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Flying Cookie Quest

admin — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:54:11 +0000

Categories: Action

Flying Cookie Quest puts you in control of Rocket Panda in the land of Cookies. Flying sharks, hang-gliding sheep and more. Can you put Biscuit Head back in his jar? Use the mouse button!

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Far Cry 3 Map Editor Video

admin — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:49:59 +0000

Categories: PC, PS3, Xbox-360

Tags: Far Cry 3, Ubisoft Entertainment Ltd, video

This is a video showing the Far Cry 3 map editor. In Far Cry 3 players take control of Jason Brody, a man stranded on a strange tropical island. A crazy world of lawlessness that the player will have to use all their skills to survive.

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Dead Island Riptide Screens

admin — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:10:37 +0000

Categories: PC, PS3, Xbox-360

Tags: Dead Good Media Ltd, Dead Island Riptide, Deep Silver, Screens

We have added some Dead Island Riptide screens The game sees John Morgan and a bunch of survivors from a shipwreck fighting their way through a city located on the the form island paradise of Palanai. The survivors (including new recruit John Morgan) finds themselves shipwrecked and stranded on this island in the Banoi archipelago. [...]

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Ratchet & Clank HD Collection leaked by Amazon

Steven Mostyn — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:23:14 +0000

Categories: PlayStation Vita, PS3, PSP

Tags: Crack in Time, HD Collection, Insomniac Games, Ratcher & Clank, Up Your Arsenal

If you’ve never enjoyed the humorous action ingrained through the popular Ratchet & Clank series, we here at The Gaming Herald would suggest you resist temptation for just a smidge longer. Specifically, a product page posted briefly over on Amazon France suggests Sony Computer Entertainment is preparing to launch the Ratchet & Clank HD Collection [...]

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Assassin’s Creed III hero is Native American?

Steven Mostyn — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:42:03 +0000

Categories: PC, PS3, Xbox-360

Tags: Altaire, American Revolution, Assassins Creed III, Ezio Auditore, Native American, Ubisoft

Attention Assassin’s Creed fans: The third full episode of Ubisoft’s acclaimed action adventure is set to be officially unveiled this March 5… and it will apparently be set during the American Revolution. That’s according to videogame magazine Game Informer, which claims Ubisoft has not only confirmed Assassin’s Creed III will take the action from old [...]

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Rumor points to SimCity 5 reveal at GDC

Steven Mostyn — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:32:17 +0000

Categories: PC, PS3, Xbox-360

Tags: EA Maxis, Electronic Arts, Erik Reynolds, Game Developers Conference, GDC, Maxis, SimCity 5

Here’s one for fans of the longstanding SimCity franchise: German games magazine Gamestar is currently reporting that SimCity 5 will be formally unveiled during this month’s Game Developers Conference (GDC). The possibility of Electronic Arts (EA) using the GDC platform to officially debut the latest SimCity entrant is supported by Twitter posts made by the [...]

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Blizzard announces 600 job losses

Steven Mostyn — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:05:37 +0000

Categories: PC, PS3, Xbox-360

Tags: Activision Blizzard, Customer Service, Job Losses, Mike Morhaime, World of Warcraft

We all know that World of WarCraft is an unparalleled PC success that’s all-but untouchable in the realm of massively multiplayer role-playing games (MMORPG). Or is it? More pointedly, software publisher Activision Blizzard has today announced that 600 jobs are to be culled from its Blizzard Entertainment division, which, as you might guess, operates World [...]

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Mass Effect 3 promo has bumpy landing

Steven Mostyn — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:03:50 +0000

Categories: PC, PS3, Xbox-360

Tags: BioWare, EA, Electronic Arts, Mass Effect 3

The Mass Effect 3 ‘Space Edition’ promotion launched by Electronic Arts (EA) may have succeeded from a marketing perspective, but it hasn’t exactly been a resounding success for expectant gamers. Specifically, while weather balloons carrying pre-release copies of the eagerly awaited sci-fi epic have been released over major cities around the world, technical issues and [...]

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Bethesda: DOOM 4 has NOT been cancelled

Steven Mostyn — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:59:19 +0000

Categories: PC, PS3, Xbox-360

Tags: Bethesda Softworks, DOOM 4, id Software, Pete Hines, Rage

Game publisher Bethesda Softworks has this week moved quickly to counter rumors suggesting that its id-developed shooter DOOM 4 has been cancelled. “DOOM 4 isn’t cancelled,” said Bethesda boss Pete Hines via a Twitter post. “When we’re ready to talk about it and show it off, we’ll let everyone know.” Initial rumors regarding the game’s [...]

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Lionhead countdown clock promises big unveiling

Steven Mostyn — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:20:47 +0000

Categories: Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, PC, PlayStation Vita, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox-360

Tags: Countdown Clock, Game Developers Conference, GDC, Lionhead, Peter Molyneux

Although Lionhead supposedly only has Kinect-based title ‘Fable Journey’ in the works for 2012, the sudden appearance of an intriguing countdown clock on its studio site suggests the developer may be preparing to reveal something else entirely. The clock in question will tick down to zero on the launch day of this year’s Game Developers [...]

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