League of Legends CGI trailer celebrates Season One
These Defense of the Ancients-style arena games are really popular, as it turns out. To rally attention to its now-live Season One release, Riot Games has released an impressive CGI trailer for League...
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim trailer, release date
There’s a new Elder Scrolls V trailer, oh yeah and the Elder Scrolls V was announced. The release date is 11th of November next year, it’s set in the snowy province of Skyrim, it’s called Skyrim, and...
View ArticleJetpacks ahoy! The first footage of Firefall PvP
Ever seen a sci-fi guy execute another sci-fi guy with a jetboot thruster? Brutal. Firefall continues to be a curiosity, and this first footage of its PvP adds to our hope that it’ll be a wise...
View ArticleE3 2011: Mass Effect 3 trailer shows in-game footage of Reaper fights and...
[bcvideo id="980199540001"] We’ve already shown you the Mass Effect 3 trailer, but – as seems to be the zeitgeist (thanks, Dead Island trailer from a while ago, for that trend) – a lot of it was CGI....
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Dead Island’s trailer getting its own movie. The game? Not so much
And so life (or un-life, I suppose) comes full circle. Game trailers tend to take heavy inspiration from film, and Dead Island’s – while pretty damn incredible – was no different. Now, though,...
View ArticleTERA gets into the spirit of Halloween with new trailer
EnMasse has released a new spooky themed trailer for their upcoming MMO, TERA. In the style of a Grimm Fairy Tale, the video tells a story of a young woman who find trouble after venturing into the...
View ArticleNew Serious Sam trailer shows meaty melee brutality
Are you at all squeamish? Does the sight of enough blood to drown the lost city of Atlantis make you go sheet-white? Which way does the prospect of a man ripping out a cyclops’ eyeball and then...
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Guild Wars 2 leaked video reveals Mesmer as the next profession
Prepare to be Mesmer-ized. Yes, the regal Mesmer is the final profession to join the Guild Wars 2 class catalog. GamesReactor Denmark seems to have accidentally jumped the gun, posting the class...
View ArticleThe Secret World trailer spills the beans on the Illuminati
In an bold move, the worlds most secret society has released a trailer revealing itself to the world. In the latest trailer for The Secret World, spotted on Evil Avatar, the washed up, whisky swilling...
View ArticleNew Spec Ops: The Line trailer shows brutal atrocities, stuff blowing up
A new Spec Ops: The Line “community gameplay” trailer has appeared on YouTube. It’s “exclusively for the community,” somehow, and contains a smidgen of new gameplay footage. In the trailer,...
View ArticlePlanetSide 2 GDC alpha footage highlights
Late last week, Sony Online Entertainment released a video of the best moments from the PlanetSide 2 alpha demo which debuted last month at GDC. The footage, which is narrated by Creative Director...
View ArticleSpec Ops: The Line multiplayer trailer reveals zip-lines, head stomping, and...
Remember the sandstorm chase scene in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol? Well, this isn’t really like that, but Spec Ops: The Line’s multiplayer does feature sandstorms in Dubai. Instead of Tom...
View ArticleCall of Duty: Black Ops 2 trailer pits men and horses against future machines
Stick around — later tonight we’ll have quotes from our interview with Treyarch Studio Head Mark Lamia and our first impressions of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. In the meantime, the reveal trailer...
View ArticleAssassin’s Creed 3 teaser trailer teases world premiere gameplay trailer
If you want to be marketed to these days, you’ve got to work for it. The latest Assassin’s Creed III teaser bloodies up a Red Coat to motivate us to get on-board with game’s big social media push. By...
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Watch 20 minutes of Dead Space 3 gameplay footage with commentary
Executive Producer Steve Papoutsis is all about “pulping” with a “giant freaking drill,” and other things that are “super awesome.” The impression I get is that Dead Space 3 is very much about things...
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Penny Arcade Adventures 3 released, trailer implores you to remember the past
Old sprites never die, they just fade away and/or move inside indie games. Penny Arcade Adventures 3 – or, Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 – is full of old, not-dead sprites....
