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First Impressions Spec Ops: The Line
End of the line
Spec Ops: The Line owes a lot to the Uncharted series — and not just because Nolan North lends his voice to the game’s gruff protagonist Captain Martin Walker. The combat – which takes place from a third-person perspective – is hugely derivative of Nathan Drake’s series, as you meander between conveniently placed vehicles...
News Confront the Sand in New Spec Ops: The Line Trailer
Bucket and spade
We’ve all spent trips to the seaside playing in the sand, but Spec Ops: The Line doesn’t look quite so innocent. The Yager developed shooter sees the typically tranquil Dubai coated in more sand than the Sahara desert. It doesn't help that there's a number of shady folks hanging around either. The good news is that you play as a...
News The Siren Screams into BioShock Infinite
Certainly not that kind of siren
Irrational Games has lifted the lid on BioShock Infinite’s final Heavy Hitter. Named the Siren, the spiritual performer possesses the ability to bring back the dead. Creative director Ken Levine explains that the real challenge in battle is deciding whether to focus on the Siren itself, or its resurrected puppets...
News BioShock Vita Was Announced Before Development Started
Would you kindly...?
Sony kindly asked Ken Levine to announce BioShock Vita before the game even started production, the developer has revealed. Speaking in an interview with Eurogamer.net, the series creator said that he agreed to the request due to Sony being such a great partner to Irrational Games: Look, generally when I announce something...
News BioShock Infinite's "Boys of Silence" Are Surprisingly Loud
Frightening, too
Of all the Heavy Hitters developer Irrational Games has revealed for BioShock Infinite, the so-called “Boys of Silence” are by far the most terrifying. Look, we don’t particularly fancy coming up against a mechanical George Washington either, but we’d prefer it to one of these faceless menaces. We'll be having nightmares...
News Meet BioShock Infinite's Handyman
Tool up
BioShock Infinite is set in a completely different world to the original title, so naturally there are no Big Daddies or Little Sisters. Instead there are Heavy Hitters, of which we’ve already been introduced to one: the Motorized Patriot. Now Irrational Games has raised the curtain on the game’s second heavy hitter, known as the...
News BioShock Infinite Motion Support Moving Forward
Day and date
Irrational Games’ fascinating gaffer Ken Levine has confirmed that BioShock Infinite’s vaunted PlayStation Move support will be available day and date with the game’s release. The developer has been pretty quiet about the feature since it was confirmed at E3 last year, but Ken Levine told Eurogamer.net that the reason for the...
News BioShock Vita is "Something Completely Different"
Show and tell
BioShock Infinite may be the emphasis for Ken Levine’s Irrational Games right now, but the luminary has not forgotten his PS Vita announcement from last year’s E3. In fact, according to Levine, BioShock Vita is in the works as we speak – the developer is just not ready to talk about it yet: We're working on it. We're trying to...
News BioShock Infinite Introduces Motorized Patriot
Be afraid
BioShock had the Big Daddies. BioShock 2 had the Big Sisters. Thus it’s only natural that BioShock Infinite should have a fearless enemy type of its own. That part is to be played by the Motorized Patriot, a clockwork porcelain interpretation of George Washington armed with a Gatling gun and a haunting stare. You can learn more about the...
Rumour 2K Czech Working on Grand Theft Auto V
Mafia III in production too
Mafia developer 2K Czech is collaborating with Rockstar North on Grand Theft Auto V, according to reports. A VG247 source claimed that the studio has been working on the game for almost a year, lending its cinematic expertise to help produce better cut-scenes for the hotly anticipated open world title. According to the...
News BioShock Infinite Invades UK on 19th October
Pie in the sky
2K’s announced that Irrational Games’ hotly anticipated BioShock follow-up, BioShock Infinite, will launch in North America on the 16th October. Europe will have to wait just a few additional days for the first-person shooter, when it releases overseas on the 19th October. Creative director Ken Levine said: After BioShock, we had...
News Borderlands 2 Release Dates Revealed
Loot 'em up
You’ve got a little over six months to get your OCD in check, as Gearbox has announced that compulsive looter Borderlands 2 is set to be unleashed on 18th September in North America and 21st September in Europe. While that date’s still some time away, Gearbox wants you to pledge your interest in the title early by rewarding all...
News Spec Ops Crosses the Finish Line on 26th June
Done and dusted
After an outrageously protracted development cycle, 2K Games has finally attached a release date to Spec Ops: The Line. The sandy shooter is due out on 26th June according to a new trailer released by the publisher, which we’ve handily embedded below. (Don’t say we don’t do anything for you.) 2K also confirmed pre-order bonuses...
