A Final Fantasy VII speed runner this morning missed out on the world record by only a few minutes. After a few random attacks cost him minutes during his run, he finally died in one of the final boss battles and he was forced to give up. It had taken him only a little over seven and a half hours to get there.
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The Pit MindGames DLC Review
Mind Games is a DLC that adds a slew of new content to Sword of the Stars: The Pit. It includes new levels, new weapons, new items, and new enemies. But, the most exciting addition is the psionic powers, along with 2 new classes: the ranger and the psion.
Read MoreNew Releases this week | July 22nd – July 28th
Pretty dead week this week for releases (especially for consoles). You just know it's a slow week when Smurfs 2 is the headline game.
Read MoreSword of the Stars The Pit Review
You are the last hope for mankind as a deadly plague is killing your world. Your mission is to travel deep into an alien facility that may or may not have the necessary resources to create a cure. This place is called The Pit and all who have entered have never returned. Can you survive the dangers that lurk within, or will death take you?
Read MoreDeadly Premonition Coming to PC
Deadly Premonition is coming to PC. Offering a heady mix of terrible controls and gameplay, silly scripting but deep characterisation, Deadly Premonition is the very definition of a community-splitting game. It'll be the director's cut as well, so there's the new scenario, "enhanced" graphics (which bring it up to PS2 standards) and the reworked control scheme (which still sucks).
Read MoreKnights of the Old Republic Turns Ten
One of the most popular and influential RPGs ever has turned ten today. Knights of the Old Republic was one of the first games to successfully capture the Star Wars vibe, but it also made a genre accessible to a whole new group of people and made possible games like Mass Effect, Dragon Age and even the modern Fallout games.
Read MoreSales Numbers Higher than Ever on Steam says Indie Devs
Mike Bithell, creator of Thomas Was Alone tweeted some interesting insights into the sales figures of Steam content during the summer sale. It seems sales might be going through the roof. The Steam sale is less than 24 hours old, and yet sales figures seem to be impressing even the devs themselves. His exact words are Any other devs seeing crazy (even by steam sale standards) sales? Numbers are mad. — Mike Bithell (@mikeBithell) July 12, 2013 How exactly…
Read MoreGamers Took Less than a Second to Crash Steam
The Steam Summer sale has started today, had you heard? Everybody else had heard as well, and as soon as the countdown timer above Alice: Madness Return his 0:00:00, Steam was forced to give up under the weight of hundreds of thousands clamouring to see what bargains might be on offer.
Read MoreSteam Summer Sale is Live
It’s that time of the year again, everybody. Take out your wallets and spend, spend, spend. The Steam Summer sale is now live, and although you’ll no doubt have problems getting onto the service for ten or fifteen minutes after 6, it’ll be more than worth the wait. There’s already been some odd problems all day, with images not loading and games disappearing entirely, so expect a bumpy ride with a fulfilling reward at the end. As always, it’s important…
Read MoreWatch Dogs Has Always-Online Features, But Isn’t Always-Online
Watch Dogs is a game that you'll want to have connected at all times, Ubisoft has revealed. Multiplayer will be so subtle that you probably won't even know you're in a multiplayer situation until the player entering your game actually chooses to attack, and there's no limit on the time they might follow you around, looking for the perfect opportunity.
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