View ArticleShootMania Storm trailer hops between perspectives of hopping frags
We’re all doomed if bunnies ever figure out how to use guns — walking and running are pitifully useless tactics against hopping, as you can see in the latest ShootMania Storm trailer. It’s actually...
View ArticlePlanetSide 2 “Death is No Excuse” CGI trailer is over three minutes of...
Sony Online Entertainment debuted the complete PlanetSide 2 CGI trailer today at the ChinaJoy International Digital Entertainment Expo. Wow, what a spectacle. It’s obviously not at all representative...
View ArticleWorld of Tanks to be overhauled with new physics and improved graphics in...
Wargaming has announced a huge update for World of Tanks — Update 8.0 — which includes an “improved game engine,” new features, and new content. Most notably, the update is said to introduce...
View ArticleNew Dishonored trailer compiles creative, dishonorable kills
Another day, another Dishonored trailer, and another demonstration of its magic murdering methods. In this trailer, the assassin protagonist has some fun with his prey by booby-trapping plague rats...
View ArticleLEGO The Lord of the Rings gets Gamescom trailer, LEGOlas joke goes unmade
I like the LEGO games, and I like The Lord of the Rings. I also like the look of “LEGO LOTR.” The official title, LEGO The Lord of the Rings with the “the,” however, I don’t love, but trademarks are...
View ArticleCrysis 3′s Hunter multiplayer mode pits invisible bowmen against the most...
In Crysis 3′s Hunter mode — revealed in the trailer above — two nanosuited-up predators (not Predators, but also kind of like that) will have to hunt down 14 Cell troopers who are just looking for a...
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Borderlands 2 video blast: tantalizing tech demo and hour-long gameplay
We’ve already gazed at Borderlands 2 trailers blaring arena-style beast combat, Handsome Jack’s hilariously long face, and South African doo-wop, but today’s reels highlight Nvidia’s impressive PhysX...
View ArticleBorderlands 2 is out tonight: launch trailer derails hero train, reiterates...
As I write, Borderlands 2 is about seven hours away from release in North America. Eee! But before letting it march out of pre-purchase prison at midnight, Gearbox had to jingle the cell keys one last...
View ArticleCrysis 3 multiplayer trailer: 16-player support for PC version, New York...
The Crysis 3 Department of Trailer Distribution has distributed yet another Crysis 3 trailer – it’s what they do! This one weaves a tale of two multiplayer modes, Hunter and Crash-Site, and reveals...
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BioShock Infinite reminds us it exists with Beasts of America trailer
It’s tempting to fear the worst for BioShock Infinite, with more and more Irrational Games staff members jumping ship each time we check in on it, but thankfully there are enough of them left to have...
View ArticleSimCity trailer: a mustachioed overview of urban planning, region play, and...
Creative Director Ocean Quigley isn’t just the charismatic mayor of mustaches: he’s an accomplished artist who’s been working on the SimCity series since the ’90s. In Maxis’ latest developer diary,...
View ArticleFar Cry 3′s co-op trailer is a swearing masterclass
British Characterisation Alert! In case you couldn’t tell that Callum – the narrator of this Far Cry 3 co-op trailer – was Scottish from his name, his unquestionably authentic accent, or the caption...
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Potatoman Seeks the Troof has a trailer that has to be seen to be believed
Potatoes. Potatoes? Potatoes. Potatoman Seeks The Troof is a game about potatoes. It’s also a game about the ‘troof’, which I sincerely hope Potatoman can handle. In troof, it’s a 2D platform game...
View ArticleNew Rise of the Triad trailer is holiday twisted
The morning after being visited by three specters (or perhaps three jackbooted Nazi-ish occultists), Apogee has posted an all-new holiday-themed trailer for its upcoming remake of Rise of the Triad....
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Frozen Endzone interview
Coinciding with the announcement of Frozen Endzone by Mode 7 Games, I’ve had an unusually detailed, information-packed talk with the Ian Hardingham (Lead Designer, Lead Programmer, Joint Managing...
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Frozen Endzone announced by Mode 7 Games, a simultaneous turn-based strategy...
Mode 7 Games has announced a sporty successor to Frozen Synapse, our 2011 Strategy Game of the Year, and one we continue to recommend as a kind of turn-based, top-down Counter-Strike. The British...