News The Darkness II Launch Trailer Goes Moody, Gun Heavy
In order to celebrate the release of The Darkness II's demo on the PlayStation Store today, 2K's tossed over the game's launch trailer in order to get us totally salivating over the title's early February release
It's rare that a game lets you play as an absolute juggernaut of questionable motive, but The Darkness certainly brings something new to...
News BioShock Infinite Nets Fancy 'Hard' Mode
Don't let publisher 2K Games' press release confuse you: BioShock Infinite's cleverly named '1999' mode (after System Shock 2, we presume) is not about pre-Millennium parties -- instead it's about making the upcoming PS3 title fudging hard
1999 mode goes beyond tweaking with health statistics — like most difficulty settings — by adapting the...
News XCOM FPS Delayed Until 2013, Firaxis Strategy Title Still Set For 2012
With the hardcore XCOM fanbase satiated by last week's Game Informer cover reveal, 2K Games has announced that its maligned, but promising looking, XCOM FPS has been pushed back until 2013
The title — which is in development at 2K Marin — has seen several reboots since its initial unveiling way back in 2010, but was reportedly in top-form at...
News The Darkness II Descends Onto The PlayStation Network Later This Month
We're pretty sure 2K Games understands that February is a stacked month for games
With Binary Domain, Grand Slam Tennis 2 and the launch of the PlayStation Vita all vying for your cash — the publisher hopes that by releasing a demo for The Darkness II your money will gravitate towards its dark, comic-book inspired game. It's unclear what The...
News XCOM: Enemy Unknown Appeases Fans, Returns To Strategy
XCOMing
If you were one of those people that hopped straight onto NeoGAF to voice your disgust at 2K Marin's first-person XCOM reboot, then this announcement is for you; the latest issue of Game Informer magazine has revealed that Civilization developer Firaxis Games is currently working on a new XCOM title named XCOM: Enemy Unkown — and, yes,...
News Ken Levine Disappointed With The Physical Interest In BioShock: Infinite's Elizabeth
Irrational Games' outspoken gaffer, Ken Levine, has spoken out about his "disappointment" regarding the gaming community's sexualised response to BioShock: Infinite's female protagonist, Elizabeth
The luminary said in an interview with OXM that creating a sex symbol was never the developer's intent, and that it's a shame that gamers are so focused...
News Spec Ops: The Line Plays With Sand, Shoots Up Skylines
The soldiers of Spec Ops: The Line haven't got time to sit around making sand-castles -- there's a war to fight
2K's released a new trailer for the upcoming third-person shooter, which shows various montages of gameplay footage. There's shooting, there's explosions and there's sand. The game's definitely got a unique style to it, but we're a little...
News VGA 2011: Latest BioShock Infinite Trailer Gives Us Goosebumps
Leave it to BioShock Infinite to pull something amazing out of the bag
And who knew it would be so simple? The latest trailer for Irrational Games' magnus opus shows destruction in the city of Columbia, and sets it all to the relaxing sound of an acoustic country song. Seriously elegant stuff. Make sure you watch the trailer after the break.
News Brand New BioShock Infinite Trailer To Debut At The VGAs
Shocking
If you thought you were going to have to wait until 2012 for another look at BioShock Infinite, how's this for a nice surprise? A hyperactive Geoff Keighley has teased — with a single, secretive screenshot — that Irrational Games' latest PS3 shooter is set to get a brand new trailer at this weekend's VGAs. The game will join The Last...
News The Darkness II Scores Four Player Co-Operative Mode
You absolutely won't need to harbor The Darkness alone
Publisher 2K Games has announced this afternoon that The Darkness II will sport a four-player co-operative game mode known as Vendettas. The moody mode takes place in parallel to the main plot, and has players assuming the role of four different characters, each possessing a unique Darkness...
News NBA 2K12 Legends Showcased in New DLC
Back to court
NBA 2K12 is one of the best sports games of recent times, even though its PlayStation Move features aren't everything we'd hoped for. Anyone still rattling the rim with Jordan, Bird and company might want to check out the new Legends Showcase DLC that hits the PlayStation Store this week. Costing £6.30 in the UK or $9.99 in North...
News Spec Ops: The Line Confirmed For Spring 2012 Release, New Trailer Released
After going missing in action for over eighteen months, 2K's finally re-announced its oft-delayed third-person shooter Spec Ops: The Line
The game's now due out in Spring 2012, and will put you in control of a US Delta Force soldier named Captain Walker. The desert setting's still in place, dropping you amidst a sandstorm in Dubai with the intention...
