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While Australia won’t be partaking in Starbreeze’s reboot of the Syndicate universe – a violence-filled first-person twist on what had traditionally been a strategic third-person strategy experience – our New Zealand cousins/rivals/overlords (cross out as necessary) are free to revel in the corporate wrath via Syndicate’s demo, freshly available on …

Electronic Arts’ upcoming Syndicate won’t include an Online Pass despite containing substantial online multiplayer content, the game’s developer has revealed. Speaking to Eurogamer, executive producer Jeff Gamon explained that the title’s multiplayer mode was given “equal billing” with the single-player campaign, rather than restricted access: “We want as little resistance …

Game publishers frequently do things that seem to make very little sense. The most currently fashionable thing that makes very little sense seems to be the FPS reboot. Take an old, much-loved video game franchise, whip up fanboy hysteria by announcing a new entry, then reveal an only-partially-related-at-best FPS, containing …

“What you do isn’t elegant. It’s quite a violation to go inside someone’s head and basically fry their brain.” When EA announced Syndicate as a first person shooter, fans of the original strategy games were understandably upset. But as we pointed out in our recent hands-on preview, and as Executive …