Snail Games invites you to join the MMORPG Black Gold Online . Steampunk and fantasy are in a race to capture resources, and you need to duke it out in fast-paced action combat and shred each other to pieces with customized mechs or muscled dragon mounts. Black Gold Online's closed beta just launched this week and GameSpot is giving away a ton of codes. There are no region restrictions for these codes,...
Developer Bohemia Interactive celebrates its 15-year anniversary this month, having been founded in May 1999. To celebrate, it's discounting the prices of many of its games on Steam, giving away the first game it developed, and allowing gamers to play one of its most recent titles for free for the next few days. From now until May 18, Steam users can download and play Arma 3 for free. The open-world...
Watch Dogs’ console resolution info lands, Far Cry 4 is announced, the Xbox One loses the Kinect, and Sony’s E3 press conference is detailed!...
We'd heard rumors before that Microsoft was working on an anniversary Edition of Halo 2, but it looks like the scope of Master Chief's revival is going to be quite a bit larger on Xbox One. Sources report that HD versions of Halo 1 through Halo 4 are coming to Microsoft's latest console with a Master Chief Edition. The collection is coming to "refresh audiences' memories" prior to the release of Halo...
"Nice to meet you. Now let's kill each other!" It's a rather unsettling way to greet someone, but in essence, that's exactly how Blade Symphony's frenzied duels to the death begin. This is murder of the most courteous sort. Bowing is optional, though the vast majority of opponents you cross swords with afford you this sign of respect before they try to slice you in twain in this multiplayer dueling...
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a decade after its console debut in North America, Nintendo dubbed 1994 the Year of the Cartridge. While there were many memorable cartridge-based hits that year, 1994 was also the stage for other trends. Numerous now-classic PC games made their debut, and Sega unleashed a wave of new hardware, which, in hindsight, may have put the company at significant...
The first YouTube-hosted videogame demo is relatively lackluster, but it could be huge for the future of how we preview games. ...
Check out the Aston Martin Vanquish featured in Driveclub....
A total of 10 studios are working on Assassin's Creed Unity , Ubisoft announced today in a slide ( pg. 19 in this document ) from its earnings report for the fiscal year ended March 31. By comparison, last year's Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag was developed by a total of seven different studios . Studios working on Assassin's Creed Unity include Ubisoft teams in Montreal, Toronto, Singapore, Quebec,...
Cam consults genuine science experts, including Elite: Dangerous creator David Braben, to find out how to travel at near light speed without, you know, dying....
Ubisoft's upcoming racing game The Crew has been designed to be the " World of Warcraft of driving games," the publisher said today as part of its latest earnings report. What exactly does that mean? Ubisoft didn't offer much in the way of detail, but the company has previously spoken of the game as one that blends the MMO and racing genres. Like Blizzard Entertainment's genre-defining World of Warcraft,...
Mario Kart 8 doesn't arrive until May 30 , but the reviews hit today. How did the latest entry in Nintendo's beloved kart racing series fare with critics? We've rounded up a sampling of reviews from GameSpot and other sources to give you an idea about what to expect. The game is currently sitting pretty with an 89 on GameSpot sister site Metacritic. Shacknews -- 8/10 "Although Mario Kart is on its...
Among the aspects of Commander Shepard that players can customize in the Mass Effect games is his or her first name. BioWare has released a list of the most popular male and female names in Mass Effect 3 , with Sarah and Jack coming out on top for customized names. The default names assigned to Shepard--Jane and John, depending on your gender choice--were "by far" the most common, according to a BioWare...
Danny tries his first Tex Murphy adventure game with the aid of Benito a veteran in the genre....
Your goal in Nutjitsu is nuts. More specifically, it's acorns. Because you are a squirrel, and that's what you crave. So you run around, like Pac-Man avoiding ghosts, and you steal as many mystical acorns as you can from the foxes that guard them. Sometimes you might also pick up scrolls, but mostly your interests aren't so diverse, and mostly the game isn't, either. Stages are composed of a single...
Before it's released as a standalone game later this summer, Street Fighter fans will be able to upgrade their existing games to the latest version of Street Fighter IV , Ultra Street Fighter IV , at a discount in June. Xbox 360 owners patient enough to wait for mid-June, however, won't need to already own any of the old games to be entitled to the discount. The Ultra Street Fighter IV digital upgrade...
By March 2015, combined PlayStation 4 and Xbox One sales will reach 30 million units, according to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. He gave the figure today during a post-earnings financial call. Right now, the combined install base of the PS4 and Xbox One is somewhere around 10 million units. Sony has sold 7 million PS4s , while Microsoft officially sold 3 million Xbox Ones by the end of 2013 . Microsoft...
Minecraft on Xbox One New screenshots of the next-gen versions of Minecraft show that the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions look incredibly similar, although both sport improved draw distances over their PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 counterparts. 4J Studios, the developer responsible for the consoles versions of Minecraft, tweeted out a series of screenshots today, primarily as a means for demonstrating...
Microsoft announced today that the Xbox One sold 115,000 units during April 2014 in the United States. That's 76 percent better than the Xbox 360 when compared to its first six months on the market. Separately, the NPD Group released its report today for April 2014, showing that the PlayStation 4 outsold the Xbox One during the month . Sony has not disclosed specific monthly sales figures for its...
The first Far Cry 4 details and release date are revealed, The Division gets pushed back to 2015, and will Destiny or Watch Dogs be the best new IP?...