News Spec Ops: The Line To Get New Trailer Next Week
It's been a while since we saw 2K Games' Spec Ops: The Line
The ambitious desert-based shooter was first shown at the 2009 VGAs and has been missing in action ever since. But it will return next week with a brand new trailer and a raft of impressions to go with it. And just to keep everyone interested, the publisher has released a brand new...
News Ken Levine Is In No Rush To Get BioShock Movie Made
Irrational Games gaffer Ken Levine has said that he is in no rush to get a BioShock movie made
A cinematic adaptation of the first-person adventure game has been on the cards for a while, but like so many other video game movies has struggled to get off the ground. We got very close to having it get made we had a deal in place and a director...
News BioShock Infinite To Boast Greater Range Of Combat
Ken Levine has told players to expect more varied gameplay in BioShock Infinite
While the original game focused very heavily on close-quarters combat, its sequel will have a much greater range of encounters, keeping players on their toes. "One of the first things we did when we started on BioShock Infinite was to draw a graph with...
News Ken Levine's Itching To Show Off BioShock Infinite's PlayStation Move Support
Moving
With the BioShock franchise loosely associated with the XBOX platform — despite all of the games appearing on PS3 — it looks like Sony is going out of its way to make BioShock Infinite feel more at home on its premier platform One way its achieving this is by heavily promoting the game's PlayStation Move implementation. In a new...
News XCOM Delayed Outside Of Q1 2012
Oh XCOM -- how many times have you been delayed? It feels like everytime the 2K Marin developed first-person shooter is within our grasp, overlord Take Two pushes the carrot a little further away
Last night the publisher announced that it is to push the strategy reboot into the publisher's fiscal year 2013. No real reason was offered, but with Max...
News Special PlayStation Move Peripheral In The Works For BioShock Infinite
When Ken Levine announced PlayStation Move support for BioShock Infinite at this year's E3, it seemed more like a statement of intent than anything else
But in a new PlayStation.com post, Sony has hinted that BioShock Infinite's heavily anticipated Move support might be further along than we anticipated. Outlining all the upcoming PlayStation Move...
News Ken Levine Is One Of The Few Not Pining For PlayStation 4
The father of the critically acclaimed BioShock series, Ken Levine, has said that he's not "aching" for the next round of consoles because he believes the current set of consoles have plenty of juice left in them
You look at Arkham City, Uncharted and Gears of War and youre starting to see that these games dont look old to me. They look very...
News Gearbox Honours Fallen Borderlands Fan With Touching Eulogy
Michael John Mamaril was a huge Borderlands fan
Tragically he died of cancer last month at the unfairly premature age of 22. This prompted Michael's friend Carlo — also a big Borderlands fan — to contact Gearbox Software and ask if they could get the game's lovable robot, Claptrap, to read some kind of eulogy. Touchingly Gearbox did, and has...
News The Latest Darkness II Trailer Hones In On All The Gross Stuff
We don't remember The Darkness being so gross
Sure we remember the portions of the campaign when it went really crazy — the Hellish trenches scene continues to haunt us — but geez, this latest trailer for The Darkness II gives Mortal Kombat a run for its money. We suppose it's appropriate for Hallowe'en, but man, if you're eating right now, we...
News The Voices Behind BioShock Infinite Chat About Their Alter Egos
It's not often that we get to post a new video pertaining to BioShock Infinite
While the hotly anticipated first-person adventure game is firmly on everybody's radar, it's always seemed a long way off. But no more — with many of this year's big Holiday releases out of the picture, Infinite is due its time in the spotlight. And that starts today...
News Levine: BioShock Infinite Is 'My Game'
BioShock creator Ken Levine has no doubts about who wears the trousers at Irrational Games
Chatting with Joystiq, the legendary developer revealed that BioShock Infinite is most definitely his game. This is my game, he said, "I love the fact that we sit down and chat with each other but at the end of the day this things got to be my...
News NBA 2K12 DLC Slamdunks Onto PlayStation Network This Holiday
Man, we always wanted to play cel-shaded basket ball
And now we've got the chance. As part of a new multi-faceted DLC pack for NBA 2K12, the publisher's chucking in a cel-shaded game mode set in the heart of New York's Times Square just for the fun of it. The $10 DLC pack will also include 150 of the NBA's all-time greatest players, new mini-games,...
