Today the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences picked 2010’s winners. Read Dead Redemption, the open-world western shooter developed by Rockstar was this edition’s top dog, taking home no less than 5 AIAS awards: action game, art direction, game direction, character performance and gameplay engineering. Read Dead Redemption’s success was already foretold by The Escapist Magazine which on January 21, 2011 awarded it with 2010 Game of the Year, praising the game for its engaging and well-told narrative and innovative gameplay and design. … More

Earlier today Square Enix Ltd. announced that Dungeon Siege III, developed by Obsidian Entertainment, will be available in Europe and other PAL countries from May 27, 2011 on Sony PlayStation3, Microsoft XBOX360 and Windows PC. A limited edition of the game will also be available in the same countries exclusively by pre-order and will feature four unique in-game items available to activate on day of launch, enhancing and increasing your characters’ abilities as they venture forth through the Kingdom of Ehb.

“With DUNGEON SIEGE III we are bringing the rich world and lore of Ehb to an all new audience,” said Ned Browning, Brand Manager at Square Enix. … More

Batman: Arkham City is the sequel of Batman: Arkham Asylum, one of the most successful games of 2009. The game, currently in development at Rocksteady Studios will be published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and is due to be released in the fourth quarter of 2011. In the meantime a steady stream of teasing media fuels everyone’s curiosity. Today a brand new set of screenshots has been made public, and we decided to take this opportunity to help you “scratch the itch”. Below you can find all the materials on Batman: Arkham City that have been released so far. Enjoy! … More

A new trailer and a new concept art set for the upcoming Red Faction: Armageddon, game developed by Volition and published by THQ, have recently surfaced. The new installment in the Sci-Fi franchise is set to be released in May 2011 on XBOX360, PS3 and PC promises to set new standards for game defining physics-weaponry in the shooter genre. The action takes place under the surface of the Mars in ice caves and lava tubes, fifty years after the resistance originally freed the red planet. The players, walking in the shoes of Darius Mason, will fight against a new horrifying evil that threatens to extinguish all life on the planet.

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The sequel of the publicly acclaimed physiological thriller Dead Space, developed by Visceral Games, an EA studio, is now available in retail stores in the US and will be available in Europe starting with the 28th of January on PS3, XBOX360 and PC. The Dead Space 2 Limited Edition for PlayStation 3 will include Dead Space Extraction, the prequel to the entire Dead Space saga, now featuring support for the PlayStation®Move motion controller. The announcement was coupled with the release of Dead Spaces 2: Severed, a DLC pack that expands the Dead Space 2 story with two additional single player stand-alone chapters. … More

A sequel to the original installment released in 2000 is finally out. If there were prizes given out for originality and innovative design, I’m sure the Majesty series would at least be mentioned as a nominee. Nowadays it’s hard to find a game that attempts to offer something new and if that game is an RTS then the surprise is many times bigger than in the case of other games genre. That’s because the first thing that comes to mind when mimicking strategic warfare in games is that you can’t improve something that has its current form based on centuries of evolution and development. But the truth is that you can, especially if you do no lose sight of the fact that a game should include the element of fun, something the cold reality which functions as inspiration might lack. So instead of using … More

Do you know what happens when mix all the colors together? Basically nothing, you just get an unimpressive grayish brown that can only be used to describe dirt. And this is exactly what happened to The Saboteur, a game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by EA: they took everything good out there and threw into a blender hoping for a magical result. Unfortunately what came out was not a rainbow, but an abomination that feeds on gamers’ fears.

The first thing that drew my attention was the name.  Saboteur – a game I loved back in the days when Commodore was the tip of the technological iceberg and two-frame animations were acceptable. That game’s main character was an athletic female ninja with no notable background, so because of that name I was kind of hoping for something similar when it came to The Saboteur. … More