Daily Archive: August 18, 2012
Firaxis, better known for their work in the Civilization series, has undertaken the challenge to bring back the PC classic XCOM into the new generation of gaming. We were able to play the first few missions of the game, plus the tutorial, which gave us just below an hour of game time.
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NetherRealm Studios, developers of Mortal Kombat, has teamed up with DC to create the ultimate comic-based fighting game, and it’s definitely no Mortal Kombat vs. DC.
The two player demo only allowed us access to two stages, The Batcave and The Fortress of Solitude. They were great environments filled with a lot of detail …
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Article by FTG Contributor Forrest Larson.
Hidden Path Entertainment, the developers behind Defense Grid: The Awakening and the hotly anticipated Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, have set up a Kickstarter campaign to help fund their newest title, Defense Grid 2, and they need your help. Or, at least they should be thanking you for …
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Our last care package, the joint one with Epic Games, codenamed CRIMSON OMEN took entirely too long to get pushed down range. Six weeks from announcement to my going to the post office? Unacceptable! Okay, maybe I’m doing this in my spare time and between being sick and having to visit the inlaws last …
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It’s been a long time coming, but Activision finally pulled back the curtain on the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified for the PS Vita, showing off a trailer at the very end of Sony’s Gamescom conference on Tuesday. The trailer, embedded above, showed off the game in action, while …
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No website anywhere on this wonderful information superhighway loves firmware updates the way that Front Towards Gamer does, so imagine our excitement when Sony finally dated one of the most hotly-anticipated updates yet at their Gamescom conference on Tuesday! That’s right, PS Vita firmware v1.80, which pushes the Vita to its technical threshold by …
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Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale is a game which has been turning a lot of heads recently. With it’s premise similar to Nintendo’s Super Smash Brothers, but with clever use of Sony characters and a few gameplay twists, it’s good enough to stand on its own. The demo available gave you the option to use the classic PS3 …
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Gamescom saw everything under the Sony umbrella get a little bit of attention here and there. The PS Move was no different, as they got a new game, Until Dawn. The game is essentially a slasher film following the exploits of a group of teenagers who go up to visit a cabin in the …
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