We've all made mistakes and most of the time, we feel better about owning up to them. Valve recently had a little slip up when their anti-cheat software automagically banned 12,000 Modern Warfare 2 players from the PC version of the game. Turns out though, they weren't cheating at all.
"I hope that's the face. Please be the face"
It’s about time Earthworm Jim HD makes its way over to the Playstation Network. In his high-def form, Earthworm Jim has been on the Xbox LIVE Arcade for, well, quite some time. European PSN users can get their Jim on at any time now, and within the week U.S. PSN will also have their hands on that super suit, with some pretty interesting co-op I might add.
The anticipation leading up to Monday Night Combat’s August 11th release is getting to be too much. Another character has been revealed after the probably unstable Sniper's unmasking, and she’s likely to put the rest of them to sleep. She’s silent, deadly, quick, and a surgeon with her work - the Assassin joins the ranks of quirky characters in the Monday Night Combat lineup. Better get to her before she gets to you or it's gonna be messy.
Some gamers like it hot, and StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty delivers on that request. Well, okay, maybe you don’t actually want your computer to overheat, and possibly melt while you’re watching those interactive menus with the guys standing around, and the juke box, and - whatever else is in the between-missions screen in the campaign.
Bungie has just released a brand new trailer for Halo Reach to amp you up even further, as if you need further fuel. As the prequel to the Halo trilogy, Reach tells the story of humanities efforts to save the planet Reach from a Covenant invasion force. The trailer, called The Battle Begins, gives you a glimpse as to just what our group of Spartans are up against.
That tiny screen above is what you'll be looking at if you decide to pick up Call of Duty: Black Ops for the Nintendo DS. Of course, if you have the DSi XL it'll be much bigger. That being said, Activision has announced a DS port of Black Ops which includes missions inspired by its big brother on the console. You'll even be able to take control of vehicles like jets and helicopters.
If Tom Clancy's games represented an army we would soon be calling him Supreme Overlord Tom Clancy as there are plenty of them. Tremble in fear as the next two of his branded minions have been given an official European release date from Ubisoft. The 4 player co-op flight game H.A.W.X. 2 will be winging its way onto shop shelves come September 3rd. According to Amazon.com the US release date is set for September 7th. Of note, right now all Amazon listings have the game at an MSRP of $49.99 instead of the usual $59.99. A release date for R.U.S.E was also announced, this strategy game will be released a week later on September 10th (Sept 7th US).
Let's face it, a lot has happened between the years of great Resident Evil titles. From the change of scenery from the Mansion and Racoon City to the far reaches of Spain and Africa, to the inclusion of co-op in on rails shooter The Umbrella Chronicles and Resident Evil 5. It now looks like Capcom wants to speed up the growth a bit by releasing a new Resident Evil game every 2 years or so, instead of approximately every 4 years.
The Gears of War series has a long tradition now of amazing trailers set to some emotional music. It all started with the infamous Mad World trailer for Gears 1 followed by the How it Ends trailer with Gears 2. Gears 3 so far has had the Ashes to Ashes trailer, again, another emotional and moving look at the game. All of these trailers had Epic Games at the helm to guide their creation using official assets they had on hand, and while the latest trailer may look and sound the part it's actually a fan made tribute using the Unreal Development Kit.
What can be better than a free game? How about a free co-op game from Valve, one of the premier PC developers and publishers of today. Wait, it gets better. There's also full mod support built right in. What is this mythical creation? It's Alien Swarm, and it's our review.
Twelve years ago a little game called StarCraft was released on the PC. A sequel in some regards to another franchise named WarCraft, StarCraft forever changed the face of real time strategy gaming. Now over a decade later the sequel has finally arrived.
