Aliens: Colonial Marines release date pushed back to February 12
Colonial Marines was due to hatch in Autumn this year, but the latest release date suggests it needs to gestate for a little longer. February 12 2013 is the new date, as revealed by this tense new...
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Hell Yeah! preview
The Prince of Hell isn’t very happy. He’s a skeletal bunny, for starters, which is hardly anybody’s idea of a good time, and he’s also – well – completely powerless. On a mission of vengeance after...
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Aliens: Colonial Marines preview – Xeno AI, retro futurism, and all those...
The section of Colinial Marines that’s currently doing the rounds is short but very busy: you go on board the Sulaco, you wander about in the dark for a bit, you’re teased by the enemy, and then they...
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SEGA closes offices in France, Germany, Spain, Australia and Benelux. London...
SEGA have just announced that many of their European offices are about to close. New distribution partners have been announced across France, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and...
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Football Manager developer speaks out on Eidos split
It’s one of the great breakups in gaming. Up there with John Romero leaving id Software, or West and Zampella walking out on Activision. The story of how the developers behind Championship Manager,...
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Total War Rome 2 preview: every detail about the new engine, naval combat,...
The original Rome is one of the most enduringly popular games in the Total War series. It did away with sprites, rendering warfare in full 3D. It added depth and flexibility to the campaign game,...
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Total War Rome 2 video interviews: Creative Assembly on battles and the...
While seeing Rome 2 for the first time at Creative Assembly, I spoke to lead designer James Russell and lead battle designer Jamie Ferguson about the new direction that Total War is taking, their...
View ArticleTotal War: Rome 2 announcement trailer features total betrayal, total murder
I don’t know if you noticed, but yesterday Total War: Rome 2 was announced, and we all got rather excited. Today we’ve got an announcement trailer for you. It’s live action (unless Rome’s engine is...
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Total War: Shogun 2 patch tackles multiplayer desync bugs, improves lighting
For many, “Fixes to prevent desynchronisation (desync) in multiplayer campaign modes” will be the highlight of the latest round of updates to Total War: Shogun 2. Syncing up a multiplayer campaign...
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Binary Domain review
You are Dan, walking jawline, international supersoldier. One of several tasked with infiltrating a futuristic Tokyo. ‘Infiltration’ in this case means ten hours of noisy third-person gun battles with...
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Aliens: Colonial Marines’ Escape multiplayer mode will make you flee for your...
The multiplayer portion of Gearbox’s Aliens: Colonial Marines seeks to offer a good time for both the Marines, who should learn to avoid dank, dimly lit facilities, and the Aliens, who very much enjoy...
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Aliens: Colonial Marines multiplayer: xenomorphs vs humans “not a fair set-up”
This preview originally appeared in issue 242 of PC Gamer UK. Videogame designers have spent a lifetime ripping off Aliens, but that doesn’t mean that making a game using the original creature is...
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Viking: Battle for Asgard coming to Steam next week
Creative Assembly are better known for the grand strategy of their transcontinental conquest series Total War, but they have made a few tentative sorties into action-game territory in the past. One...
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Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit review
Remember when platformers weren’t all trying to be arty metaphors for life, loss and all that other fancy crap? If you find a metaphor in Hell Yeah’s relentless assault on your eyes and sanity, it’s...
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Total War: Shogun 2 Otomo Clan DLC brings guns to swordfights
When the Portuguese first landed upon Japan’s shores in 1543, they stroked their handlebar mustaches and said, “You know, that whole honorable swordsman thing is working well for you, but what you...
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Aliens: Colonial Marines survivor multiplayer trailer goes badly for all...
The latest Aliens: Colonial Marines trailer shows of Survivor mode, in which playable Xenomorphs face off against a team of human-controlled Marine meatbags. The Marines must stay alive long enough to...
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Total War: Rome II reveals first playable faction. But who could it be?
Creative Assembly are using the Total War Wiki to roll out info on the factions that will appear in the upcoming Total War: Rome II. See if you can guess who they’ve unveiled as Rome II’s first...
