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News XCOM: Enemy Unknown Appeases Fans, Returns To Strategy
If you were one of those people that hopped straight onto NeoGAF to voice your disgust at 2K Marin's first-person XCOM reboot, then this announcement is for you; the latest issue of Game Informer magazine has revealed that Civilization developer Firaxis Games is currently working on a new XCOM title named XCOM: Enemy Unkown -- and, yes, it's a strategy game
The title is planned for PlayStation 3 this fall, and while details are currently scarce, a full blowout is included in this month's Game Informer magazine. Interestingly, the first XCOM release was subtitled "Enemy Unknown", though it's not believed that this ne...
News Ken Levine Disappointed With The Physical Interest In BioShock: Infinite's Elizabeth
Irrational Games' outspoken gaffer, Ken Levine, has spoken out about his "disappointment" regarding the gaming community's sexualised response to BioShock: Infinite's female protagonist, Elizabeth
The luminary said in an interview with OXM that creating a sex symbol was never the developer's intent, and that it's a shame that gamers are so focused...
News Spec Ops: The Line Plays With Sand, Shoots Up Skylines
The soldiers of Spec Ops: The Line haven't got time to sit around making sand-castles -- there's a war to fight
2K's released a new trailer for the upcoming third-person shooter, which shows various montages of gameplay footage. There's shooting, there's explosions and there's sand. The game's definitely got a unique style to it, but we're a little...
News VGA 2011: Latest BioShock Infinite Trailer Gives Us Goosebumps
Leave it to BioShock Infinite to pull something amazing out of the bag
And who knew it would be so simple? The latest trailer for Irrational Games' magnus opus shows destruction in the city of Columbia, and sets it all to the relaxing sound of an acoustic country song. Seriously elegant stuff. Make sure you watch the trailer after the break.
News Brand New BioShock Infinite Trailer To Debut At The VGAs
If you thought you were going to have to wait until 2012 for another look at BioShock Infinite, how's this for a nice surprise? A hyperactive Geoff Keighley has teased -- with a single, secretive screenshot -- that Irrational Games' latest PS3 shooter is set to get a brand new trailer at this weekend's VGAs
The game will join The Last Of Us, Metal...
News The Darkness II Scores Four Player Co-Operative Mode
You absolutely won't need to harbor The Darkness alone
Publisher 2K Games has announced this afternoon that The Darkness II will sport a four-player co-operative game mode known as Vendettas. The moody mode takes place in parallel to the main plot, and has players assuming the role of four different characters, each possessing a unique Darkness...
News Spec Ops: The Line Confirmed For Spring 2012 Release, New Trailer Released
After going missing in action for over eighteen months, 2K's finally re-announced its oft-delayed third-person shooter Spec Ops: The Line
The game's now due out in Spring 2012, and will put you in control of a US Delta Force soldier named Captain Walker. The desert setting's still in place, dropping you amidst a sandstorm in Dubai with the intention...
News Spec Ops: The Line To Get New Trailer Next Week
It's been a while since we saw 2K Games' Spec Ops: The Line
The ambitious desert-based shooter was first shown at the 2009 VGAs and has been missing in action ever since. But it will return next week with a brand new trailer and a raft of impressions to go with it. And just to keep everyone interested, the publisher has released a brand new...
News Ken Levine Is In No Rush To Get BioShock Movie Made
Irrational Games gaffer Ken Levine has said that he is in no rush to get a BioShock movie made
A cinematic adaptation of the first-person adventure game has been on the cards for a while, but like so many other video game movies has struggled to get off the ground. We got very close to having it get made we had a deal in place and a director...
News BioShock Infinite To Boast Greater Range Of Combat
Ken Levine has told players to expect more varied gameplay in BioShock Infinite
While the original game focused very heavily on close-quarters combat, its sequel will have a much greater range of encounters, keeping players on their toes. "One of the first things we did when we started on BioShock Infinite was to draw a graph with...
News Ken Levine's Itching To Show Off BioShock Infinite's PlayStation Move Support
Moving
With the BioShock franchise loosely associated with the XBOX platform — despite all of the games appearing on PS3 — it looks like Sony is going out of its way to make BioShock Infinite feel more at home on its premier platform One way its achieving this is by heavily promoting the game's PlayStation Move implementation. In a new...
News XCOM Delayed Outside Of Q1 2012
Oh XCOM -- how many times have you been delayed? It feels like everytime the 2K Marin developed first-person shooter is within our grasp, overlord Take Two pushes the carrot a little further away
Last night the publisher announced that it is to push the strategy reboot into the publisher's fiscal year 2013. No real reason was offered, but with Max...
