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Combining fast-paced first-person shooting with a Diablo-like loot system and the deep character customization of a role-playing game, Gearbox's Borderlands was a surprisingly sophisticated modernization of Doom-era kill-everything-you-see mayhem, and one of 2009's most memorable titles. It got even...

Guild Wars 2's skill system is not a simple one, but thankfully right from the beginning you can hop into a PvP lobby and play around with a level-capped character, testing out skills you might not have a chance to otherwise use for many hours of play through the main game. This PvP character is separate from the one you level through the storyline, and you use it to hop into Conquest battles, which revolve around capture point control...

If you've ever wanted to learn to make games, Code Hero might be your best chance...

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Aion is going free-to-play this Spring. It may be old news to European readers, but for United States Aion players, this means big changes. The switch is coming with update 3.0, named Aion Ascension. The update will also introduce a player-housing system, mounts, six new instances (plus a new raid),...

The Game: N Genre: Ridiculous Wall-Jumping Platformer Platform: PC, Mac, Linux The Scoop: Quick, raise your hand if you played N+. My best guess is a lot of you are now looking a little silly, with your hand up in the computer lab, office, or other inappropriate-to-have-raised-your-hand...

If you want to blast apart mechs in relatively fast-paced action, there are plenty of options in 2012. But for those who want a slower game, one where tactics and planning could really matter, you might want to keep an eye on MechWarrior Tactics...

A couple weeks ago we reported that Amnesia: The Dark Descent developer Frictional Games was working on a new Amnesia game. The teaser website originally displayed a blurry image with the title Amnesia, that directly linked to a Google map of China. Little did we know that this was the beginnings of an ARG that reveal brand new un-blurry art as well as a tentative launch window...

"'Sins of a' is our 'Craft'," explains Blair Fraser, co-founder of Ironclad. He's speaking specifically about the naming convention for Sins of a Dark Age, his studio's new intellectual property. Just as Blizzard Entertainment inserts 'Craft' into most of their games names, Ironclad is apparently fo...

Though previously announced for an April 2012 release date, Funcom's The Secret World will now launch on June 19, 2012. The reason for the delay was to "invest more development time into the title in order to apply even more polish." Unlike many MMOs set in high fantasy or science-fiction setting...

Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry Hryb (Major Nelson) has confirmed that new Assassin's Creed Revelations DLC will hit the Xbox Live Marketplace next week...

This morning 2K Games announced that Spec Ops: The Line comes to stores in North America on June 26th and internationally on June 29th...

In ShootMania Storm, Ubisoft-owned developer Nadeo is attempting something very ambitious indeed: to take the versatility, accessibility and competitive fun of its acclaimed racer TrackMania and apply those principles to the most saturated of genres, the FPS. In doing so, it hopes to appeal to both the greenest cadet and most grizzled veteran...

Recreating a classic game in a new genre runs an overwhelming risk of failure. Not only must the product satiate fans of the original experience, the new game also needs to stand on its own with successful design choices and innovation. Oftentimes the redo reflects the exact standards and formulas o...

As if MechWarrior Online and MechWarrior: Tactics weren't enough, another mech game has been announced. Called Reign of Thunder, this is yet another free-to-play mech combat game. The platforms its being developed for are currently unknown, but, as RockPaperShotgun astutely pointed out, F2P game...

Based on a weekend of beta testing, it's clear ArenaNet is building an incredible game. Beautiful, imaginative landscapes stretch in all directions, free of the off-putting copy / paste feel of some virtual worlds. Run through the starting city of the cat-like Charr and you'll see dark towers twisti...

Welcome to The Ten Commandments of Diablo III: Redux Jay Wilson Tribute Edition. What does that mean? It means we ran a 'Ten Commandments of Diablo III' feature back in September 2011, naively thinking we had a pretty good handle on all things Diablo III. And then those adorable boffins at Blizzard...

While there's no exact release date yet aside from Q2 2012, Diablo III game director Jay Wilson let the community know that the "large system changes" teased previously are now live in the beta version of the game, which could indicate Diablo III is almost, possibly, maybe, finally reaching a feature-stable state...

Counter-Strike's Inferno map has undergone some substantial changes over the years. From Counter-Strike 1.6 to Source to Global Offensive, numerous parts have been switched around to adjust lines of fire and the flow of battle in zones of frequent conflict...

The Game: Cave Story Genre: Robot Soldier 2D Metroidvania Platform: PC, Mac The Scoop: Much has been written about Japanese indie developer Pixel's modern classic Cave Story since its original release back in 2004. Paid remakes and updates have hit Steam, WiiWare and plenty of other plat...