Relic Entertainment extends the Company of Heroes 2 open beta until Sunday, June 23 at midnight. Get in early and retain your progress post-launch!
Here's the complete version of The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot's E3 2013 trailer, with bloopers aplenty.
Grab a behind the scenes preview for the upcoming World of Tanks 8.6 update.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified announces new digital content with pre-orders, along with a new Battle Focus trailer.
Dennaton Games and Devolver Digital murders the announcement trailer for Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, filled to the brim with all the viciousness you've come to love from the series.
The latest map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops II preps for launch with a brand new preview, detailing the best new strategies.
Activision is just a tad bit slow getting its vehicle into gear after E3 2013, but releases a gameplay trailer for Need for Speed Rivals never the less.
Learn how to play the Technician healing class in Hawken to keep your teammates in the fight.
Relive classic campaign goodness in the launch trailer for Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara.
Utilize magic to the best of your abilities in the new character vignette for Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara.
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Crysis 3 is moving out of the Liberty Dome and into the Pacific closer to where the original series began with the just announced Lost Island DLC. Coming to PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on June 4, the pack will cost $14.99 (1200 MS points).
Crysis 3 appears to be getting a bit of multiplayer downloadable content in the near future. A set of Achievements list four new maps, a new weapon, and new multiplayer modes for the shooter.
The Wii U is a reasonably powerful piece of kit, so how come the recent launch of Crysis 3 skipped it? Developer Crytek did actually have the supersuit shooter up and running on Nintendo's new console, CEO Cevat Yerli has revealed, but the powers that be wouldn't commit to pushing it out and Crytek couldn't self publish. So it was killed.
The PlayStation 4 has been announced, so it shouldn't be a surprise that this week's episode of Weekend Confirmed is all about the new system, services, and software. Though Jeff Cannata is away in Barcelona, Garnett Lee and "Indie" Jeff Mattas are joined by Christian Spicer and Mike Schramm to break down what's exciting, what's concerning, and that which is still unknown about Sony's next-gen console announcements. Though PlayStation 4 is this week's focus, the crew also manages to sneak in some impressions of Crysis 3, and praise for Simogo's moody iOS adventure, Year Walk. Of course, a fresh batch of Finishing Moves brings it all home.
The Crysis series has always been the benchmark for pushing gaming PCs to their limits. Crysis 3 is no different. It is unsurprisingly gorgeous on PC, especially if you have a rig capable of showing off all the wonderful things that CryEngine 3 can do.
But get past the pretty graphics, and you'll discover a strong single-player campaign with engrossing gameplay and a decent-enough story.
An earlier Crysis 3 trailer wanted to inspire awkward feelings of awe and arousal for one of the FPS's guns, apparently. Now a new commercial wants to spark similar desires for its protagonist, with a little help from ZZ Top. Boys want to be him, I guess, and girls want to be with him, probably. Every girl's crazy about a sharp-dressed man, after all.
Crysis 3 is getting a multiplayer beta next week on all platforms, letting eager Nanosuit wearers toy around with it before the game launches properly on February 19. The beta will feature two team-based modes and two maps.
Gosh, aren't guns cool! They're all sleek and shiny, and make loud noises when you kill things. So cool! A new Crysis 3 trailer is dedicated to its new 'Typhoon' super-mega-cool gun, which EA says is "the culmination of 2,000 years of human warfare" and "the purest form of expression." With such an erotic weapon, you could be forgiven for wanting to seductively run your tongue across the tips of its ten barrels.
Free-to-play is the future for Crysis developer Crytek. While Crysis 3 will be a full retail release published by Electronic Arts, the developer considered implementing F2P elements into the upcoming shooter.
"We even considered a standalone free-to-play version for Crysis 2, to be honest. Launching the single-player as a packaged good and then making multiplayer free-to-play-only," Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli said. "We also considered that for Crysis 3, and it didn't happen again."
At an Electronic Arts holiday showcase dominated by shooters this week, Crysis 3 stood out as being the most polished and impressive of the bunch. Of course, polish has never really been an issue for the Crysis series. It remains famous for being The Benchmark--the kind of game that can push even a dedicated gaming rig to its limits. That tradition looks to continue with Crysis 3. At the event, the demo was running on $5,000 computers, and my, did it ever look fine.
Crysis 3 has more going for it than just great graphics though. At this early stage, it also looks like a very challenging shooter. Possibly the most challenging shooter of 2013.
PCnauts have become pretty complacent about system requirements of multiplatform games, knowing even a modest gaming PC is faster than the consoles so they should be fine. Crysis 3 is a little less forgiving. The system requirements are confirmed, so you may want to start eying an upgrade if you fancy playing Crytek's super-suit shooter with all the bells and whistles on.
The urban rainforest of New York City is the playground for Crysis 3, unless you are the CELL troopers trying to stay alive as Prophet silently picks them off with his bow from stealth in his nanosuit. A new trailer shows off single-player action in a new area of the Liberty Dome, called The Fields.
The trailer shows Prophet and "Psycho" Sykes searching for alien weapons in a not-so abandoned transit yard. Lots of firefights and explosions ensue, with the guys from CELL not coming out on the positive side.
Pre-ordering Crysis 3 will get you a free copy of the original game, EA and Crytek announced today. The offer is good across all platforms, thanks to last year's console port of the first game.
Are you buying Crysis 3 for its multiplayer? No, of course you're not: you're interested in the single-player campaign. However, as you'll be paying for multiplayer anyway, you may as well give it a go before you return to your online vice of choice. A new trailer out today details two of the FPS's modes, so go on, give it a look.
A fresh new batch of Crysis 3 screenshots are out showing just a bit more of the Hunter-mode multiplayer coming for the game, pitting two nanosuited hunters against 14 CELL troopers. It just doesn't seem like a fair fight.
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