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Prepare To Watch this New Dark Souls Trailer

So Dark Souls on PC probably isn’t going to be the greatest port of all time. But your PC can run it! That’s a good thing. Just tell that to yourself over and over as you watch the PC port’s latest trailer.

Finally, Assassin’s Creed III’s Star Tries to Kill an American

Connor, the hero of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed III, is supposedly non-partisan. Sure, he’ll be swinging his tomahawk right through the middle of the American War of Independence, but like other games in the series, there’s the expectation that he’s out to get Templars, not the British, or Hanoverians, or the Native Americans. So it’s…

With Its Sweeping Nautical Battles, Assassin’s Creed III Finally Goes Full Pirate

I’ve been waiting for the Assassin’s Creed series to go full-pirate for a little while now. Earlier games in the series have allowed the player to climb about the riggings of ships, swash their buckles across the decks of schooners, and generally freely engage in all the kinds of things that pirates do. But the…

Metal Gear Rising’s GamesCom Trailer Slashes Up The Place

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, a Kojima Productions and Platium Games joint, is out in February 2013. It might not be exactly the kind of Metal Gear game you’re after, but it might be exactly the kind of Metal Gear trailer you’re after.

This Game Might Not Let You Move Heaven, But It Sure Does Let You Move The Earth

Time to check in on Son of Nor, an intriguing little PC game that’s basically doing what Avatar (the cartoon) did only without the license. Seems the team have made quite a bit of progress since we last saw the game While some things are still a little rough, like player animations, the important thing…

If Scott Pilgrim Ever Met Contra, Or Metal Slug…

We last checked in on Mercenary Kings in June. It looked good then. With new screens and art (like the Bryan O’Malley-penned piece above), it’s looking even better now. Being worked on by a bunch of people responsible for the Scott Pilgrim game (and the delightful Wizorb), the developers for this PC-only side-scroller are giving…

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time has been delayed until February 2013 in North America and March 2013 in Europe.

This is an Impressive, $400 Tribute to The Original Master Chief

Sideshow will soon be releasing this enormous piece based not only on Halo’s Master Chief, but on what looks like his original design from the very first Halo, all the way back in 2001. While it’s called a “figure”, poseability seems to be severely limited, but at $400 and weighing a ton, it’s not like…

Crysis 3 is Copying Predator, in the Best Way Possible

Well, not the best way possible. I don’t see any Jesse Ventura skins in this trailer. But it shows the second-best thing about the original Predator: the tension and excitement that results from a team of dudes trying to escape a jungle while an invisible killer stalks and murders them. This is Crysis 3’s “Hunter”…

Oh Look, Another Great Trailer For Another Promising PSN Game

Stephen nailed it earlier today when he said the PS3’s “last place” standing is causing Sony to try some refreshingly different stuff. Latest example: this new trailer for The Unfinished Swan, which if you heard described as “oh a game where you wander around painting” sounds boring, but when you see it looks wonderful

Star Wars Looks Rad as a 1980s Teen Movie

Yeah, the first Star Wars was released in 1977, but for most, the franchise is a staple of the decade that came after. Something artist Denis Medri plays on with these awesome images, reimagining the heroes and villains of George Lucas’ universe as the cast of a 1980s teen movie. Yup. Sounds faintly ridiculous, until…

Can Your PC Run Dishonored? Let’s Find Out.

Bethesda have today released the specs for the PC version of Dishonored, a game that tortures me on a weekly basis because, you know, I keep typing “Dishonoured”. They are as follows: Minimum Spec: OS: Windows Vista / Windows 7 Processor: 3.0 GHz dual core or better Memory: 4 GB system RAM Hard Disk Space:…

Snakes. Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?

Raders of the Lost Ark is coming to IMAX. You know what? I’ll take it. For starters, at least it’s not a South Park doomsday scenario where Lucas has decided to add a bunch of CGI bullcrap to the film. It’ll just be higher-res, and I bet that boulder will look great on a huge…

Team Fortress 2 Just Got a Little More Like an RPG (Or Call of Duty)

First revealed yesterday, Team Fortress 2’s new Mann vs Machine mode threatens to be the biggest change the game has experienced in its five year existence. We’ve already seen the robots, now today, we see how the cartoon mercenaries are going to fight those robots. If you’ve played Call of Duty’s zombie mode, you’ll be…

A First-Person Horror Game, in Space, Where You’re Not Shooting (Much). Sign Me Up.

Just because you play a game in the first-person doesn’t mean you have to spend the whole thing with a gun stuck out in front of you. More games should realise this. Like the upcoming Routine, which is billed as a “first person horror exploration game set on an abandoned Moon base”. Which sounds about…

Be Impressed By Her Amazing Ninja Gaiden Skills

A reader named Tim sent in a video of YouTube user Squidlocks playing through the original Ninja Gaiden for the NES, a game that kicked the ass of a much younger me many, many times. And here she is, playing through the first three levels without getting hit once. Not even the damn birds can…

The Pint-Sized Wizards Of Final Fantasy III Bring The Thunder To PSP

This new Japanese trailer for the PSP version of Final Fantasy III shows the team getting their magic on against a variety of foes. It also demonstrates a smart way of showing PSP footage without spreading it out and making it look janky – super-impose smaller footage over bigger, out-of-focus footage! Crafty. Curious about what…

The True Crime of Sleeping Dogs is These Solid Review Scores

Remember back when Activision canned United Front Studios’ True Crime Hong Kong and then Square Enix picked it up and released a game that’s currently got an 83 average on Metacritic. Man, those were crazy times. When I think about all the cash Activision sunk into that True Crime title. All that E3 promotion money,…

Geeky Cross-Stitch Is the Perfect Melding of Retro Game Art with Retro Crafting

Cross-stitch is the perfect medium for 8-bit and 16-bit fan art. Have you ever seen one of the patterns crafters use? They look like pixel art! They’re little grids of color, showing which block goes where, in what shades, to add up to a visible whole. And the craft itself is pretty retro, invoking images…

Hotline Miami: A Neon-Drenched, Hyper-Violent Crime Game You Should Have Your Eye On

One of the games I’m most looking forward to this fall involves wearing disguises, infiltrating strongholds and taking out assassination targets in as smooth a way as possible. No, I’m not talking about Dishonored (though that game looks perfectly fine), I’m talking about Devolver Digital’s Hotline Miami, a new top-down killfest from artist Dennis Wedin…