News Special PlayStation Move Peripheral In The Works For BioShock Infinite
When Ken Levine announced PlayStation Move support for BioShock Infinite at this year's E3, it seemed more like a statement of intent than anything else
But in a new PlayStation.com post, Sony has hinted that BioShock Infinite's heavily anticipated Move support might be further along than we anticipated. Outlining all the upcoming PlayStation Move...
News Ken Levine Is One Of The Few Not Pining For PlayStation 4
The father of the critically acclaimed BioShock series, Ken Levine, has said that he's not "aching" for the next round of consoles because he believes the current set of consoles have plenty of juice left in them
You look at Arkham City, Uncharted and Gears of War and youre starting to see that these games dont look old to me. They look very...
News Gearbox Honours Fallen Borderlands Fan With Touching Eulogy
Michael John Mamaril was a huge Borderlands fan
Tragically he died of cancer last month at the unfairly premature age of 22. This prompted Michael's friend Carlo — also a big Borderlands fan — to contact Gearbox Software and ask if they could get the game's lovable robot, Claptrap, to read some kind of eulogy. Touchingly Gearbox did, and has...
News The Latest Darkness II Trailer Hones In On All The Gross Stuff
We don't remember The Darkness being so gross
Sure we remember the portions of the campaign when it went really crazy — the Hellish trenches scene continues to haunt us — but geez, this latest trailer for The Darkness II gives Mortal Kombat a run for its money. We suppose it's appropriate for Hallowe'en, but man, if you're eating right now, we...
News The Voices Behind BioShock Infinite Chat About Their Alter Egos
It's not often that we get to post a new video pertaining to BioShock Infinite
While the hotly anticipated first-person adventure game is firmly on everybody's radar, it's always seemed a long way off. But no more — with many of this year's big Holiday releases out of the picture, Infinite is due its time in the spotlight. And that starts today...
News Levine: BioShock Infinite Is 'My Game'
BioShock creator Ken Levine has no doubts about who wears the trousers at Irrational Games
Chatting with Joystiq, the legendary developer revealed that BioShock Infinite is most definitely his game. This is my game, he said, "I love the fact that we sit down and chat with each other but at the end of the day this things got to be my...
News NBA 2K12 DLC Slamdunks Onto PlayStation Network This Holiday
Man, we always wanted to play cel-shaded basket ball
And now we've got the chance. As part of a new multi-faceted DLC pack for NBA 2K12, the publisher's chucking in a cel-shaded game mode set in the heart of New York's Times Square just for the fun of it. The $10 DLC pack will also include 150 of the NBA's all-time greatest players, new mini-games,...
News Levine: BioShock Vita Won't Be A Port
Arguably one of the biggest names in PlayStation Vita's upcoming catalogue, the announcement of BioShock Vita raised many eyebrows when it was revealed at E3 earlier in the year
But while the game itself is hotly anticipated, details are actually extremely scarce. At E3, Irrational Games gaffer Ken Levine said that the game was merely a nugget of an...
News The Darkness 2 Shines In New Brotherhood Trailer
We'll be honest, we've not been that excited by what we've seen of The Darkness 2 so far
Sure the game's got a neat art-style, but it's a universe we hadn't really considered returning to. But the game's latest trailer — narrated by a complete an utter odd-ball — is actually really cool. Not only does it make the fiction seem totally engaging,...
News Gearbox Is Still Putting Out Duke Nukem Forever DLC
We'd be curious to see the numbers for Duke Nukem Forever's multiplayer component
Are any readers still playing it? Well, if you are (why?) Gearbox has got some new DLC for you. The content includes three new multiplayer modes: Freeze Tag, Hail To The King and Hot Potato. It also includes four new maps parodying various popular first-person...
News Pre-Orders For The Darkness II Upgraded To Limited Edition
If you've already registered interest in The Darkness II or are just about to -- then you're in luck
2K Games has announced that it will be upgrading all pre-orders of the game to a Limited Edition version. This includes a Crazy Abdul darkling outfit and two ability upgrades: Gourmet Hearts and Relic Hunter. You'll also net an illustration by Marc...
News The Latest Darkness Trailer Keeps You Up To Date
Did you miss out on the original The Darkness? Shame on you
The game was actually a surprisingly unique first-person shooter. Still, we understand if you're not willing to set aside the time to play through the game in 2011. And 2K gets that too. Hence it's released a little recap video to get you up to date ahead of its upcoming sequel, The...
News BioShock Infinite TGS 2011 Teaser Trailer
In Japanese too!