News Levine: BioShock Vita Won't Be A Port
Arguably one of the biggest names in PlayStation Vita's upcoming catalogue, the announcement of BioShock Vita raised many eyebrows when it was revealed at E3 earlier in the year
But while the game itself is hotly anticipated, details are actually extremely scarce. At E3, Irrational Games gaffer Ken Levine said that the game was merely a nugget of an...
News The Darkness 2 Shines In New Brotherhood Trailer
We'll be honest, we've not been that excited by what we've seen of The Darkness 2 so far
Sure the game's got a neat art-style, but it's a universe we hadn't really considered returning to. But the game's latest trailer — narrated by a complete an utter odd-ball — is actually really cool. Not only does it make the fiction seem totally engaging,...
News Gearbox Is Still Putting Out Duke Nukem Forever DLC
We'd be curious to see the numbers for Duke Nukem Forever's multiplayer component
Are any readers still playing it? Well, if you are (why?) Gearbox has got some new DLC for you. The content includes three new multiplayer modes: Freeze Tag, Hail To The King and Hot Potato. It also includes four new maps parodying various popular first-person...
News Pre-Orders For The Darkness II Upgraded To Limited Edition
If you've already registered interest in The Darkness II or are just about to -- then you're in luck
2K Games has announced that it will be upgrading all pre-orders of the game to a Limited Edition version. This includes a Crazy Abdul darkling outfit and two ability upgrades: Gourmet Hearts and Relic Hunter. You'll also net an illustration by Marc...
News The Latest Darkness Trailer Keeps You Up To Date
Did you miss out on the original The Darkness? Shame on you
The game was actually a surprisingly unique first-person shooter. Still, we understand if you're not willing to set aside the time to play through the game in 2011. And 2K gets that too. Hence it's released a little recap video to get you up to date ahead of its upcoming sequel, The...
News BioShock Infinite TGS 2011 Teaser Trailer
In Japanese too!
As fans of the original BioShock, it’s not hard for us to get excited about any new titbit we can rummage up about the upcoming BioShock Infinite. With each new trailer that Irrational Games releases, it seems that the game just continues to look better and better, and this can be said once again from this new trailer from TGS...
News More Than 40 Staffers Dropped From 2K Czech
Two studios under the 2K Czech banner have been hit by a redundancy initiative, according to information obtained by Develop Online
According to the website more than 40 of the developer's staff has been cut from its studio at Brno, with "less than ten" cut from its Prague studio too. Before the redundancies, 2K Czech had a work force of...
News Uh-Oh, There's More Duke Nukem Incoming
Gearbox Software is in the initial stages of planning a new Duke Nukem title, CEO Randy Pitchford has announced
Pitchford told an audience at PAX — watched by Kotaku — that the studio picked up the Duke Nukem franchise with the intention of making more titles in the series. "And then soon I know that you guys figured out that, when...
News Borderlands 2's Split-Screen Will Allow You To Take A Friend Online
No-one is going to disagree that Borderlands 2 is all about multiplayer, not least developers Gearbox Software
Speaking to Joystiq behind closed doors, Gearbox's Steve Gibson revealed that those playing Borderlands 2's couch co-op mode will be able to take the action online with two other players. There is one stipulation however, according to...
GamesCom 2011 Elizabeth Has A Bit Of A Cry In New BioShock: Infinite Screenshots
Poor Elizabeth
She was thrilled with all the awards BioShock: Infinite won at E3 earlier in the year, but someone at GamesCom had to be a complete meanie didn't they? Horrible Europeans, why did you have to tell her that BioShock: Infinite is still a year away from release? We think we're going to have a little cry too.
GamesCom 2011 Borderlands 2 Teases In New Trailer
Here's your first glimpse of Borderlands 2 ahead of the media blow-out we're expecting later in the week
The trailer focuses on the game's new dual-wielding hero as he shoots the brains out of a variety of fresh foes. The art-style is still great. Expect lots more on Gearbox's RPG-shooter during the course of the week.
News 2K Games To Stream Borderlands 2 Premiere Online
It sounds like GamesCom's going to be livestreams galore -- 2K Games will be joining Sony next week in streaming its GamesCom presentation live on the Internet
2K's show is expected to go heavy on Borderlands 2 content, with many of us given a first taste of Gearbox's RPG-come-shooter at next week's show. The livestream's set to hit the airwaves on...
News Ken Levine Chats BioShock: Infinite On PlayStation 3
It's funny to think that the original BioShock was an afterthought on the PlayStation 3
Released hastily a year after its XBOX 360 counterpart, BioShock as a franchise was closely aligned with Microsoft's platform back in the early days of this generation. But now you can't move without seeing BioShock: Infinite on the front-cover of PlayStation...
