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ANNOUNCEMENT 09 Jul 2016­ by David Pink

Ubisoft’s 30th Anniversary Giveaway Continues

Ubisoft just dropped their second free offering of the 30th Anniversary game giveaway event in our laps, the classic Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. Ubisoft will be giving away one free classic game each month until the end of the year on Uplay, the first game given to us last month was Prince of Persia: The…
ANNOUNCEMENT 07 Jul 2016­ by J. A. Kinghorn

Prey for the Gods Takes to Kickstarter

Wearing its influences and punny name on its sleeve, Prey for the Gods centres around monolithic boss battles and survival. You play as a lone female protagonist searching for answers as to why the land has been plunged into an eternal winter. The most obvious source of influence is Shadow of the Colossus but seeing…
ANNOUNCEMENT 07 Jul 2016­ by Nail Garejev

GeForce GTX 1060 Announced

Hot on the heels of AMD Radeon RX 480 release, Nvidia has announced their competitor in the same general price and performance category – GeForce GTX 1060. GTX 1060 is based on GP106 GPU, which is essentially half of the larger GP104 (used in GTX 1070 and 1080). As clocks are similar to its larger…
ANNOUNCEMENT 07 Jul 2016­ by Kyle Johnson

Evolve Has Gone Free to Play

Roughly 15 months after release and a 95% decrease in player count, Turtle Rock Studios has finally moved Evolve into a free-to-play business model. Their first game since developing Left 4 Dead in conjunction with Valve, Evolve upon release was beleaguered with questions about the necessity of their vast DLC model, and the longevity of…
REVIEWS 05 Jul 2016­ by L Coulsen

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter

Widely accepted as the greatest detective, literary or otherwise, that ever lived. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes has won the hearts of every generation since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887. Reinvented and reimagined a multitude of times, the continuing video game series has become one of the most loved incarnations, with…
NEWS 05 Jul 2016­ by L Coulsen

SEGA Acquires Amplitude

Effective immediately, Amplitude Studios are joining the SEGA family, who are picking up publishing rights for all previous Endless titles, and the upcoming Endless Space 2. Which will be going into Steam Early Access later this year. Considering how well the Endless series has done already (Dungeon of the Endless is a personal favourite) the…
ANNOUNCEMENT 05 Jul 2016­ by Nail Garejev

AMD Radeon RX 480 Launch

AMD has announced their first 14 nm based Graphics card a month ago. While Nvidia have started the new gaming GPU generation with their big guns (not the biggest, however), AMD aimed for the popular range around $200 with Radeon RX 480. It is time to see how well Red Team’s newest card performs in…
ANNOUNCEMENT 04 Jul 2016­ by Lee Braden

XCOM 2: Shen’s Last Gift

Commander, after that strange thing that hit us, we are receiving a signal from an unknown location, Shen wants to do a recon mission there, as her Rover is uplinking to it. XCOM 2 has been updated with some general fixes and also with the next DLC Shen's Last Gift. Explore an abandoned ADVENT facility,…
REVIEWS 29 Jun 2016­ by L Coulsen

The Technomancer

In the last few years, Spiders have gone from being a tiny Indie studio, with a budget of fifteen dollars and a packet of chewing gum. To being…well, pretty much the same thing, but considerably better known. Since partnering with Focus Home Interactive, their efforts have reached an increasingly wider audience, and their efforts have…
ANNOUNCEMENT 29 Jun 2016­ by David Pink

The Division’s Update 1.3 Underground Now Live!

Ubisoft released yesterday, June 28th, the first expansion to Tom Clancy’s The Division, the ‘Underground’. This much anticipated (and sorely needed) expansion is available for all Season Pass and ‘Underground’ DLC owners. Several new features have been added to the game, such as the Underground Rank, which players gain experience and climb the ladder to…
ANNOUNCEMENT 27 Jun 2016­ by L Coulsen

The Launchomancer

Only a few hours to go and Spiders' latest RPG, The Technomancer, will be available for all. With our review following close behind, since I've already put in more than a full day of play time. 'Tis a large game, one might even say an epic game. As evidenced by both, well, the game itself…
REVIEWS 27 Jun 2016­ by Kyle Johnson

Mirror’s Edge Catalyst

The sequel to one of the breakout surprises of 2008, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst moves away from the level-based City of the first game to the open-world City of Glass. Further changes to the timeline, characters, and more make Catalyst more of a reboot than a prequel proper. Does Mirror’s Edge Catalyst do enough to soar…
ANNOUNCEMENT 27 Jun 2016­ by Sawyer Scherbenske

Street Fighter V Reveal Balrog and Others

Right after the Street Fighter V top 8 at CEO 2016, Capcom had a little surprise in for all of us. The bull-headed boxer Balrog has beaten his way back into the knock-down brawl that is Street Fighter V, this time sporting a fancy new cloak and stage. As you might expect, Balrog throws some…
ANNOUNCEMENT 23 Jun 2016­ by Simon Sirmenis

Steam Summer Sale 2016

If you’ve been living under a rock, brushing off all the rumours and ignoring all the leaks then this is going to be a shocker, for the rest of us, Steam Summer Sale is here. It will go on for nearly two weeks till 4th of July and will end with...just end. Identically to the…