Aliens: Colonial Marines Delayed – New Trailer
Meh, seems that Gearbox has decided to delay their co-op alien blasting shooter until “Fall” 2012. I’m all for this so long as it makes the final product even more awesome. To soften the blow, they’ve released a brand new cinematic trailer. Look see:
Capturing the movie splendidly so far, although I wouldn’t say no to some in game footage.
Get Steam on Your Mobile Device (Beta)
Shamefully copy/pasted from my inbox:
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, andTeam Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the beta release of the Steam application for iOS and Android devices.
With the Steam app, gamers around the world may chat with Steam friends, browse community groups and user profiles, view screenshots and user-generated content for their favorite games, read the latest gaming news, stay up to date on unbeatable Steam sales, and more.
“The Steam app comes from many direct requests from our customers,” said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. ”Seeing which of your friends are online and playing a game, sending quick messages, looking at screenshots for an upcoming game, or catching a sale – these are all features customers have requested. Mobile is changing way people interact, play games and consume media, and the Steam app is part of our commitment to meet customer demands and expand the service functionality of Steam to make it richer and more accessible for everyone.”
Those who wish to join the beta just need to download the Steam app (free of charge) and log in to their Steam account via the mobile app to express interest in the beta. Gamers will be added to the Closed Beta as the service ramps up.
Steam is a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC and Mac games with over 40 million accounts around the world and over 1,800 titles offered.
For more information, please visit http://store.steampowered.com/mobile
Dash onto your mobile and give this puppy a try. It’s free, afterall.
The Darkness 2 Demo now Available on Steam
Yep, 2K has released The Darkness 2 demo on PC via Valve’s lovely Steam platform.
Head on over to the Darkness 2 Store Page and get downloading. Demo is around 30 mins long and gives you a nice taste of what to expect from the full game when it drops on 10th February.
Enjoy and remember…..give in to the Darkness Jackieeeee…
Resident Evil 6 Debut Trailer
Scheduled for release on 20th November this year on X360, PS3 and PC version to follow soon afterwards, RE6 pits Chris Redfield and Leon Kennedy against more hordes of the Umbrella Corporation’s mutated freaks.
I’ll be honest. I saw the beginning bit in the mansion and heard that familiar RE music and got psyched…. then the game went all RE5 on me. Oh well, it’s looking like a decent combination of RE2 (open streets at night) and the arcadey romps of RE4/5. Time will tell.
Max Payne 3 Design and Technology Series: Targeting and Weapons
Rockstar delivers another “vidoc” on the upcoming third person shoot ‘em up, Max Payne 3. In this video the weapons and targeting system are detailed.
Gotta say, i’m loving the art style, details and animations. A shame the game’s delayed until May.
The Darkness 2 PC Specs Revealed
So, PC Gamers finally get a taste of The Darkness, courtesy of 2K. See below to check whether your PC is worthy or not.
Minimum:
OS: Windows XP/Vista/7
Processor: Intel Core 2 @ 2GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Memory: 1.5GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 10GB
Video Card: 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600 / ATI Radeon HD 2600
Sound: DirectX Compatible
Additional: Requires installation of Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable, DirectX and nVidia PhysX version 9.11.1107 (included with download)
Recommended:
OS: Windows XP/Vista/7
Processor: 2.4 GHz Quad Core processor
Memory: 2GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 10GB
Video Card: 512+ MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX
Sound: DirectX Compatible
Additional: Requires installation of Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable, DirectX and nVidia PhysX version 9.11.1107 (included with download)
Not too shabby. Also, check the Steam Store Page for more details on the game, coming 10th February.
Max Payne 3 in Safe Hands with Rockstar?
Seems that Remedy are digging Rockstar’s iteration of Max Payne. A kind of “seal of approval” has been given by Remedy’s Oskari Hakkinen, who seems to be gushing over the game:
“We’ve been blessed with being able to actually see the game and give some feedback. We’ve been meeting with Rockstar and looking at Max 3 – it looks absolutely phenomenal – the nice thing is we’ve been giving our feeling on the game but at the end of the day we don’t have to do any of the heavy lifting, which is nice. Rockstar don’t make bad games, so you already know it’s going to be good. Just like we hope the Remedy brand is a seal of quality, you know that Rockstar’s brand is a seal of quality. It’s been nice to be part of the process, but we don’t want to take any of the limelight. From what we’ve seen it’s going to be absolutely fantastic.”
Source: VG247
Activision Registers Blackops2.com
In news that is going to shock the entire PLANET, Activision are for some insane reason making another Call Of Duty game… Crazy times, its almost like they want more money or something? Anyway, while Activision snapped up the rights to blackops3.com all the way to blackops6.com last year, they have only just decided to register blackops2.com.
So, thoughts? Are they covering their greedy fat arses, or do you think TreyArch (Who are, IMO, the new A-Team of the franchise) is really planning BLOPS2?
Anything has to be better than Modern Warfare 3… Right?
Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/09/report-activision-scoops-up-blackops2-com/
Steam Reaches 5M Concurrent Users in 2011
PC Gaming is dead? Psshh…not according to Valve it ain’t.
5 Mil Simultaneous Users, Seventh Year of 100% Unit Sales Growth
January 6, 2012 – Valve® today announced the 2011 growth data for Steam, a leading platform for PC & Mac games and digital entertainment.
During 2011 the platform grew to offer over 1,800 games to over 40 million accounts. Year-over-year unit sales increased by more than 100% for the seventh straight year, and during the 2011 Holiday Sale Steam’s simultaneous user number eclipsed the 5 million player mark.
Meanwhile Steam doubled the amount of content delivered in 2011 vs. 2010, serving over 780 Petabytes of data to gamers around the world. To meet the increasing demand for games and services on the platform, the Steam infrastructure more than doubled its service capacity and a new content delivery architecture was deployed to improve user download rates.
Over 14.5 mil copies of Steamworks games were registered during the year, a 67% increase over 2010. Steamworks titles shipped during 2011 include The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution , and more. Since the suite of services was released three years ago, Steamworks has shipped in over 400 games.
“Steam and Steamworks continues to evolve to keep up with customer and developer demands for new services and content,” said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. “Support for in-game item trading prompted the exchange of over 19 million items. Support for Free to Play (FTP) games, launched in June, has spurred the launch of 18 FTP titles on Steam, with more coming in 2012. Looking forward, we are preparing for the launch of the Big Picture UI mode, which will allow gamers to experience Steam on large displays and in more rooms of the house.”
Not too shabby at all. Well done Valve. Now, about Half-Life3…..
Syndicate “Deep Dive” Co-op Trailer Released
Hmmm…Syndicate. Sparks memories of my Amiga days with Bullfrog Software’s isometric-esque shooter… which this reboot seems to have zero in common with, ‘cept you shoot things…with people…who are in Syndicates.
Anyway, I expect it to be pretty awesome seeing as Starbreeze are developing the game (I still play Riddick to this day).
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