Apply For The SimCity Beta Right Now!

Have a PC? Want to play SimCity? SimCity Is Awesome? Yes It Is?! …uh, well, anyway, there’s a beta you can sign up for (sorry, Mac fans) so you can play the game (in confidence) a full six months before it’ll be on store shelves, or digital shelves.

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Did You Buy Dead Island? Chances Are It Was For The Co-op

We found it necessary to search not one, but two retailers to find copies of Dead Island when it released a year ago. Everyone was hot for it; we definitely were. To date, the game has pushed four million copies, becoming Techland’s biggest game ever with players logging 6500 years of game time. Why was the game so successful? Because of the co-op.

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Want to Get Your Hands on the Next Xbox Right Now?

Over this past weekend an auction ended on eBay for a “Microsoft XBOX Durango Development Kit.” Yes, Durango as in code for whatever the new Xbox is going to be. This alleged development kit sold for just over $20,000. The seller, superDaE posted pictures of the development kit in July as well as leaked images of what the Kinect 2 sees so people are taking him to credible. How can you own it if it sold? Well DaE re-listed it saying the original buyer backed out. Read the rest of this article…

New Star Trek Gamescom Trailer

I love me some Star Trek. Announcing a new trailer along with concept art and screen shots probably pleases me more than it will anyone else. I’m OK with that. Regardless of how I may or may not feel, the new media shows off dynamic co-op multiplayer gameplay with Captain Kirk and Spock. Also, Gorn.

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Darksiders 2 Review: Death Deals With Old Frustrations, So Do You

I didn’t get a chance to play the original Darksiders, but that might’ve been because all the reviews touted it as a ‘mature version of Zelda’, which is a certifiable method for me to not buy your game. This isn’t the space to justify my antagonism toward Zelda, but I was more than happy to set aside my feelings about that unique brand of action/puzzle/platformer for just a moment to enjoy Darksiders 2. As Death, one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, you feel far less like a harbinger of destruction and agony and far more like the Prince of Persia if Todd MacFarlane had a pass at him. That’ll probably be fine for you, but underneath all this hacking, slashing, and blood-letting, the creaking bones of this game made me weary.

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Sleeping Dogs Review: Big Trouble In Little China?

Square Enix – publisher of megagames like Hitman and Tomb Raider – is set to release its Chinese gangland action game soon and we have had a couple of opportunities to get our hands on it. I talked about it at E3 and then the wonderful folks over at Square sent us a review copy of the game so we could share our opinion with all of you… And that’s what we’re best at!

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Shadowrun Online Kickstarter Nearing Completion – Needs Your Help!

The kickstarter for Shadowrun online has less than 24 hours left and they need you’re help. They’ve raised about 75% of the funds they were looking for and are making a huge push to pull in that last quarter. Check out the release, below, and get on this one. IT’S SHADOWRUN, DUDES!!!

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Epic Completes People Can Fly Acquisition, But Is There Anyone Left?

You may not have played Painkiller, but you should (seriously, it’s super cheap on Steam, yo). Despite being eight years old, it’s still an incredibly imaginative Doom clone in which you slaughter dozens of bizarre beasts in a jumble of weird levels, like haunted houses, military bases, and opera houses. It’s a product of eastern Europe’s quirk and it set Polish developer People Can Fly on the high road to success. But no longer.

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If This is Going to be the New iPhone, I Don’t Want It

I don’t normally like to report on rumors but that’s not what this is. I just want to vent my frustrations on what may or may not be the new iPhone that is set to release in September. I feel strongly that what you see above is what the new iPhone will look like and that frustrates the hell out of me. Read the rest of this article…

City of Steam Preview And Alpha Key Giveaway [UPDATE: Giveaway Over!]

It appears that, lately, we’ve become awash in free-to-play games. Let’s face it: people want to play for free, those same people are getting over the idea that ‘free’ means ‘garbage’, and with rich gaming engines like Unity, small developers are able to build epic experiences that only large teams could build years ago. Enter City of Steam, a new freemium web-based MMO (read: not tied to Facebook) that takes place in a sort of post-steampunk world. And guess what? We’ve giving away access for the game’s next Alpha wave next weekend.

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