Riot Games, developer of League of Legends, has released today a set of high-def images showing the concept art behind Lin Sin – The Blind Monk, one of the game’s champions.
League of Legends is an online game based on the highly popular DotA concept, first introduced for Warcraft III: Frozen Throne. Teams of up to five player-controlled champions battle on a map filled with AI controlled turrets and minions. Killing those or any of the opposing champions yields experience and thus allows the players to develop the skills and abilities of their own champions. The game’s ultimate goal is to breach the opponents’ defenses and destroy their base, or according to the game’s terminology, their Nexus. … More

A new trailer video and a new website was unveiled today, March 10, 2011 for The Secret World, a massively multiplayer online game developed and published by the leading game developer Funcom. The trailer gives the player a unique peek into the gameplay, the myths and monsters and the modern-day story of the much anticipated game. Players will not be limited to classes or levels, giving them the opportunity to play their characters as they wish, in their own style, as they make their way through the real-world locations featured in the game.

“It is truly exciting for us to show gamers just how much freedom they will be able to enjoy in The Secret World,” says Director and Producer Ragnar Tørnquist. … 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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Final Fantasy is one of the oldest IPs in the industry and over the years its rich JPRG content has been constantly enhanced with each new installment. Whether it was the combat system, the way the characters developed or simply the beautiful story that held everything together in perfect harmony, a FF game always came with the underlined promise of progress, of taking the whole series one step further on the evolutionary ladder. So it comes as a surprise and not a pleasant one to see the game not following its own rules and going for a simpler and accessible approach, especially for a debut on the PS3 and Xbox360 consoles that has been anticipated by fans for so many years. … More

Have you seen this girl, the new teaser trailer released by Iceberg Interactive today, comes to celebrate the global direct download launch of the game on various portals such as GamersGate and Impulse. The box versions of the game can still be preordered from Iceberg webshop and they will be shipped out early next week with the UK retail release date on the 11th.

In my opinion the story behind the trailer is many times more impressive than the actual footage to say the least, but a picture is worth a thousand words (or so they say) so a film must be worth a gazillion words. Here is the story and I’ll let you decide for yourself the truth value of that statement: … More

The movie comfortably rests midway between a drama with a few funny moments and a romantic comedy with a serious dose of realism. Tipping the scales towards one side or the either is just a matter of viewer taste and mood at the time of the viewing, but no matter the perspective the film’s presence in one’s long term memory is short lived.

The plot is rather simple: Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) meets Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel); boy falls in love; girl is looking just for fun and does not fall in love; boy is in pain; viewer is trying really hard to care. The stream of events follows this general pattern throughout the entire movie and there are no surprises in stored for you, no special events, no change of pacing, no nothing. … More

At the beginning of this month Bioware released its latest fantasy RPG for both PC and consoles, and ever since then it’s been raining roses, praises and applause. But is it really that good or are we again witnessing the power of EA’s marketing’s machine combined with the strength of the hypnotized masses? We’ve invested a few days of gameplay into it to find that out for you.

The character customization section that you will need to go through at the beginning of the game is decent enough and there is a pretty good variety of elements you can mix together in attempting to create something to suit your tastes. But don’t expect it to be extraordinary, because it’s far from it: you can create something… humanoid, but don’t try to create a character that looks, walks and talks just like you because you’ll be wasting your time. … More

Brilliant, just brilliant! I followed a friend’s advice and saw this movie and now I can’t help feeling that I owe him a lot. Because if I was to follow the commercials, the movie reviews from other magazines and in general the trend, the scent of popularity, then Moon would have been that fish small enough to fit through the holes of the net. What a huge loss that would have been…

Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is an astronaut working for the Lunar Corporation. Supported by a robot named GERTY (voice: Kevin Spacey) he is the one-man-crew of a facility that tends to four automated machines that mine for Helium 3 on the far side of the moon. Only two weeks separate him from the end of his three years contract and from returning back to Earth to rejoin his wife and little daughter. But something goes wrong, terribly wrong. … More

Pandorum falls in the large gap of mediocrity most movies nowadays do, leaving you with mixed feelings and with the impression that you haven’t completely wasted your time watching it, but you can’t put your finger on any of its features and call them brilliant. It’s common and easily forgotten.

The plot is simple, as the rest of the movie: in the future, the human race, facing extinction, sends into space towards a recently discovered planet that resembles Earth, a large colonization space ship. Due to malfunctions to the cryogenic sleep systems, a large part of the human cargo suffers mutations and turns into a cannibalistic life form with superhuman strength and enhanced predator abilities. A small group of survivors fights to save both ship and its decimated cargo, but to make matters worse some of them suffer from Pandorum, … More