As fans of the original BioShock, it’s not hard for us to get excited about any new titbit we can rummage up about the upcoming BioShock Infinite. With each new trailer that Irrational Games releases, it seems that the game just continues to look better and better, and this can be said once again from this new trailer from TGS...
News More Than 40 Staffers Dropped From 2K Czech
Two studios under the 2K Czech banner have been hit by a redundancy initiative, according to information obtained by Develop Online
According to the website more than 40 of the developer's staff has been cut from its studio at Brno, with "less than ten" cut from its Prague studio too. Before the redundancies, 2K Czech had a work force of...
News Uh-Oh, There's More Duke Nukem Incoming
Gearbox Software is in the initial stages of planning a new Duke Nukem title, CEO Randy Pitchford has announced
Pitchford told an audience at PAX — watched by Kotaku — that the studio picked up the Duke Nukem franchise with the intention of making more titles in the series. "And then soon I know that you guys figured out that, when...
News Borderlands 2's Split-Screen Will Allow You To Take A Friend Online
No-one is going to disagree that Borderlands 2 is all about multiplayer, not least developers Gearbox Software
Speaking to Joystiq behind closed doors, Gearbox's Steve Gibson revealed that those playing Borderlands 2's couch co-op mode will be able to take the action online with two other players. There is one stipulation however, according to...
GamesCom 2011 Elizabeth Has A Bit Of A Cry In New BioShock: Infinite Screenshots
Poor Elizabeth
She was thrilled with all the awards BioShock: Infinite won at E3 earlier in the year, but someone at GamesCom had to be a complete meanie didn't they? Horrible Europeans, why did you have to tell her that BioShock: Infinite is still a year away from release? We think we're going to have a little cry too.
GamesCom 2011 Borderlands 2 Teases In New Trailer
Here's your first glimpse of Borderlands 2 ahead of the media blow-out we're expecting later in the week
The trailer focuses on the game's new dual-wielding hero as he shoots the brains out of a variety of fresh foes. The art-style is still great. Expect lots more on Gearbox's RPG-shooter during the course of the week.
News 2K Games To Stream Borderlands 2 Premiere Online
It sounds like GamesCom's going to be livestreams galore -- 2K Games will be joining Sony next week in streaming its GamesCom presentation live on the Internet
2K's show is expected to go heavy on Borderlands 2 content, with many of us given a first taste of Gearbox's RPG-come-shooter at next week's show. The livestream's set to hit the airwaves on...
News Ken Levine Chats BioShock: Infinite On PlayStation 3
It's funny to think that the original BioShock was an afterthought on the PlayStation 3
Released hastily a year after its XBOX 360 counterpart, BioShock as a franchise was closely aligned with Microsoft's platform back in the early days of this generation. But now you can't move without seeing BioShock: Infinite on the front-cover of PlayStation...
News GameInformer Busts Out A Bunch Of New Borderlands 2 Details
Super-addictive four-player co-op is back in Borderlands 2, says GameInformer magazine
But according to the publication, virtually every other element of the RPG-come-shooter has been revved up. More interactive environments, friendly NPCs that actually say more than one word, and a new elemental currency are all in. Bonza. All four original...
News Rejoice: 2K Games Makes Borderlands 2 Official
Forget those rumours from yesterday, 2K Games has officially confirmed Borderlands 2 this afternoon
The game's due for release somewhere between April 2012 and March 2013. 2K's keeping a nice wide window open for the time being. The game's featured on the September cover of US games magazine GameInformer, and will be on-hand at this month's...
Rumour Borderlands 2 Announcement On The Horizon
Eurogamer's reporting that Borderlands 2 is in development at Gearbox and is due to be announced by 2K Games soon -- presumably at Gamescom
According to Eurogamer's source, the game will launch on PlayStation 3 next year. It's not the first we've heard of Borderlands 2 — the game has been rumoured for months, showing up on developer CVs and in...
News The Darkness II Gets Delayed Out Of October, Into February
It's that time of the year again
The time of the year where publishers of not-quite-blockbuster-games delay their big fall releases because of the looming threat of Call Of Duty and Uncharted and Batman and Battlefield. 2K Games' The Darkness II is the first notable title to be pushed out of its release window, presumably for marketing reasons. The...
News Levine: BioShock Vita Will Be 'Strange And Surprising To People'
Irrational Games boss Ken Levine doesn't do things by half, so it's not necessarily surprising to hear the video games luminary tease his upcoming PlayStation Vita project as being "strange"
In an interview with IGN, the legend reiterated that the game would be something new, and not simply a port of a previous BioShock title. Thats a new game...