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Total Warhammer: Creative Assembly partner with Games Workshop to create...
Update: THQ have confirmed to Eurogamer that the Warhammer 40K licence is staying with them. Basically, then, this is 100% brilliant news all round. Sega have just announced that Creative Assembly,...
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Viking: Battle for Asgard review
After four years aboard a longship from console land, Creative Assembly’s hack and slasher (and chopper and slicer) about Norse mythology and decapitation has finally landed on the PC’s shores. In...
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Total War: Rome 2 reveals Carthaginian faction
Creative Assembly continue to slowly reveal info on Total War: Rome 2. Following last week’s shock announcement that the game will feature Rome as a playable faction, today they announce Carthage will...
View ArticleThe Cave character trailer introduces the Adventurer, Knight, other spelunkers
Double Fine’s modern re-imagining of classic adventure gaming logically involves a talking cave, but we’re perfectly fine with a spot of surrealism from the mind who brought us the Monkey Island...
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Total War: Rome 2 developer diaries show Carthage crumble
Creative Assembly have released two developer diaries, detailing their recreation of the siege at Carthage for Total War: Rome 2. The videos show more of the absolutely gorgeous looking battle engine...
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Total War: Rome 2 video interview: inside Creative Assembly’s motion capture...
I visited Creative Assembly late last year for a look around their brand new motion capture studio. While I was there I spoke to CA mocap manager Pete Clapperton about what it took for the Total War...
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Aliens: Colonial Marines system requirements are eating your face
If it feels like Aliens: Colonial Marines has been in production for yeaaaars, that’s because it has. Remember when it was announced as a squad shooter in which you could direct AI teammates a la Star...
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The Cave release date and price announced, will support Mac and Linux
Sega have announced that the Double Fine developed, Ron Gilbert headed 2D adventure platformer The Cave will be arriving on PC on January 23rd. The price has been confirmed as £9.99/$14.99/€12.99 for...
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TF2′s Pyro, Spy and Heavy join Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
We don’t get too many kart racers on PC, and for that I’m entirely thankful. However, the word on the streets of Green Hill Zone is that Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is a good ‘un – and...
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Total War: Shogun 2 releases Gold Edition in March
Total War: Shogun 2′s add-on release schedule has shown a remarkable dedication to historical accuracy. First there was the Rise of the Samurai, then, inevitably, the Fall of the Samurai. Now comes...
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Aliens: Colonial Marines DLC plans include $30 Season Pass
After many years growing in its slimy cocoon, Aliens: Colonial Marines will finally come out on February 12. Though Gearbox hasn’t talked about post-launch DLC plans, a ping on Polygon‘s motion...
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Aliens: Colonial Marines review
Late in Colonial Marines’ campaign you find yourself fighting through the xenomorph-haunted hallways of Hadley’s Hope accompanied by a smartgun-toting jarhead called O’Neal. He’s the model of a...
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Aliens: Colonial Marines patch doctors doorways, acid spit
The word “door” appears no less than five times in the first patch for Aliens: Colonial Marines. It’s a hefty day-one update for Gearbox’s FPS, tweaking issues encountered in the campaign, co-op, and...
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Aliens: Colonial Marines mods duct-tape on DirectX 10 features, improved...
Well, that was fast. Only a little over 24 hours have passed since Aliens: Colonial Marines emerged from its dark alcove, but graphics mods are already becoming available. Two such offerings are the...
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Total War: Rome 2′s latest faction cries wolf
Creative Assembly continue to announce Rome 2′s playable factions. Today’s reveal heralds the Suebi as the sixth of the game’s eight factions, meaning we’re only a few weeks away from the full roster....
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Natural Selection 2 dev “filled with sadness” over Aliens: Colonial Marines
Unknown World’s Natural Selection 2 has kept its horned head low throughout Aliens: Colonial Marines’ pasting from critics, but in a forum post, Unknown’s PR head Hugh Jeremy now says the NS2 team...
