Gotham City Impostors Review (XBLA)

Gotham City Impostors is a rare breed. Coming along mere months after the critically acclaimed and long anticipated Batman: Arkham City, Impostors offers you a skewed look at the Batman universe through a pair of mentally imbalanced eyes. Playing as either a member of the ‘Bats’ or the ‘Jokerz,’ two street gangs taking after their favorite costumed celebrity, you will find yourself running and gunning through the streets of Gotham in an inspired and satirical FPS.
“His is the path of righteousness, ours is the path of cordite and home-brew explosives.”
The game is spawned from a four issue story from Detective Comics (#867-870) wherein the Joker drugs Gotham City, causing mass hallucinations leading to Batman inspired…

New Details About Mechwarrior Tactics

After signing up with the game’s official, yet cryptic, website we have received some new info about the upcoming Mechwarrior Tactics. This just in from Infinite Games Publishing:
It’s the year 3025. Hostile enemy lances are closing in all around you. As Commander of an elite mercenary company, it’s up to you to ensure swift victory and make your enemies pay dearly. Your Mech Bay hosts a vast array of custom Mechs, each configured for a specific combat role. Choose wisely which Mechs to take into battle: your future as the leader of your lances depends on it.
MechWarrior Tactics™ is a brand-new MechWarrior game set in the BattleTech® universe and includes everything you love about MechWarrior….

Kung Fu Strike: The Warrior’s Rise Gameplay Trailer

7Sixty has released a new gameplay trailer for the upcoming Kung Fu Strike: The Warrior’s Rise!
Gameplay Trailer

The Secret World Gets Release Date

Durham, USA – February 21st, 2012 –Independent developer and publisher of online games, Funcom, today announced that the highly anticipated massively multiplayer online role-playing game ‘The Secret World’ will launch on June 19th, 2012. Originally slated for an April launch, Funcom has decided to invest more development time into the title in order to apply even more polish before launch.
Feedback from hands-on press events and beta testing has proven very positive, and Funcom intends to spend the additional development time focusing on polish and tweaking to maximize the potential of the game. The beta feedback so far is showing very positive reactions to core game features such as the role-playing systems, combat, missions, dungeons, story and immersion….

The Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition Teaser Trailer 1

CD Projekt RED has released a brand new teaser trailer offering another look at their hotly-anticipated RPG, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, coming soon to the Xbox 360 console and PC. The game launches April 17 worldwide for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and for PC.
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ROCCAT Asking if PC Gaming is Dead, Promising Announcement

Hamburg, February 21, 2012 – With the headline “Isn’t PC Gaming Dead?” emblazoned across the screen, German gaming peripherals manufacturer, ROCCAT Studios, today unveiled a website where they ask for fans’ opinions on the state of PC gaming.
“With all the talk lately,” the message reads, “you’d think PC gaming was over. Some say PC gaming isn’t dead, but think they need to breathe new life into it now and then with yet another ‘groundbreaking’ reinvention. But is all that necessary? Does PC gaming need a doctor? Does it need an undertaker?”
Says René Korte, ROCCAT™ Founder and CEO: “We hope to get gamers thinking about where things are headed for PC gaming. Certain gaming peripheral companies…

Unreal Engine 3 Licensed for Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock

CARY, N.C. (February 21, 2012) – Epic Games announces that BBC Worldwide and Supermassive Games have licensed the award-winning Unreal Engine 3 technology to power the time-bending action game, “Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock.” Crafted by acclaimed developer Supermassive Games and based upon the BBC’s heralded franchise that has entertained audiences for nearly 50 years, “Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock” will be the first PlayStation®Vita game to utilize the cutting-edge Unreal Engine toolset, which also fuels the PlayStation®3 and PC versions of the game.
An exciting new trailer for “Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock” gives players a taste of what they’ll experience upon the game’s release next month as the Time Lord attempts to save the…

Wargaming.net Releases World of Tanks iOS App

21st February 2012 — Wargaming.net, the award-winning publisher and developer, is glad to announce that the first mobile application is now available for their world-famous armored action MMO World of Tanks.
World of Tanks Assistant is a new application that provides instant access to the latest and most important information on World of Tanks. The Assistant gives access to detailed data on players’ combat statistics and their positions in the Global Rating, displays current progress, shows players’ in-game balance, provides the latest news from the official World of Tanks website, and allows to share triumphs with friends via email and social networks.
The app is designed for iOS devices and is available free of charge at the…

Shank 2 – A Review (XBLA)

Developer Klei has brought its bloody 2D brawler back to Xbox Live Arcade with the release of Shank 2.  Sequels are always in a funny position with me, be it video game sequels or movie sequels.  You always hope that the sequel is better then the original, but more often then not, the sequel just let’s you down and can’t deliver on what the original brought.  Will Shank 2 deliver a better experience then the original Shank, or are we looking at just another effort to get your money out of your wallet?  Let’s find out with my full review of Shank 2 for the Xbox 360.
Story:
Ok, let’s get this out of the way first;…

Megadeth Coming to Rock Band Music Store

Harmonix has announced that Megadeth will be bringing three tracks to the Rock Band Music Store on February 21, 2012.
Available on Xbox 360, Wii™and PlayStation®3 system (February 21st, 2012):

Megadeth – “Symphony of Destruction” X
Megadeth – “À Tout le Monde”
Megadeth – “Public Enemy No. 1″

(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation®3 system February 22nd)
Tracks marked with “X” will offer Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions for $0.99 per song.
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$5.49, £2.49 UK, €3.99 EU (440 Microsoft Points, 550 Wii Points™) for “Megadeth Pack 01”
$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points, 200 Wii Points™) per song
$0.99 USD (100 Wii Points™/80 Microsoft Points), £0.59 UK, €0.79 EU per song for eligible Pro Guitar/Pro Bass…

Crusader Kings II Piracy Trailer

Paradox Interactive has released a new trailer for its strategy title, Crusader Kings II.
Piracy

WSGF Reveals 2011 Award Recipients

HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Widescreen Gaming Forum (WSGF) announces the recipients of its 2011 Awards.
Field of Vision – These awards recognize developers for implementing proper support of widescreen, Eyefinity and Surround Gaming displays. They are voted by the WSGF community, and only games with perfect widescreen, Eyefinity and Surround implementation may be considered for Game of the Year.

Game of the Year: Dirt 3 (Codemasters) – The wildly popular Dirt 3 was selected by the WSGF community as Game of the Year, not only for its stellar gameplay but also for perfectly supporting widescreen, Eyefinity and Surround display configurations.
Mainstream Developer of the Year: Codemasters – For their perfect implementation of widescreen, Eyefinity and Surround gaming support in their DiRT…

IRL GoldenEye 64 Video Makes Fun of Classically Poor AI

This was posted over at Gizmodo and I thought it would be nice to bring it here as well – some YouTube filmmakers have created a video of an “in real life” session of GoldenEye 64 being played with special attention to the game’s awful AI. Check it out!

Yakuza: Dead Souls Mini-Games Trailer

SEGA has released a new trailer showing off the mini-games in its upcoming Yakuza: Dead Souls.
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