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Kalypso Media announces it plans to bring Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar to PC this spring from Longbow Digital Arts.
Tindalos Interactive, the minds behind Stellar Impact, present the first look at the upcoming real-time strategy Etherium.
Take a short tour through the character creation system of Blackguards from Daedalic Entertainment.
The tale of SpellForce 2 comes to an end with the release of Demons of the Past, where players must fight to save the land of Eo in a lengthy campaign.
Aveline, the first playable female Assassin throughout the series, brings a whole host of brand new weapons and skills to New Orleans in Assassin's Creed Liberation HD.
You're going to die. Accept it, and come to terms with your cursed existence in Dark Souls II.
Rock out to the best of Oasis in a new downloadable song pack for Rocksmith 2014 Edition.
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Meet Vella, making a grand debut in Double Fine's Broken Age, in this short debut trailer.
Meet Shay, making a grand debut in Double Fine's Broken Age, in this short debut trailer.
The previously announced Titanfall K'NEX playsets are coming this fall. There will be six different sets, ranging from $13 to $45.
The priciest ones include over 500 pieces and will let you build out Angel City. $35 will let you build a 12" Titan, which includes a pilot figure that works within the mech. You can see all the purchasing options at Kotaku.
Infamous: Second Son is set to launch next week, marking one of the first big exclusives for the freshly launched PlayStation 4. It's also a departure from prior Infamous games, featuring a new protagonist who can absorb the powers of other super-beings. According to Sucker Punch, this is a direct response to decisions from Infamous 2 that they felt got too complex.
Nintendo was at the center of a debacle last year when it denied permission to Evo Championship Series tournament organizers to broadcast Super Smash Bros. Melee for its annual event. The move was particularly galling to many, since the game's fans had raised over $90,000 for charity to bring it to Evo. This year, all parties aimed to avoid such ugliness and, after a brief round of negotiations, Super Smash Bros. Melee will make its return to Evo this July.
Pocketwatch Games, the studio behind Monaco, has announced its next game: a real-time strategy game code-named "Armada." But just as it tried to refine the stealth formula with simplicity in Monaco, it's aiming to make Armada feel just as good on a dual-analog gamepad as most RTS games do with a keyboard and mouse.
Dark Souls 2 launched on Xbox 360 and PS3 earlier this week, to the excitement of many within the Shacknews community. To help commemorate the launch, producer Tak Miyazoe recently spoke out about various aspects of the game, including answering some of Chatty's questions about the game's difficulty, online system, and the upcoming PC version.
The Angry Birds franchise continues to expand. Go! turned the avian-flinging franchise into a kart racer. With Angry Birds Epic, Rovio is turning the series into a turn-based role-playing game.
Carbine Studios has been eager to show off various aspects of WildStar's vast world, like the game's PvE quests and Adventures. Today, the studio is ready to go more into detail on what the MMORPG's PvP will entail, while also giving Shacknews an opportunity to try it out.
Diablo III may not have been quite what everyone wanted at launch, but after two years of patching, including a big revamp of loot recently, it's in pretty decent shape all right. With the expansion Reaper of Souls launching in a few weeks, now's probably the best time yet to buy the click 'em up, especially as Blizzard is selling it at half-price for a while, down to $19.95.
For those already in on the monster-clicking fun, Blizzard has also released a trailer delving into the backstory and abilities of the expansion's new Paladin-y class, the Crusader.
11 bit studios, developer of the Anomaly series, has announced their next game: This War of Mine. The debut trailer may make it seem like any ol' war game, but there's a twist: it's all about civilians.
Instead of having players control an elite soldier, This War of Mine puts civilians in the crossfire. Described as a "dark survival game," players must stay alive in a besieged city. "During the day snipers outside stop you from leaving your refuge, offering players time to craft, trade, upgrade their shelter, feed and cure their people. At night they must scavenge nearby areas in search for food, medicines, weapons and other useful items," the announcement reads.
Heroes of the Storm is adding a new character to its expanding roster and is welcoming in StarCraft II's renegade outlaw, Tychus Findlay. The Terran Marine will serve in the Assassin role, like Diablo's Valla and Warcraft's Falstad.
R.B.I. Baseball 14 is the only officially licensed multi-platform baseball alternative to MLB The Show. Launching April 10 for Xbox 360, PS3, and mobile platforms, the new game will attempt to stay close to its classic roots, while featuring a more modern art style and brisker pace.
Sonic Boom is another attempt to modernize and update the classic Sega character, but this time the publisher is handing it off to western developer Big Red Button. Creative director Bob Rafei is heading up the effort, and says he's thinks kids' properties need the sensibilities of popular shows like Adventure Time and Phineas and Ferb.
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WildStar is going to offer far more than a vast world and a variety of quests. In an effort to become the definitive MMORPG that Carbine Studios wants it to be, the game will also feature a robust dungeon system that both clings to traditional elements and also adds a number of new twists. And Shacknews got to experience part of that by going hands-on with a traditional five-person dungeon and also a much larger and more competitive 40-person Post Cap Playspace instance.
WildStar's dungeon system fully embraces the MMORPG genre's vaunted 'holy trinity' system. Five-person dungeon raids are built for parties of one tank, one healer, and three DPS characters. In order to tackle my first dungeon, I joined forces with four fellow WildStar players and picked up a DPS character to tackle Stormtalon's Lair.
The Elder Scrolls Online is the rare MMO that will launch with a subscription fee. Surely, the company would attract a larger audience by going free-to-play? Bethesda VP Pete Hines defended his company's decision, saying that restricting the audience was intentional. "We're not trying to make a game that everybody who plays games will automatically buy," he said. "It is a certain kind of game. There's no shooter elements. There's no aliens."
Blizzard's collectible card game Hearthstone officially launched yesterday as free-to-play, with a little free-to-pony touch on top. Playing only a few Hearthstone matches will net you a special flying horse mount to gallivant around atop in World of Warcraft.
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