Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance introduces Raiden as the central character; a child soldier transformed into a cyborg ninja. If you’re not familiar with Revengeance, it follows Raiden from the Metal Gear Solid series, as he copes with being turned into one of the world’s finest killing machines
Legends will feature a new storyline with missions based on five classic James Bond films – Moonraker and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service have also been unveiled, as well as one inspired by upcoming movie Skyfall, which will be available post-release DLC. Read the rest of this entry »
Here we go! After years of speculation, Valve have finally taken the wraps off a recently-hinted new mode and third faction for their game of ratatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatatboomdead.
‘One brick to rule them all!’……The LEGO videogames have been bringing two-person co-op fun to franchises such as Star Wars, Batman, and Harry Potter. The Lord of the Rings will be the next entry in this successful series when it appears later this year.
I approach engine tech demos with caution, as if they were primed to explode, or at least deceive me with their promises and lies. They’re not necessarily representative of anything that will actually be seen in a game, unless you’re one of those people who reckons iD games are tech demos?
Gearbox have released another trailer for the forthcoming Borderlands 2. It might not have the best graphics on the planet but if you’ve played the first one you’ll know just how addictive collecting and upgrading your arsenal can be…
So sports games have had ragdoll physics for a while now but what does it really add to the games? The short answer is “Hilarity”. When it all goes a bit wrong and things don’t go as they should it actually makes the game a whole lot better. Here’s some highlights of the engine glitches and rigging issues. Enjoy!
The continued support and updating for EverQuest II never fails to surprise me. The MMO is now eight years old, but still played and receiving regular updates and content, and now some tech that I’ve not seen used elsewhere. They’re awkwardly calling it SOEmote, a thing where a webcam pointed at your face will translate your expressions onto your in-game character. You can see it in action below.
A Warframe could be anything from the estranged twin cousin of Firefall’s “battleframes” to a homicidal portrait well-versed in the art of large-scale military combat, but you know what? The F2P videogame called Warframe doesn’t look half-bad. Digital Extremes has finally seen fit to show off some real (read: not paused in a state of dramatic tension) gameplay, and there’s definite potential here. I mean, yeah, it looks like Mass Effect 3 meets Metal Gear Solid’s Gray Fox, but wait, let me re-read that thing I just wrote. Oh my.
Watch some of the fiendish ways you can defeat your enemies that stand against you in this trailer for Dishonored – The first game from Arkane since it was acquired by Bethesda, and the game is being developed with the help of the lead designers of Deus Ex and Arx Fatalis.