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Borderlands 2 launch trailer: lots to shoot

By Alice O'Connor, Sep 17, 2012 7:45am PDT

Borderlands 2 launches tomorrow but you may not want to watch the launch trailer if you're carefully avoiding any and all story spoilers. The previous sentence was, of course, a 'joke.' Come, watch the launch trailer, see how many men, monsters and robots are waiting for you...

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"Just 4 buddies, everyone with their guns, clicking those chests, grabbing that booty, pew pew, ..."

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Borderlands 2 skill calculators released

By Alice O'Connor, Sep 10, 2012 6:00am PDT

Borderlands 2 won't arrive on shelves until next week, but you can start planning your character builds right now as Gearbox has released skill calculators for its FPS-RPG for you to pore over. Vault hunters, start your min/maxing engines.

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"In BL1 my builds got me all except one or two top tier skills in each of the three trees (w/o ..."

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown preview: Little Gray Target Practice

By Steve Watts, Sep 07, 2012 9:00am PDT

A hands-on look at XCOM: Enemy Unknown, peppered with thoughts on updating the classic from lead producer Garth DeAngelis.

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"this game is going to rock, I got UFO to learn how to play and its pretty brutal .. like no ..."

- Frush81 see all 8 comments

XCOM: Enemy Unknown experiments with pre-order bonuses on Steam

By Alice O'Connor, Sep 07, 2012 6:00am PDT

Ever keen to experiment with digital distribution, Steam is trying something unusual on XCOM: Enemy Unknown pre-orders with publisher 2K. Rather than offering fixed bonuses, Steam will unlock increasingly fancy goodies as more people pre-order, including extra character cust...

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"Stack of Doom was a pretty crappy mechanic though. It always did seem like a weak spot of the ..."

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Borderlands 2 trailer explains what's new

By Alice O'Connor, Aug 31, 2012 8:20am PDT

Borderlands 2, then. That's Borderlands with a 2 on the end, right? If you're a bit hazy on what exactly the sequel adds, you'll want to check out a new seven-minute trailer which employs a delightful moustachioed gentleman by the name of Sir Hammerlock to explain it all.

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"randomized map is much much harder to achieve when you can look in any direction. Diablo has a ..."

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Borderlands 2 DLC Season Pass announced

By Alice O'Connor, Aug 30, 2012 6:45am PDT

Knowing what you do about Gearbox and the DLC it released for the original Borderlands, would you be happy paying $30 in advance for $40's worth of Borderlands 2 DLC? Publisher 2K Games certainly you won't feel a need for reviews, as it's launching an oh-so-trendy DLC season...

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"Haha, you figured that out? You think they would bother if they didn't make profit out of it? xD"

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Spec Ops: The Line dev says its multiplayer 'like a cancerous growth'

By Alice O'Connor, Aug 29, 2012 6:00am PDT

It's no secret that publishers often foist multiplayer modes upon single-player-focused games to make them more attractive to would-be customers, but it's rare to hear a developer speak so openly and contemptuously of this practice as Spec Ops: The Line lead designer Cory Da...

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"Loved Loved Loved the single player game. Didn't even know it had MP."

- SlingBlaze see all 14 comments

Watch an hour of XCOM: Enemy Unknown

By Alice O'Connor, Aug 28, 2012 6:45am PDT

You wouldn't know it from watching the bang-pow-quote-cinematic-die-die trailers, but XCOM: Enemy Unknown is actually a turn-based tactical affair in the same vein as the widely-celebrated original X-COM games. Fortunately, publisher 2K decided to show off the game itself ye...

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"That's what the rabid X-Com fans want to hear, though. And it wasn't every time something ..."

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Borderlands joins PlayStation Plus in September

By Andrew Yoon, Aug 27, 2012 11:00am PDT

Just in time for the release of Borderlands 2, PlayStation Plus' "Instant Game Collection" will add the original Borderlands next month.

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"Yup! All the Back to the Future's, the walking dead games, outland, just cause 2, Warhammer, ..."

- pgharavi see all 6 comments

XCOM: Enemy Unknown trailer shows casualties of war

By John Keefer, Aug 24, 2012 6:45am PDT

The scene on the ground is pandemonium. People are dying out there, and the enemy is still unknown. The new trailer for XCOM from Firaxis shows off the need to train good soldiers to keep your team's casualties to a minimum.

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"Cannot wait for this, of course I am currently playing through the first one, Really hope they ..."

- mcpstoner see all 9 comments

Shack PSA: Spec Ops: The Line co-op now available

By Steve Watts, Aug 21, 2012 4:30pm PDT

Spec Ops: The Line is getting a free co-op update today, offering four objective-based scenarios for two players.

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""Waves of enemies", "four missions" - as in, no campaign co-op? I'll pass."

- Parias see all 3 comments

Borderlands 2 PC video shows off fancy PhysX effects

By Andrew Yoon, Aug 16, 2012 10:30am PDT

Borderlands 2 for PC will predictably come with fancy graphics effects not found in the console versions. Among them is support for Nvidia PhysX.

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"I don't think I've ever found any facts on whether or not a weaker dedicated Physx card will ..."

- at0micgarden see all 17 comments

Spec Ops dev 'regrets' having achievements on choices, says sales are low

By Andrew Yoon, Aug 13, 2012 4:30pm PDT

While Yager's decision to take 2K's Spec Ops series into psychological territory was commendable, there's one feature that irked many gamers the wrong way: achievements.

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"Some of my favorite games have scores. Bayonetta has a combo score and an end-of-verse and ..."

- the archvile see all 15 comments

XCOM: Enemy Unknown to feature one-on-one deathmatch mode

By Andrew Yoon, Aug 10, 2012 12:00pm PDT

For the first time in an XCOM (and X-COM) game, you'll be able to partake in one-on-one deathmatch shenanigans.

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"Having the multiplayer portion can potentially create some improvements in the single player AI ..."

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Report: BioShock Infinite multiplayer modes axed, game still 'on track' for February release

By Andrew Yoon, Aug 09, 2012 12:45pm PDT

After reports of key departures from the studio, another report has surfaced, claiming that the long-rumored multiplayer modes for BioShock Infinite have been axed.

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"So whats the bad news? I loved B-Shock 1, and I thought B-shock 2 was good but the multiplayer ..."

- rtricoche see all 22 comments