Project would require fan support, rights from EA
American McGee Wednesday asked fans if they'd support a third Alice game, provided he's able to get the rights from EA.
Sometimes player choice is a bad thing.
WARNING: Many spoilers for Far Cry 3 are present throughout this article and are not preceded by any further warnings. The author believes you will still get plenty out of the story and the rest of the game even by reading these spoilers, but that decision is left to you.
True believers, I present an MMO worth your consideration.
I love super heroes and I love video games so naturally whenever there is a combination of the two, I get excited. Though the results aren’t always favorable, there are a host of games that do our heroes justice. MMOs on the other hand have been a different beast, mainly hitting their stride a few years back with City of Heroes. Last year, DC took their chances in the MMO space with DC Universe Online, which has had decent success. While that game operates much like you would expect, Marvel has enlisted Gazillion Entertainment to helm their super powered MMO. Headed by Diablo creator David Brevick, Marvel Heroes combines elements from dungeon crawlers like Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and the Diablo franchise to create something that has the potential to be great.
Kinect-powered destruction... free!
To celebrate 10 years of Xbox Live, Microsoft is offering members a freebie of their recently released title, Wreckateer. Using Kinect, Wreckateer encourages players to use their arsenal of special canon balls to destroy a set of medieval structures housing enemy goblins.
Happy happy joy joy, happy happy joy joy...
One of the things to come out of the last 6 years or so that I’ve found most interesting has been the rise of the free to play model. It wasn’t too long ago that free to play was synonymous with amateur game design and simple flash games. Now, even the biggest companies in the world are creating games that don’t ask for money up front, and the quality of those games has increased many times over. Console manufacturers have been slow to adopt this business model, so I was very interested in playing Happy Wars for XBLA, the first free to play game for the 360. While I don’t think that Happy Wars is a great example of the free to play structure, it stands as a unique and fun experience for Xbox Live Gold subscribers.
Four co-op missions coming soon.
2k Games announced via a press release that Spec Ops: The Line will have free downloadable co-op missions shortly after the June 26, 2012 release of the game. The content will be available to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. A demo of the game is currently available on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and the game is playable on the E3 2012 show floor.
Just don't expect it to work on a new computer.
If you like free games, there’s a pretty easy way to score Midnight Club II on your Steam account through the weekend. Simply join the Rockstar Steam community before 10 AM PDT on May 15 and a free, non-giftable copy of the game will arrive in your account sometime before May 29. Just be aware that this version of the game won’t run on Windows 7 or Vista. This probably limits the audience for the game considerably, but for those still rocking Windows XP on an aging rig might finally have a new game to boot up on their systems.
Entitled Cold Mercury, little is known about this new title.
Starbreeze Studios, the developers behind the first Darkness game, Chronicles of Riddick and the recent Syndicate reboot, is going out of their comfort zone and developing a new free-to-play title called Cold Mercury. No details have been revealed yet but CEO Mikael Nermark reassures fans that the studio will still make triple A titles.
Club Nintendo members among those eligible for free cards.
Pit makes his long awaited return to the spotlight later this month in Kid Icarus: Uprising. In an effort to showcase his versatility, not only is he making the move from platformer to frenetic shooter, but the latest game also boasts an extensive augmented reality suite that works off of collectable AR cards. While each new purchase of Uprising will include six random cards, there are plenty of other ways to get your hands on a few that won’t cost you a dime.
