Kim Swift, one of the key designers behind the development of Portal, has left Valve Software to join the ranks of Dark Void developer Airtight Games as project lead of yet to announced efforts. A DigiPen graduate, she was hired by Valve for her work on environmental puzzler Narbacular Drop. Kim cited personal reasons as the motivating factor behind her […]

EA’s went live with the official site for its modern day Medal of Honor reboot, placing the multi-platform war shooter snug inside a fall 2010 release window. In development by DICE, this self-titled installment takes the series outside the WWII pacific theater for the first time, taking cues from the success of Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty franchise.

Take-Two is now heralding Gearbox Software’s open-world RPG Borderlands as a “key franchise,” according to company CEO Ben Feder and chairman Strauss Zelnick. What’s the significant of this statement? Well, it likely means we can expect additional DLC bits down the road and possibly a full-on sequel. Given the game’s nature, it should be obvious that it was ripe for […]

You really have got to love these Steam sales. As per usual Steam is offering a weekend deal but to make it a bit more special for the Thanksgiving weekend, they’re offering a “5-day long, 1-day only” sale. What this means is that every day over the Thanksgiving weekend Steam will be offering a large number of games for a […]

Boycotts be damned, the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 seems to be performing exceptional at retail, having outsold its predecessor in terms of first week sales. This is according to Infinity Ward community manager Robert “402” Bowling, who wrote the following in a forum post on the developer’s official site:

Publisher Square Enix today confirmed that Supreme Commander 2 will hit PC on March 2, with an Xbox 360 release following shortly after on March 16. Developed by series mainstay Gas Powered Games, the futuristic RTS builds on the success of its predecessor with large scale battles and rich customization features. Set 25 years after the Infinite War, players find […]

As per usual, Valve are offering a special deal this weekend on Steam and this week it’s the turn of both Crysis and Crysis Warhead with a 50% saving on both titles to bring the price down to just £9.99 for each game. If you haven’t already got a copy of Crysis or Crysis Warhead, now would be a good […]

EA today announced that the concluding chapter to the Tiberian saga, entitled Commander & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, will hit store shelves March 16 in the US, with a European release following on the 19th. Exclusive to PC, those who pre-order the game at participating retailers will receive access to the upcoming beta test, as well as a copy of […]

With an official count of 1.23 million units sold in the UK on launch day, Modern Warfare 2 is well on track to become this year’s biggest entertainment launch, just as publisher Activision said it would. How is the proper sequel to 2007’s Infinity Ward-developed Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare stacking up in terms of worldwide sales? While exact […]

The space marine pictured above doesn’t look too happy, and neither are we. While the release date of the StarCraft II beta was originally up in air, producer Chris Sigaty has confirmed that it won’t hit until 2010, effectively crushing the hopes and dreams of those wanting to play by this year’s end. Betcha weren’t expecting that, eh? The first […]

Valve has been quite vocal regarding its disdain for the PS3, but it seems a complex CELL architecture is not the only factor that’s driving the famed Half Life developer to keep its distance from Sony. Speaking in a recent interview with CVG, Valve project manager Chet Faliszek took a sharp hit at Sony’s online community, proclaiming that Xbox Live […]

Presumably to coincide with the Mass Effect 2 Collector’s Edition unveil, BioWare has slashed the price of its sci-fi epic Mass Effect down to $9.99 on Steam, a 50 percent reduction. If you want to prepare yourself for the imminent sequel, doing it on the PC is a swell idea, provided you meet the system requirements of course. The sale […]

Developer BioWare today officially revealed the collector’s edition package for Mass Effect 2 in all its shimmering glory. Enclosed in a premium tin case brandishing the iconic N7 logo, it includes a 48-page hardcover artbook, issue #1 of the Mass Effect Redemption comic, a bonus “making of” DVD containing behind-the-scenes features, and of course the game itself. To top it […]

As unfortunate as it may be, it’s never a Valve release without delays. While already available on Xbox 360, the PC version of the Left 4 Dead 2 demo has been re-scheduled to hit Steam tomorrow, a day later than originally planned. “The Left 4 Dead 2 Xbox 360 Demo is now available for those who pre-ordered and obtained early […]

If the lack of dedicated server support on the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 isn’t dissuading you from buying, then you might be interested in knowing the system requirements, which retailer GameStop revealed today on its website. The requirements are very modest, as expected as MW2 is running on what is essentially a tweaked CoD 4 engine. Even those […]

The long-winded tale of Prison Break may be over and done with on network television, but developer Deep Silver is still hard at work on a game adaptation dubbed Prison Break: The Conspiracy. Story-wise, it runs in parallel to the events of the original show and from the latest screenshots, actually looks quite faithful to the real thing. Consider us […]

Steam never disappoints in giving us a reason to bring out our wallets. Separate from the usual weekend dealio, Valve’s digital distribution service is running a short promotion on the PC version of Assassin’s Creed, slashing the price down from $20 to only $5 bones. Dubbed as a midweek madness special, the sale will run from now until Thursday. If […]

While it was previously known that a playable demo of Left 4 Dead 2 would be made available on October 27 to those who pre-order, Valve today announced that availability will extend to those who did not partake in the pre-purchase program on November 3. On the 360 side, those without an Xbox Live Gold account will gain access to […]

You’ve read what it does, now see CryEngine 3 in action, Crytek’s flagship all-in-one multiplatform middleware suite. Specifically, the video highlights what is possible on the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 through several tech demo segments. In a word, it’s impressive. Crytek has managed to pull off the visual equivalent of running high settings in Crysis on a console, which […]

German-based developer Crytek announced today that its all-in-one multiplatform development solution, known as CryEngine 3, has reached its final stages of development and is now available to licensees. Not only is CryEngine 3 being offered as a middleware solution for the current crop of consoles, but Crytek says scalable computation logic has been built in so as to gradually scale […]