Max Payne 3 (Xbox 360, PS3, PC) The third installment of the third-person shooter series finally arrives, the first new Max Payne game in eight years and the first made for the current generation of consoles. Max Payne 3 takes place eight years after the events of the last game follows the eponymous protagonist to [...]
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There’s now another out for MechWarrior Online, the upcoming free-to-play game from Piranha Games based on the BattleTech universe. Like previous MechWarrior games, MechWarrior Online is an action/vehicle sim game that allows the player to pilot one of the colossal bipedal war machines called BattleMechs that dominate the battlefields of the war-torn 31st century. This [...]
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There is a new trailer out for Assassin’s Creed 3 showing the gameplay of the next entry in the action/stealth series for the first time. Moving the timeline forward from the 11th-century Middle East setting of the first Assassin’s Creed and the Renaissance-era Italy of the second, Assassin’s Creed 3 takes place in America during [...]
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Iceberg Interactive has announced that it plans to release its new 4X interstellar empire strategy game Endless Space for PCs on August 24th. Endless Space is a game in the vein of titles like Master of Orion and Galactic Civilizations, putting the player in charge of an interstellar empire as it colonizes new worlds, discovers [...]
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Starhawk (PayStation 3)- Third-person vehicle combat/shooter game based on the 2007 title Warhawk, which was in turn based on Warhawk for the original Sony PlayStation. Unlike its 2007 predecessor, which was a purely multiplayer game, Starhawk will include a single-player campaign, though the fact that it’s the sequel to a game so multiplayer-focused that it [...]
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Bethesda Softworks, developer of the long-running The Elder Scrolls series of RPGs, has announced that a massively multiplayer online RPG based on the the Elder Scrolls universe, entitled The Elder Scrolls Online, has been under development for several years now. A brief teaser trailer has been released. I’m not a fan of MMORPGS, but this [...]
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Sega has just put out a slew of classic Sega Genesis games for play on the PC through the Steam download service. Entitled the Sega Genesis Classics Pack 5 in North America and Sega Mega Drive Classics Collection 5 in Europe (as the system was originally called in that market), the collection contains 10 games [...]
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Sniper Elite V2 (PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)- Remake/reboot of the third-person tactical shooter originally released in 2005. Set in Berlin in 1945, its story focuses on an American Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA) agent on a mission to assassinate or capture German scientists working for the German rocketry program that produced [...]
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Electronic Arts has revealed the announcement trailer for Crysis 3, the third game in Crytek’s series of first-person shooters. First off, kudos to whoever put the trailer together for filling so much of it with footage of actual gameplay. I’ve grown increasingly annoyed over the years by how many trailers, especially early or announcement trailers, [...]
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SNK Playmore has just released its 1989 title Ikari III: The Rescue as a downloadable game on the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3 and Sony PSP in North and South America. The game (originally released as Ikari Warriors III in the US during its original appearance) is part of SNK’s ongoing series of rereleased [...]
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