To celebrate the 20th birthday of “the game that started it all”, id Software has released a free browser-based version of Wolfenstein 3D. It contains the original three episodes in their entirety, and lots of blue walls. You can play it here.
Hey, Apogee. “Aardwolf.”
Miklós already posted the official reveal trailer, the sneaky bugger. What the trailer reveals: Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is a direct sequel which takes place during the fictional second Cold War in the year 2025. You play as David Mason, son of the previous game’s protagonist Alex Mason.
But there is much the trailer did not reveal.
Fans of the series have their expectations: they want a huge, bombastic single-player campaign full of explosions, firefights and interesting characters. They want a rich, deep and rewarding multiplayer experience that’s easy to learn but difficult to master. They want the guns to feel good, responsive and weighty. True fans want the game to run at 60 frames per second, because anything less is an unacceptable compromise.
Neutronized, makers of fine flash-game distractions, have released perhaps their finest game yet: Roar Rampage.
It’s just you (giant space lizard) vs the city (and some army). Using your mighty physics-based punching action, you uppercut buildings, slap down helicopters and block incoming fire. Powerups give you some temporary destructive boosts, while picking up wrecking balls and street lamps let you slap further and harder, as a space lizard should.
We had limited hands-on with an earlier version of Diablo III at BlizzCon in October last year. Thanks to the folks over at Megarom, we got some time with the current Diablo III beta. The full game (which started development in 2001), is already available for pre-order and launches on May 15. Hit the jump for some brief impressions of Diablo III‘s current state.
I didn’t realize just how badly I wanted a game in which you play a Pomeranian and a race horse in a deserted Japan trying to figure out what happened to humanity.
You grow your “pack” so you can take on bears, raptors, hyenas and other predators that roam the urban jungle. The game features over 50 playable breeds and 80 types of animals.
Tokyo Jungle is set for release in Japan in June. It’s unlikely this will see an international release, which is a pity.
It’s been almost nine years since Tribes: Vengeance (2004). The series started with Starsiege: Tribes in 1998, and gained modest popularity part in thanks to its unique (and initially unintentional) movement system.
While Vengeance was decent enough, a falling out between the developer and publisher denied it its first important patch, and the franchise fell by the wayside. Much to everyone’s surprised, Global Agenda developer Hi-Rez Studios picked up the license and now we have Tribes Ascend.
It may not be very Ridge Racer, but it’s enough like TrackMania (on consoles no less) that you may want to watch this trailer showing off the Basic and Advanced editor functions. You might say “wow”.
Ridge Racer Unbounded is coming to PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, some time around March, 2012.
When you’re knee-deep in a game, patch notes matter. Am I right, World of Warcraft players? Call of Duty players? Battlefield 3 players? All those changes/fixes/buffs/nerfs matter, because let’s face it. You care. You care if your favorite character/gun/class is being adjusted. Everyone prays to the god of Buffs, hoping to be overlooked by the devil of Nerfs.
The official 1.02 Patch Notes for Soul Calibur V are out, detailing the changes being applied on Tuesday. It’s a pretty extensive list, and best viewed over at 8wayrun. Here’s a brief summary though: Most characters got damage nerfs, major holes in the battle system were plugged (such as certain characters not recovering their guard burst damage between rounds), and the “shot” glitch has been fixed.
Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn is a fan-made tribute to the grand-daddy of sci-fi space sims. Officially sanctioned by EA, it’s been in development for 10 years.
Using the Freespace 2 engine, it features an “epic storyline” that complements the events from Wing Commander 3, large-scale fleet battles, 60 voice actors, 55 missions, achievements, tons of cutscenes and lots of cheesy wingman dialogue.
You can read the full feature list here.
The original Wing Commander was released 22 years ago. The Darkest Dawn will be released for free on March 22 via the site.
From Thousand Pound, the masters of low-budget high-octane martial arts flicks, comes this 10-minute promotional short-film celebrating the release Street Fighter x Tekken.
Watch Ryu and Ken get their martial-arts on with Kazuya. Most of the actors are Power Ranger alumni, so their kung-fu is strong and wonderfully gesticulated.
Other great Thousand Pound shorts:
Ultra Combos #1
Naruto Shippuden: Dreamer’s Fight (Part One)
