Remember that weird teaser from Telltale Games with the Heavy from TF2, Tycho from Penny Arcade, Strong Bad from Homestar Runner, and Max from Sam & Max? Turns out it was a card game after all, and it’s called Poker Night at the Inventory.

The press text states that “You’ll experience a new style of poker, particularly when hands don’t go the way of the other fiery competitors at the table.”, so maybe they will offer up a twist to the game? This announcement tied in with PAX, so maybe we’ll hear something more from the floor there. Read the rest of this entry »

Now, I understand that the title might sound like an ex-girlfriend, but I assure you that these are completely, 100% Arkham City-related. No tears and sleepless nights here, unless you’re afraid of the Big Bad Bat.

They used to be on this Flickr account, but it seems that our friend The Joker has made off with them.  Luckily, I snagged ‘em before they went away.

Arkham City is shaping up to be amazing. Check these bad boys out.  They show off Catwoman, Harley, Two-Face and the Caped Crusader himself.

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Oh Valve, you coy little bitch!

Valve boss Gabe Newell recently came out to PC Gamer and revealed Valve was working on “at least three big surprises” in the next 12 months. How much are you willing to bet Half-Life Episode 3 won’t be among those surprises?

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If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight you’re going to see some serious shit.

Remember that Back to the Future game Telltale announced a while back? Of course you do. It was heavy, Doc! Now you’re going to get to talk to Doc Brown himself, because Christopher Lloyd is going to be in the game!

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Blizzard just announced that the first-of-three StarCraft II installments, Wings of Liberty, has hit 3 million sales in just one month.

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Square Enix has decided to drop the TGS trailer for Final Fantasy XIV despite the fact the show is just under a full three weeks away. It’s weird timing, but the trailer itself is pretty damn awesome.

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BioWare has just released an extended version its gamescom Dragon Age 2 “Destiny” trailer.

The footage shows off the sequel’s new protagonist Hawke, as he faces off against regicidal boss in what can only be summarised as a really awesome video sequence. Catch it after the cut.

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BioWare has just announced Witch Hunt, the next (and possibly last) piece of downloadable content for Dragon Age: Origins.

Catch the spoiler heavy details after the cut.

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Who knew there were better uses for an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device than making your teammates’ existence a living Hell?

Apparently, at the very least, they make your teammate a useful button-pressing device.

Hit the link to Gametrailers to check the video out!

Bill, Zoey, Francis, Louis. We’ve laughed together. We’ve cried together. We’ve ran like little girls from Witches and Tanks together. But now Valve is going to let us pick which one of you gets to become zombie chow.

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Max Schaefer, CEO of Runic Games, has stated that he’d hopefully like to release Torchlight on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network by this holiday season.

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HELLO THERE AND WELCOME TO THE GAMING VAULT ENRICHMENT AND TESTING FACILITY. PLEASE STAY ATTENTIVE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT.

WE ARE PLEASED TO INFORM YOU THAT VALVE’S HIGHLY ANTICIPATED GAME PORTAL 2TSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS HAS-HAS-HAS AN OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE.

EXPECT TO VACATE YOUR HOMES TO PURCHASE PORTAL 2 ON FEB-FEB-FEBRUARY 9TH, 2011.

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The EA press conference is going on at Gamescom right now, and Dr. Ray Myzuka was just on stage, letting us know that Bioware’s most successful title, previously only available on 360 and PC, will be coming to PS3s in January 2011.

In addition, Dragon Age II’s lead designer was up on stage, letting us know that the game will be out  at 11. March, 2011 in Europe, and 08. March in the US, along with their first pre-rendered trailer, showing of Hawke’s powers.

I guess we are looking at another Bioware-dominated Q1.

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PC Gaming, you guys! 2010 has been a great year for the Computré de Personnel as a gaming platform, with Alien Swarm released by Valve for free, StarCraft II consuming the gaming stratosphere, and Civ V expecting to do the same next month. Now Microsoft have gotten their finger out as well, and have revived their two most successful PC-centric franchises, Age of Empires and Flight Simulator.

The game will be known as “Microsoft Flight”, and the website so far only has a classy, but vague teaser trailer on it, with a biplane flying over an ocean. I expect it to get a similar treatment as Age of Empires: Online, releasing it as smaller downloadable title, given the rather small target audience for flight sims. Read the rest of this entry »

Strategy games are back! Starcraft II is currently dominating the gamer landscape, while it seems just about everyone is anticipating the release of Civilization V. And now we see the return of another beloved strategy franchise, namely Age of Empires.

Microsoft announced at Gamescom that they’re bringing back the series as Age of Empires Online, a downloadable, “free-to-play” title, with cartoonier graphics, and more multiplayer & social hooks.

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