It’s been a heavily hectic year, and there’s been so much news at the year’s end that a few things slip by without due record, but we were just cleaning up the loose ends here and noticed something we had let slip by. Well, rectifying past wrongs, here it is: early this month, Microsoft announced [...]
Nihilistic Software, the once-upon-a-Zerg-dawn developer of Starcraft: Ghost, have been laying low since the fiascoes surrounding the tactical stealth game based on Blizzard’s popular sci-fi universe. Their last title was Zombie Apocalypse available on XBox Live and Playstation Network, but it appears they’ll be returning to the AAA forefront in the years to come.
By Ravi Sinha
With great power comes great responsibility, goes the old Spiderman axiom. But Peter Parker was permitted his douche-bag excesses every and now then, sans movie lore. So while Ubisoft Montreal, developer of Assassin’s Creed 2 with Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands and Splinter Cell Conviction to follow, delivers something a little bit [...]
Valve Software recently published the slides of Michael Booth’s presentation at Stanford’s recent Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference, wherein he talks about the AI systems of their FPS co-op hit Left4Dead.
Insomniac Games first made a reputation for itself with the Spyro series, before moving onto Ratchet & Clank in the Playstation 2 era. It was only natural that people would associate them with cartoonish games but they stunned everyone with Resistance, a gritty sci-fi FPS with surprising elements of horror incorporated into the creature design. [...]
Some people may question Bungie’s development time when it comes to Halo, especially after news that the company created Halo 3: ODST in only 14 months. Well, that may get all the more uglier as we’ve uncovered info regarding just when the so-called “biggest game of 2010″ Halo: Reach will wrap up development.
Jan-Bart van Beek is no stranger to perfection. Especially when he was behind the painstakingly nuanced environments of Guerrilla Games’ Killzone 2 for the PS3. There’s certainly an interesting past to his involvement – he played a key role in the notorious E3 2005 “target render” trailer of KZ 2 – and he commented not [...]
It may rattle you to know that an updated version of Capcom’s Street Fighter IV exists. The debate is still on regarding whether any of this – new stages, characters and whatnot – could not have been made available through DLC. Nonetheless, Capcom recently revealed five new stages that’ll feature in the upcoming Super Street [...]
Microsoft India is ringing in the festive season with a vengeance. In celebration of St.Nick’s one-night Solid Snake impression, you can buy an XBox 360 Arcade for Rs. 16,690 and get five games for free. These aren’t your small lame-grossers either – critically and commercially acclaimed titles like Forza 2 and Halo 3 are among [...]
Haven’t heard of Spec Ops? After Rangers Lead the Way, it was subject to an embarrassing menagerie of sequels all intended to compete with Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear. Eight years after it’s last iteration, YAGER and 2K Games revealed Spec Ops: The Line at the Spike TV 2009 VGAs. And yes, while I tell [...]
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