The Humble Indie Bundle is now offering the fourth – and obviously last bundle of 2011 – that includes five new cross-platform, DRM-free games. Therefore, this fourth bundlie includes Super Meat Boy, Shank, Jamestown, Bit.Trip Runner, and NightSky. Those who pay more than the average price will also get two massive, well-loved indie favorites: Cave Story+ and Gratuitous Space Battles. Continue reading The Humble Indie Bundle #4 is now available→
Kalypso Media today announced a publishing deal with developer Flying Wild Hog to release an expanded and exclusive retail edition of their cyberpunk First-Person Shooter, Hard Reset, to UK retail in March 2012. Hard Reset: Extended Edition for Windows PC will drop players into a dark dystopian cyberpunk world where they’ll enjoy frantic FPS styled gameplay combined with upgradable weapons, insane boss fights, physics-based combat and an intense new storyline. Continue reading Hard Reset: Extended Edition Announced and coming to retail in 2012→
Today, Ubisoft announced the debut of The Ancestors Character Pack, an all-new downloadable content for Assassin’s Creed Revelations for Xbox 360 and for PCs. This pack will be available on the PlayStation Network for PlayStation3 from tomorrow, December 14th. The Ancestors Character Pack is available for the suggested downloadable price of 320 Microsoft Points on Xbox LIVE and £3.19 for PCs and on PlayStation Network. Continue reading Assassin’s Creed: Revelations – Ancestors Character Pack is now available to the PC→
Modder Mancer released a new texture pack for Skyrim. This pack replaces most of the textures in an attempt to get a better looking environment. As the title suggests, Mancer changed the game’s normal maps that are applied to most textures, thus giving them a “surface feeling”. What’s really important here is that Mancer’s pack does not replace those normal maps with others of higher resolution. The sizes of these new normal maps are the same, meaning that there won’t be any performance hit at all while using it. Continue reading The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Awesome Texture Normal Maps Pack by Mancer→
PC gamers, meet Void; a freeware indie first person game that is powered by the Source engine. The game was developed by Zoel Gan, Ravindran Mark, Tan Chee Ming, Chan Sin Huan, Leau Tat Sin and Zou Xinru and as the title suggests, it involves time travelling. VOID features a complex two worlds design and construction that allow seamless interaction between player and world when the player calls for it. Continue reading PC gamers, meet Void; A first person time travelling game that is powered by the Source Engine→
505 Games released some brand new screenshots for their upcoming sniper game, Sniper Elite V2. In addition, the company released a new trailer and a fact sheet for it. According to its press release, players are forced to use skill, patience and cunning – with an emphasis on learning to handle the anticipation and pressure of the hunt – to achieve their missions as they find themselves facing life-altering choices. Continue reading Sniper Elite V2 – New Screenshots, Trailer & Details Revealed→
The expansion pack Back to Karkand is out now on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC! This launch trailer features gameplay footage from the legendary Battlefield map Sharqi Peninsula, now reimagined and powered by the Frostbite 2 engine. Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand is yours at no extra charge if you own a copy of Battlefield 3: Limited Edition, or available now for $14.99/1200 Microsoft Points Continue reading Battlefield 3 – Back to Karkand Launch PC & X360 Trailer; Sharqi Peninsula Gameplay Trailer→
Volition has released a new update for their action and chaotic third person sandbox shooter game, Saints Row: The Third. This new update will be auto-downloaded next time you start the Steam client and comes with some specific Eyefinity correction and fixes, general sound optimizations and other, various fixes. Unfortunately, the release notes do not include any fix about the awful SLI scaling in DX9. Here is hoping now that Nvidia will fix it. You can view the entire changelog after the jump. Continue reading Saints Row: The Third – New Update Released→
Stephen Reid, Community Manager of SWTOR, revealed some new information about Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Early Access. According to Stephen, the Early Game Access will officially start at 4AM PST / 6AM CST / 7AM EST / 12PM GMT / 1PM CET today. Emails will be sent around then and no, not everyone will get in and play. In addition, the Forums will be back up for all who have redeemed a pre-order code just before 7AM EST (AKA, Early Game Access start) and the servers that will be up today will NOT be the final ones as the company will be adding more servers during the Early Game Access. Continue reading SWTOR Early Access Dev Update; “Not *everyone* will get in tomorrow”→
This is huge, this is really huge. According to Steam’s registry, Alan Wake is coming to the PC. Although we don’t have any specific release date, we do know that those registry entries are as valid as they can get. We’ve also captured a screen from this registry entry that can be viewed bellow. In case you were unaware of, Sonic Generations’ PC version was leaked in the same way, so there should be no doubt about the validity of the source. Steam’s registry does not lie, that’s a fact. Bottom line is that Alan Wake is coming to the PC, it’s semi-official now. Continue reading Steam’s registry indicates that Alan Wake is coming to the PC→
