play dambusters with Dreadnought

BOOM. Another Yager announcement drops, the timpani in E3’s overture. First came Dead Island 2, the unexpected do-over of Techland’s action RPG by the handwringy chaps behind Spec Ops: The Line. And now this: a futuristic dogfighting game named Dreadnought.

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Hands-on with Alien: Isolation — it's got guns and human enemies now

What is a scare? You may as well ask what a fright is. Scientists have been puzzling over what a fright is for hundreds of years, but the best answer we have is that we simply don't know. The dozens of scare glands scattered throughout our terrorised bodies remain an elusive mystery to us. What are they for? Why do they startle us so?

And what exactly is it about aliens in dark and abandoned space stations that triggers these glands to spunk out their juicy fear-enzymes? Science may never understand, but Alien: Isolation is a thorough and provably effective exploration of the theme of arrghh. 

In my latest playthrough of Sega's first person survival horror game — and following the earlier reveal of the single, independent, AI-driven xenomorph terror — I got to see some more enemies and shoot a few guns. 

But can human enemies be as frightening as the alien? After all, if you stop and think about it, humans are just alien aliens, right?

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How Far Cry 4's co-op works

There’s been an encouraging trend towards games for between two and four players at E3 so far this year, particularly at the Ubisoft booth. To The Division’s squad survival antics and Assassin’s Creed: Unity’s murder with mates add Far Cry 4, which features a drop-in co-op mode.

It works thusly.

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Ubisoft scrapped Rainbow Six: Patriots so they could "lead with multiplayer"

Rainbow Six: Siege is actually the second time the tangos ‘n’ tactics series has been rebooted in the last half a decade. The first time it was Rainbow Six: Patriots - a heavily narrative-driven affair which drew from anti-Wall Street feeling and domestic terrorism.

But Ubisoft Montreal’s paymasters canned Patriots before it ever saw an E3. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says that’s because they wanted to take a nearly opposite approach.

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Habitat will hit Steam Early Access in July with a weaponised Statue of Liberty

It’s a good thing that humanity is filthy and just dumps its rubbish everywhere, because one day, we might need all the debris orbiting Earth to make new habitats out of. There are bound to be floating lavatories and all those essentially just flying around out there, waiting for someone to put them to good use. 

Habitat predicts that using this space junk to build life-sustaining homes will be pretty tough though. The physics-based orbital builder makes construction look just as messy as the floating garbage. You’ll be able to find out quite how messy next month, when it hits Steam Early Access.

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Dark Souls 2 DLC will have a challenge route for the masochists among you

Last week From Software revealed that they were working on The Lost Crowns trilogy, a three pack of DLCs to expand Dark Souls 2. The first release, Crown of the Sunken King, which is due out on 27 July, has had a few details shed on it by global producer Atsuo Yoshimura.

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Magic: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2015 gets a bit metal

It must be rather challenging to create a trailer for a digital card game. Wizards of the Coast have had a go, anyway, putting together a video for Magic 2015. 

Wizards decided to go down the heavy metal route, and that’s probably not a bad idea given the genre’s magical proclivities. 

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Naughty Dog co-founder and ex-THQ president Jason Rubin joins Oculus VR

Palmer Luckey and Co really are building a super team over at Oculus VR. Soon, there won’t be anyone left for them to hire. It’ll get to the point where they’ll end up just picking people up off the street, bundling them into black vans and then putting them to work. 

Oculus VR’s latest hire is Jason Rubin, co-founder of Naughty Dog and THQ’s last president before the publisher went bankrupt. Rubin’s new position is as head of worldwide studios, leading the company’s first-party content initiatives. 

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Doom to be revealed at QuakeCon; expect an unholy union of metal and flesh

It can’t have been a decade since Doom 3, but it has been. That’s a long time to go without fighting off the legions of hell with a BFG. But it’s back. You might already be waiting for the beta after pre-ordering Wolfenstein: The New Order. 

For the time being we’ll have to be sated by this teaser trailer, but next month will see its proper reveal at QuakeCon 2014.

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Alien: Isolation gets Oculus Rift support; it's like having a facehugger on you while you play

Scary androids are almost as scary as scary xenomorphs. This is what the Alien: Isolation E3 trailer has taught me. The lifeless eyes and not-quite-human, expressionless face. Awful stuff. 

Creative Assembly’s put together a few clips of Amanda Ripley freaking out, breathing heavily and exploring the station she’s stuck on with the xenomorph, androids and men with guns. 

I’m sure that the recently revealed Oculus Rift support is going to make it a relaxing adventure. 

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Fatal Mortal Kombat X trailer is heart-stopping

Mortal Kombat X’s cinematic trailer was a flashy, but ultimately disappointing brawl between mainstays Sub Zero and Scorpion. There was also some god awful music that was entirely out of place. Not a great first impression.

Not to worry! During Sony’s conference last night, Warner Bros and NetherRealm showed off two brawls and a slew of fatalities. Direct your eyes towards the grisly battles below. 

