Black Ops II And Gratuitous Space Battles Can Be Played For Free This Weekend

So gratuitous…Maybe you’d like to play some games this weekend? Maybe you’d like them to be completely free? Maybe you’d also like them to be games you don’t own; games that will stop letting you play them on Sunday unless you pay a reduced price to secure their continued use? That’s a bizarre set of...

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Prison Architect’s Alpha7 Update Bangs Up The Backers

The latest Prison Architect update celebrates the incarceration management sim’srecent milestonesby inserting the faces, names and bios of all backers who’ve pledged the required amounts. Players who’ve paid at least $50 can find themselves in the new Name in the Game option, and request to have themselves...

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What We Want To See From Avalanche’s Rumoured Mad Max Game

Article by Nathan DitumLast year filming finally wrapped on a fourth Mad Max movie, subtitled Fury Road, after decades of stop-start development. We've known for some time that a tie-in game was also in the making, with God Of War 2 director Cory Barlog mentioning the project as early as 2008.Since...

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Dreamfall Chapters Gameplay Trailer Travels To The Neon-lit Streets Of Cyberpunk Europolis

Red Thread’s Dreamfall ChaptersKickstarter campaignhas done an impressive job stirring up anticipation for the next tale in The Longest Journey’s saga, passing the $1 million mark to achieve promised stretch goals for added lore, Mac and Linux support, andsolemn-looking monkeys. With more support needed...

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Will Wright And Ocean Quigley Talk About SimCity’s “guilt-driven Experience”

The newest video forSimCityfeatures franchise creator Will Wright sitting down with Designer Ocean Quigley to discuss how citizens react to player’s benevolent and malicious actions. Quigley tells the sim legend that he wants the player’s emotional investment with a populace to stay high throughout...

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The Curious Case Of StarCraft’s Harvester Pathfinding Hack

Even the most mundane game mechanics sometimes boast extraordinary origins. In the StarCraft series, resource collectors ignore collisions whenever traveling to or returning with minerals. It’s a type of unit behavior universally experienced by every commander, but its beginnings tell a far more interesting...

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The Night Of The Rabbit, A New Adventure Game From Daedalic, Coming May 29

Earlier this week, German studio Daedalic Entertainment announced thatThe Night of the Rabbit(formerly known as“The Rabbit’s Apprentice”) will release internationally on May 29, and called the game its“biggest adventure game so far.”The puzzle-adventure stars a 12-year-old boy who dreams of being a...

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Tomb Raider Trailer Shows Combat Moves, Resulting Blood-’splosions

The spry Lara Croft tumbles onto PCs on March 5, but Square Enix is taking a machete to the wait with another look at Tomb Raider’s combat, which apparently involves the good Ms. Croft’s natural skill at wanton slaughter. Stealth takedowns, melee slug-outs, and shooting sprees all show up, though the...

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What To Watch: The Week In ESports (February 22-28, 2013)

This week in eSports: EVE Online gets its first ongoing, competitive league. The IPL could be changing hands. And only the final four remain in the GSL Code S. Get ready to face-check your weekly helping of competitive gaming news. gl hf!EVE launching Syndicate Competitive LeagueOrganized, competitive...

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Saturday Crapshoot: Castle Knatterfels: Curse Of The Zombie Krauts

Every week,Richard Cobbettrolls the dice to bring you an obscure slice of gaming history, from lost gems to weapons grade atrocities. This week, Nazi zombies once again run amok in a spooky German castle full of mad necroscience… but it sure as hell‘aint Wolfenstein this time around.Castle Knatterfels–...

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Let’s Reboot… Unreal

Unreal's most enduring legacy has been its engine tech. It's a shame. Not because Epic's awesomely powerful development toolkit is undeserving of its industry-dominating status, but because it now overshadows one of the most spectacular and evocative singleplayer experiences in gaming history. Unreal...

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Sword Of The Stars Spin-off The Pit Released On GamersGate

We didn’t think much of Sword of the Stars 2 the first orsecond time around, but perhaps its roguelikey spin-off The Pit will fare better. The dungeon-crawling sci-fi RPG has just been released exclusivelyon GamersGate– presumably it will hit other online stores later– andthis demoshould give you some...

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Avadon 2: The Corruption Announced, Get Your Old-school Role-playing Here

I enjoyed the old-fashioned isometric RPG Avadon, despite having a few raging issues with the interface, so the news that it’s getting a sequel makes my mouth do that upside-down-frown thing. If it’s anything like previous Spiderweb Software titles,Avadon 2: The Corruptionis unlikely to be too different,...

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Skyrim Dragonborn Diary: The Leader’s Guide To Following Your Followers

I love my Skyrim wife, Mjoll the Lioness. She carries my spare gear with no complaint, she never runs out of arrows, and she doesn’t mind accompanying me when Imurder a bunch of farmers because I can’t find a common axe. However, I’ve just informed her I don’t want her following me any longer. I’ve...

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Sim-plicity: I Am Captain Of A Floating Hotel

Having retired from world-saving heroics,Christopher Livingstonis living the simple life in video games by playing a series of down-to-earth simulations. This week he's captain of a cruise ship the size of a skyscraper, though the sky is just about the only thing won’t get scraped.There were some astounding...

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