PC

XCOM: Enemy Unknown Puts You In Command

Not just anyone can defend the Earth from mysterious aliens in X-COM: Enemy Unknown. This is the “most elite” fighting organisation in history, so you can expect at least some sort of written test, maybe a talent competition. It’s the price you pay for being the bestest.


January 18, 2012
Mobile

Little Empire Is A Massively Multiplayer Backstabbing Simulator

Camel Games’ high-polished “massively multiplayer online” empire building game Little Empires neatly demonstrates why we should never open ourselves up to the inevitable pain that friendship brings. Pretty heavy for a game with cartoon elves, right?


December 29, 2011
Nintendo

Paper-Rock-Scissors Tactics Spring To Life In Fire Emblem 3DS

This spring in Japan the swords, axes, and spears of Fire Emblem spring forth from the 3DS screen to pierce your eyeballs with varying degrees of severity depending on which sort of weapon you’re holding at the time. Check out the live stream of the game from the Nintendo Direct presser.


December 22, 2011
PC

League Of Legends Players Will Understand These T-Shirts

Gamer clothing creators Jinx have teamed up with Riot Games competitive PC gaming sensation League of Legends to create a set of shirts that I do not understand. Do you?


December 1, 2011
PC

Limbs And Heads Fly Free In Total War: Shogun 2′s Rating-Changing Blood Pack

While Total War: Shogun 2 does an excellent job of depicting the titanic clash between two warring factions, it’s always been missing a little something to make the experience complete: Majestic arcs of spurting crimson lifeblood, and the odd severed head. All this and more can be yours for $US1.59.


November 17, 2011
PC

Free Of Impulse, Stardock Visits The Sins Of A Solar Empire On Steam

Now that they’ve offloaded that pesky digital distribution platform, Stardock is free to spread its catalogue to greener pastures, starting with today’s release of Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity on Steam.


September 26, 2011
PC

End Of Nations Won’t Release Until 2012

Though no official release date had been given for the free-to-play MMORTS End of Nations, 2011 had not been ruled out for the game’s launch. Developer Trion took that off the table today at the Eurogamer Expo, saying the game will in fact arrive in 2012 and not sooner.


July 29, 2011
PC

Water, Water Everywhere, So Let’s Go Fight A War

If you’ve ever wanted to play a video game based on Kevin Costner’s Waterworld, only without Kevin Costner being anywhere near it, you should check out upcoming strategy title Oil Rush.


July 22, 2011
Mobile

How A Wish And A Nine-Year-Old Led To A Great Game

Tanks and Hovercrafts rage against the evil purple Flamions. Shots are fired on both sides as the player attempts to subdue the oncoming hoard of enemies. Sounds like a fun game, if not a little common in it’s setting. But Allied Star Police, and how it came into being, is anything but typical.


April 2, 2011
News

Evony Awarded $US300K From Hacker Who Probably Can’t Pay It

That Evony hacker who showed up to federal court in sweat pants will likely be wearing them a lot longer – if not a barrel. A judge rather quickly ruled against him, finding that selling auto-playing bots and game maps violated Evony’s copyrights, and awarded the game’s owners $US300,000.