My rifle’s chunky, deep report chops through the red bar over a stray defender’s head as he rushes to disarm my explosive charge. The lanky engineer should have brought friends, because on Brink’s floating city, one-man-armies may as well slurp up a bowl of bullet soup and call it a …
Read More »Black Ops Escalation DLC: Launch day video brings zombies, electrified septuagenarians, annoying voice-overs
So, Call of Duty: Black Ops’ Escalation DLC is apparently out today on Xbox Live (still no sign of it in the UK Marketplace on our machine, but we’ll continue to believe them for now), and yikes is this new five minute video quite the head-turner. Even to me, who …
Read More »Supertrailer: 04/24 – 04/30
Oursong inspiration comes from a trailer that just barely made in time for consideration. Oh, you haven’t seen theCall of Duty: Black Ops Escalation DLC trailer (opens in new tab)?! Well, obviously we love that Rolling Stones jam, but to distinguish ourselves, we chosethis remix by DJ Earworm (opens in …
Read More »Ex-Bizarre Creations bosses finally admit it: Activisions corporate meddling was a problem
It’s never been official, but we’ve always sort of known it. Activision’s interferance and committee thinking hurt the now sadly defunct Bizarre Creations in the run up to the much-loved studio’s closure.Shut down by the house of CoD following the poor performance of its last two titles, Blur and James …
Read More »Valves TF2 Japan relief promotion raises $300K (and counting…)
Valve has posted a heartfelt thank you to its Team Fortress 2 community for helping it studio raise in excess of $300K in support of relief efforts in Japan through the purchases of TF2 special edition Japanese headwear. Last week, Valve released three limited-run Japanese headgear items in its Mann …
Read More »Duke Nukem Forever delayed until June, we call shenanigans
Gearbox Software has delayed Duke Nukem Forever by over a month. Typical, right? A little too typical, we suspect. After all, delaying the most delayed game in all of gamedom is almost too much of a coincidence. And after watching the studio’s tongue-in-cheek delay announcement video (complete with its own …
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