Category Archives: PC

After a negative reaction from players, Square Enix is reassessing plans to shutter eight of Final Fantasy XIV’s servers, reducing the number of available worlds to ten.

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Max Payne has an impressive list of notable features, but the good old dual wield is a favourite. See some glorious images of it in action through the break.

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GameSpy has gone live with the first part of a 101 Free Games of 2012 feature. RPG, adventure and strategy games are offered in this initial round up, with puzzle and arcade due tomorrow; sidescrollers, platformers, versus battlers and WTF will follow. It’s also got links to previous year’s offerings, courtesy of recently-adopted sister site 1UP, resulting in a whopping number of freebies. Go forth and enjoy; browser, Mac, PC and even Linux titles are yours for the taking. Your productivity is sure to suffer as a result, but in the best way.

DICE has confirmed it’s working on a bevy of fixes for Battlefield 3 via a post on the official Battlefield Blog.

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BioWare has kicked off the run-in to Mass Effect 3′s release with the early access launch of the RPG’s demo. Johnny Cullen takes a look at the taster’s single-play portion ahead of an open launch tomorrow.

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2K has braved a release for a sequel to one of the most underrated gems of this generation. As Johnny Cullen discovered, The Darkness II is more than worthy of the risk.

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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is the new UK number one.

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The makers of Grand Theft Auto IV PC mod iCEnhancer, which substantially improves the look of the game, have gone up to V2.00 in their latest update. There’s a video of it running below the break, via Kotaku. As it says at the end, GTA IV’s not dead yet.

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BioWare executive producer Casey Hudson has confirmed on Twitter that Mass Effect 3 has gone Gold ahead of its March release.

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Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg told DICE attendees the birthing of social service Call of Duty: Elite was problematic for everyone involved.

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Almost Human is offering you the chance to check out the latest build of first-person dungeon crawler Legend of Grimrock

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Ironclad Games has launched a new teaser website, counting down to what is hopefully the reveal of its next title.

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Fear not, Internet denizens; Steam’s brief failure was nothing sinister.

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Indie developer Instant Kingdom has released a demo complete with editor tools for its RPG Driftmoon. The game is described by the developers as “a deep, captivating story, and the gameplay focuses heavily on adventure and exploration; spiced up with surprising twists, a nice touch of humour, and a world filled with detail.” It is currently in a pre-order phase which will provide the player with 5 to 10 hours of game time, with the rest of the game available in the next few months. Download it through the link, and checkout a gameplay trailer below. Thanks, Indiegames.

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Bioware has posted its first weekly developer Q&A over on the SWTOR forums, and in it, the firm addresses questions regarding upcoming content, and fixes currently in the works. According to the post, patch 1.2 will bring about the first rewards to the Legacy System, and will allow players to combine races and classes. More enhancements for the system are planned for future updates. Also, the next major addition to the MMO will add the Hue to Chest feature, social armor for Medium and Heavy wearers, guild banks, and a new same-faction Warzone. Read the Q&A for yourself through appropriate the link. Thanks, Massively.

Seatribe’s creative director, Björn Johannessen, has said the team decided to add permadeath to its upcoming free-to-play MMORPG, Salem, because for one, it “enforces a subtle form of roleplaying.”

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Siliconera has dug up a Korea’s Game Rating Board rating for Magic: The Gathering – Duels Of The Planeswalkers 2013, which was filed by Microsoft Korea. Wizards of the Coast hasn’t officially announced a sequel to Duels Of The Planeswalkers 2012, but still, the information is there for your consideration anyway. The site points out that while the listing may have been filed under Microsoft, it doesn’t mean it will be an Xbox 360 exclusive. Last year’s version was also released on PS3 and Steam alongside the 360 version.

A YouTube user named NinjaDancer has uploaded a couple videos for the Mass Effect 3 demo, which he got early access to. The demo is posted in two parts, and contains the first two missions in the game. The user apologizes for his aiming at one point, but no matter, as you get the general idea of what the demo will consist of when it drops next Tuesday on PSN and Xbox 360. Thanks, AGB. [image]

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The ESRB has rated Spec Ops: The Line M for Mature in the US, which is not really shocking, unless a shooter about Spec Ops missions wasn’t a large enough clue for some of us out there. However, apparently, you’ll be able to do more than just shoot people in the face in this game, thus the reason it has “The Line” as a subtitle.

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Diablo 3 as you know, will contain difficulty modes such as Normal, Nightmare, Hell and the newly added Inferno mode. To give you an idea of the difficulty these modes produce for the player, Blizzard has released a new video explaining the matter, but sadly never once mention just why they feel the need to be so sadistic. We’re joking, obviously. Some people like the challenge. Diablo 3 is slated for a Q2 release this year, which would put it on store shelves sometime between the end of March and May. Thanks, GameFront.

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