News Watch BioShock Infinite's E3 Demo In Its Entirety
BioShock Infinite won a whole slew of awards at E3 last month
But the game's demonstration was held behind closed doors. Now GTTV's got the game's full 14-minute blowout on display. We could sit here typing hyperbole, but we think it's best that you hit the jump and enjoy the footage for yourself. This is staggering.
News This Is What BioShock Infinite's Protagonist Looks Like
The face of BioShock Infinite's protagonist, Booker DeWitt, has been revealed on the cover of EGM magazine
The character looks rugged and dishevelled in a classy sort of way, sporting an expensive jacket and pin-stripe trouser. One thing we liked about the original BioShock was the mystique surrounding the protagonist, so we're not sure how we feel...
News Tear Deeper Into Columbia in BioShock Infinite
Tearing the worlds apart
Maybe it was the way that Rapture gripped us from beginning to end in the original BioShock, or maybe it was the way the game created such a surreal alternate lifestyle in the underwater city that it almost seemed like it could actually be lying in wait somewhere in the ocean depths. Today we grasp at every morsel of...
News BioShock Infinite Looks Crazy Amazing
Irrational's released a new developer diary for BioShock Infinite
No doubt if you've been reading previews for the game, or listening to podcasts, you'll have heard about this section from the game's E3 demo where Elizabeth — your side-kick throughout the game — opens up a portal (or tear) into a 1980s sidewalk while trying to save a horse. The...
News UK Sales Charts: Always Bet On Duke, Baby
Despite a number of seriously scathing reviews over the weekend, Duke Nukem Forever has knocked L
A. Noire</a> off its perch at the top of the UK sales charts, scoring a number one finish for the long-in-development FPS. L.A. Noire finished up in second, while Sucker Punch's new superhero escapade finished up just behind Zumba Fitness in...
News Ken Levine Explains BioShock Infinite's Skylines
BioShock Infinite was undoubtedly one of the stars of E3 2011
Popping up at Sony's press conference, Ken Levine explained how Irrational Games was planning to bring PlayStation Move to to the game, as well as develop a brand new entry in the series for the PlayStation Vita. In this developer diary, Ken Levine explains Columbia's skylines — unusual...
News Stop The Clocks: Duke Nukem Forever Is Out Now In The UK
At last
It's actually real: Duke Nukem Forever is available on British store-shelves nationwide. The release puts an end to a whopping 15 years wait for the game. We sincerely hope Duke's stocked up on plenty of gum during his hiatus. June 10 in the UK will forever be celebrated as the day that the legendary Duke Nukem Forever went from video game...
E3 2011 Ken Levine Discusses PlayStation Move In Bioshock Infinite
"We don't know how we're going to use PlayStation Move yet," was the message of Irrational Games' Ken Levine during Sony's press conference
It's a sentiment echoed in the developer's interview with IGN. I tried to be as honest as I could up there. I dont exactly know what were doing yet. Ive worked with known film directors who basically...
News Bioshock Infinite Includes PlayStation Move Support
Ready to Rapture?
Ken Levine is the mastermind behind the world heralded by gamers across the world known simply as ‘Rapture’ in the BioShock series. Stepping into the dark undersea city of Rapture for the first time was truly a moment that we’ll never forget; inhabitant’s that utilise strange powers, Big Daddies and Little Sisters,...
Ken Levine took to the stage of Sony's E3 press conference to announce that Bioshock Infinite will support PlayStation Move on the PlayStation 3
Apparently the team is still working on the implementation, but it will be there at launch. Also confirmed during a bumper series of Bioshock announcements was news that all PS3 copies of Bioshock Infinite...
News XCOM Announced For PlayStation 3, Releasing March 2012
2K Games has confirmed that its upcoming first-person shooter XCOM will release on March 9th 2012 in the UK
The game will release March 6th in North America. The game is no longer a PC and XBOX 360 exclusive, with 2K confirming a PS3 version of the game. XCOM is a gripping tactical action experience set in mid-century America, where the player...
E3 2011 The Darkness II's New Visual Style Looks Great
When we first heard The Darkness was getting a sequel, we were a bit like, "Yeah whatever?" We liked the original game a fair amount, but never considered it a classic like many others do
That said, we were wrong to be so dismissive of The Darkness II. This new trailer for the sequel looks pretty impressive. We adore the new graphic novel visual...
News Hell Freezes Over: Duke Nukem Forever Gets Launch Trailer
There are no words: Duke Nukem Forever releases in the UK next week
This launch trailer proves it. There are tits, one-liners, guns and swearing; what more could you ask for? Repeat: Duke Nukem Forever releases in the UK next week.