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – New E3 2014 Gameplay Footage Revealed

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Project CARS Gets A Release Date, Coming This November On PC, PS4, Xbox One, SteamOS & WiiU

June 10, 2014 John Papadopoulos 4 Comments

Slightly Mad Studios has announced the release date of its gorgeous-looking racer, Project CARS. According to the company, Project CARS is currently planned for a November release on PC, PS4, Xbox One, Linux, SteamOS and WiiU. Continue reading →

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Homefront: The Revolution – E3 2014 Gameplay Footage Unveiled

June 10, 2014 John Papadopoulos 9 Comments

During SpikeTV’s E3 coverage, Deep Silver and Crytek unveiled the first gameplay footage for the new Homefront game that will be powered by CRYENGINE, Homefront: The Revolution. Homefront: The Revolution will throw players into a near future dystopia and will feature free-roaming environments. The game is planned for a 2015 release on PC, Xbox One and PS4. Enjoy and kudos to OnlySP for spotting it! Continue reading →

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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor – E3 2014 Screenshots + Trailer

June 10, 2014 John Papadopoulos 1 Comment

Warner Bros and Monolith Productions today released new screenshots and an all-new trailer for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. The trailer showcases the depth of the Nemesis System and shows how the stats, appearance and personality of each nemesis are different for every player. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is scheduled for an October release. Enjoy! Continue reading →

Dragon Age: Inquisition devs talk factions, dragons, and a 50-hour story arc at E3 2014

After our double-dose of Dragon Age: Inquisition videos yesterday, we were already pretty amped up for the huge open-world take on the Dragon Age mythos. Today, executive producer Mark Darrah and creative director Mike Laidlaw joined the Twitch.tv E3 streaming broadcast to talk more about the game’s story, crafting systems, and squad-control mechanics.

Far Cry 4 Blood Dragon isn't out of the question, says Ubisoft

 

Samuel Roberts at 07:43 on 11 June 2014

The second thing everyone no doubt thought about after Far Cry 4 was announced (the first was "Oh, cool! What the flying hell is that villain wearing?") was if there'd be a Blood Dragon-like spin-off to follow. Last night, I sat down with Far Cry 4's creative director Alex Hutchinson and asked if that would be the case. Rather than getting a no comment, he gave positive signs that something 'outlandish' could be in the offing.

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Assassin's Creed: Unity dev talks player freedom and open-ended assassinations

 

Samuel Roberts at 08:45 on 11 June 2014

After getting duly excited about yesterday's big reveal of Assassin's Creed: Unity's four-player co-op mode and NPC-packed setting, we sent Sam sneaking past the guards at E3 to bring us more info. He spoke with Alexandre Amancio, creative director at Ubisoft Montreal, about the changes Ubisoft is making to the way Assassin's Creed handles freedom and complexity. Here's the transcript of that interview.

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Juju announced, a lighthearted platformer for kids from the Shadow Warrior team

 

Andy Chalk at 09:30 on 11 June 2014

The name Flying Wild Hog, if it means anything to you at all, probably invokes images of blood-soaked, over-the-top first-person shooters. This is the studio that gave us Hard Reset and the wildly entertaining Shadow Warrior reboot, after all. So why is the studio's next project a colorful, kid-friendly platformer about a shaman panda named Juju and his lizard sidekick Peyo? I can't even begin to guess, so instead I'll just show you this trailer.

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Obsidian's Armored Warfare E3 trailer mixes recon, artillery and MBTs

 

Andy Chalk at 10:00 on 11 June 2014

I'm still not sure how it is that Obsidian Entertainment ended up doing a multiplayer armored combat simulator, but here it is: The Armored Warfare E3 trailer, a brief gameplay clip demonstrating how recon, MBTs and artillery will work together on the battlefield.

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Sid Meier's Civilization V now available for SteamOS and Linux

 

Andy Chalk at 10:30 on 11 June 2014

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Far Cry 4 interview with creative director Alex Hutchinson at E3 2014

 

PC Gamer at 11:06 on 11 June 2014

Ubisoft kicked off its E3 2014 press conference with the first five minutes of the upcoming Far Cry 4, and then showed us some of its new cooperative action in a lengthy gameplay video. We've played it, and PC Gamer Editor-in-chief Evan Lahti spoke to Ubisoft's Alex Hutchinson at the event about what the developer is adding to its successful FPS formula.

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According to Jeff on Giant Bomb E3 Preview and Predictions podcast the Halo collection was being demoed on PC at judges week with prompts for mouse movement that swapped to gamepad when the person demoing it picked up the controller...

Or they could have launched the enhanced PC version for Christmas and then announce the current gen version of the game as "the definitive version, as good as on PC".

But hey, at least they are launching it on PC, right?

The problem with that mentality is that before you're able to realize it, people will get bored and you'll have a hard time taking them back. It was the new naval battles that made people buy 3 and 4, not the same old gameplay.

And I'm still at AC 3, I just can't force myself to play it.