View ArticleBanished alpha footage mixes survival and city building, makes your day better
Alpha footage of Banished, a city builder from one-man developer Shining Rock Software, walked right by me as it went to YouTube a couple days ago. What was I looking at while it passed behind my...
View ArticleDungeon Defenders 2 co-op gameplay revealed in first trailer
Earlier this week, Trendy Entertainment announced that Dungeon Defenders 2—a follow-up to the co-op action tower defense original—will be free-to-play and feature a competitive MOBA mode. The new mode...
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TimeGate Studios announces Minimum, creates unholy union between Minecraft,...
Timegate Studios revealed its upcoming third-person shooter, Minimum, which can only be described as a combination of Halo’s guns, Minecraft’s look and Quake’s frantic multiplayer pacing. The company...
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4A Games releases first survival training video for Metro: Last Light
You too will know the joys of fighting humans and mutants as you vie for control of a doomsday weapon, comrade. 4A Games has released the first survival guide tutorial for its upcoming Metro: Last...
View ArticleWatch Dogs trailer shows new gameplay footage, urban chaos
When Ubisoft revealed Watch Dogs last year, there was some initial uncertainty about how the game’s structure and mechanics would mesh. Would it be an urban Deus-Ex-meets-Hitman hacking and...
View ArticleRemember Me trailer explains how we’ll play the game of mind games
The latest trailer for Capcom’s Remember Me spends six-and-a-half minutes explaining its backstory, memory modification techniques, and cute made-up words like “Remembrane.” As a gifted “memory...
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Surrealist stealth game Tangiers will let you collect conversations, hurl...
I don’t know where Tangiers has been hiding, but I’m glad it’s finally emerged from the shadows of its stark industrial environment to show off its first teaser trailer, because it’s a doozy. Inspired...
View ArticlePayday 2 gameplay trailer shows a clean heist get messy
The folks at Overkill Software have released a new gameplay trailer for Payday 2, the latest game in their bank robbing franchise. If there’s one lesson to be learned from it, it’s “leave no...
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Hellraid E3 trailer features skeletons by the boneload, looks a bit like Hexen
Taking a break from making games about zombies, or games about zombies, Techland are making a game about zombies (well, and skeletons), in the form of co-op first-person fantasy Hellraid. Its Game...
View ArticleMeridian: New World assembles a debut trailer
We were just talking about the new single-player RTS, Meridian: New World, a couple days ago, wishing we could see some footage of the newly-announced game rather than some logo-emblazoned...
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Might & Magic X gets spiffy new trailer, adds early access this coming Monday
Might & Magic’s main series – referring to the massive first-person RPGs, rather than the strategy spin-off, the first-person orc-kicking simulator, or the inspired match-3 thingy – is set to...
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Procedural dodge-’em-up Race The Sun is out now
Some people praise the sun, while others seem determined to race it, as potentially disastrous as that sounds. Flippfly’s procedural dodge-’em-up Race The Sun is now out, after soaring (well,...
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XCOM: Enemy Within ‘War Machines’ trailer features bio-augs, mechs,...
Just over a week ago, news broke of XCOM: Enemy Within – a very orangey expansion to Enemy Unknown. The accompanying video, in true XCOM tradition, showed a shadowy guy saying things in his Serious...
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Shadow Warrior gets a ‘wangtastic’ new trailer, flaunts fish physics and...
Shadow Warrior’s new trailer is not only a great showcase for Flying Wild Hog’s upcoming reboot – it’s also a brilliant pisstake of all those ‘next-gen’ engine trailers that will literally zoom in on...
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Treasure Adventure World gets pre-order campaign thing, plus soaring new trailer
Treasure Adventure World – based on the lovely freeware platformer Treasure Adventure Game – is totally a thing, and as of roundabout…now it’s totally a thing that you can pay for in advance of...
View ArticleTerraria 1.2 trailer dishes out some wizardry and witchcraft
Terraria developer Andrew Spinks announced last week that the 1.2 update will be ready (and free) on Steam on October 1, while promising a new trailer would soon be in our midst. This is that trailer....
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