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Total War: Rome II trailer features angry emperors, angry Germans, angry dogs
Have you heard this one before? A Roman general and his German ally go for a walk in the woods. Three legions of Roman soldiers end up dead. It’s not a very good joke – not if you’re Augustus, anyway....
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Total War: Rome II preview – what’s new in Creative Assembly’s latest
The doors of Creative Assembly’s Total War development fortress creaked open a little wider today with the release of a new trailer for Rome II’s Battle of the Teutoburg Forest scenario. I saw this...
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Company of Heroes 2 release date shifted to June, closed beta incoming
Company of Heroes 2 was due to come out around about now, but then THQ folded and developers, Relic, were auctioned off to Sega. This has pushed back the World War 2 RTS by a few months. It’ll now...
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Rome 2′s penultimate playable faction rides armored horses across the desert
I kind of tuned out of Rome 2′s faction announcements after personal favorites, the Arverni and the Suebi, were announced, but if you’ve been holding out for some Eastern flavor, today is your day....
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Total War: Rome 2 preview – ambush and betrayal in the ancient world RTS
In the early autumn of 9 CE a Roman general named Publius Quinctilius Varus led an expedition deep into the German interior. He was investigating reports of unrest among the local tribes, and marched...
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Creative Assembly immortalise dying Total War fan by putting his likeness...
Last year, 24-year-old Total War fan James visited Creative Assembly’s studio in the UK – a trip arranged by the Willow Foundation, whose Special Day initiative gives people with terminal illness the...
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Giant Aliens: Colonial Marines patch fixes many things, neglects to nuke game...
How do you solve a problem like Maria Aliens Colonial Marines? You should probably start by obliterating the game code from the face of the Earth – well, it is the only way to be sure. Gearbox haven’t...
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Relic to continue supporting Company of Heroes’ online, servers moving to...
After the controlled implosion of THQ, you may have been wondering what would happen to the original Company of Heroes, now that Relic and COH2 have been safely gobbled up by Sega, and its chilli-dog...
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Rome II’s final faction flaunts fearsome phalanx formation
To the surprise of few, the last playable faction rounding out Total War: Rome 2′s launch line-up is the Egyptians. Granted, these may not be precisely the Egyptians you’re familiar with. During this...
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Company of Heroes 2 closed beta starts next week
If a beta test is a game’s boot camp, then you’re about to get the chance to become Company of Heroes 2′s drill instructor – gurning your way through spittle-flecked insults about bugs and lag in the...
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GDC 2013: Creative Assembly announces the all-multiplayer Total War Arena
During a talk given GDC today Creative Assembly revealed a new direction for its Total War series: Total War Arena, a multiplayer and free-to-play MOBA with RTS elements. In this slide from the...
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Aliens: Colonial Marines trailers get disclaimer after objections they don’t...
In response to an investigation from the UK’s Advertising Standards Agency, Sega Europe have acknowledged a consumer complaint that the promotional trailers for Aliens: Colonial Marines didn’t match...
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Company of Heroes 2 announces pre-order bonuses, including post-launch...
Sega have announced the pre-order bonuses available for their new acquisition, Company of Heroes 2. They include an extra “post-launch” mini-campaign, titled Theatre of War. While there’s no details...
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Total War: Rome II takes screenshots to the extreme with the Battle of...
Creative Assembly are giving us the biggest look at Total War: Rome II yet, thanks to this giant panoramic shot of the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. This is their second panoramic vista for the game,...
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Company of Heroes 2 trading beta keys for Facebook Likes
Do you want to play Company of Heroes 2? Can you live with yourself for pre-emptively “Liking” something on Facebook before you’ve had a chance to try it? If your answer to both of those questions is...
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Company of Heroes 2 multiplayer beta impressions – of mortars and men
There’s something especially needling about seeing your troops obliterated by a shell of unknown origin in an RTS. It feels like a petulant deity has unfairly singled them out for sudden, unavoidable...
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