EA finally released some media for the Alice sequel Alice: Madeness Returns. It looks like the real deal, the same atmosphere and style with a modern graphical upgrade. The teaser trailer is short, but shows us that they won’t be holding back on the weird for the sake of grabbing the mainstream audience, This is a true sequel to a flawed classic of PC gaming.
EA today announced their latest Maxis game Darkspore. Not a very creative name for a Spore spinoff, though I suppose it’s better than Spore: Dark.
Darkspore will be a Diablo style game with the twist on the formula being that you upgrade using parts created with an updated version of the Spore creature creator.
Darkspore is planned for an early 2011 release for the PC.
Electronic Arts publishers of major video game franchises such as Madden NFL 10, and Mirror’s Edge, have revealed new downloadable content for their free to play online murder simulator Battlefield Heroes, that will allow you to kill Michael Jackson like characters.
Originally they were going to charge for these Michael Jackson costumes, but due to a misinterpretation of customer outrage they have decided to simply promote the game by giving them away for free.
Steam is having a sale on one Ubisoft game every day of the week for one week. Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed for $10. A steal for one of the best selling shit games of this generation. Here’s a list of other Ubisoft titles available on Steam, perhaps tomorrow we’ll be lucky enough to get Grey’s Anatomy: The Video Game for 50% off or CSI: NY® – The Game for only $20. Only one downside to this amazing event, Steam doesn’t carry this shit:
Rockstar has made it official, Rockstar Vancouver is working on Max Payne 3 for the HD consoles and PC. To be released winter of this year, they say they’re moving the story of Max Payne in a “new direction”. Sam Houser of Rockstar said “This is Max as we’ve never seen him before, a few years older, more world-weary and cynical than ever. We experience the downward spiral of his life after the events of Max Payne 2 and witness his last chance for salvation.”
The Duke Nukem Forever teaser trailer has just gone up and you can watch it here if you can get the site to load.
Update: Youtube version is up:
Variety is reporting…
Twentieth Century Fox has Mark Wahlberg in the crosshairs for “Max Payne,” a live-action adaptation of the bestselling Rockstar videogame that will begin early next year. John Moore will direct.Wahlberg is negotiating to play the titular cop who is haunted by the tragic loss of his family and has little regard for rules as he investigates a series of mysterious murders. He finds himself up against an adversary bent on destroying Max and the streets he protects.
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Turok, the epic, sci-fi first person shooter, will be released in spring 2008 for Windows PC, Touchstone announced today. Touchstone previously announced that Turok, one of next year’s most anticipated games, will be available for the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. Developed by Propaganda Games, Turok for consoles will be available at retail stores on February 8th, 2008.
With all the Nintendo Megatons dropping tonight don’t forget you can now access all of The Orange Box on Steam. Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal hopefully you preloaded.
