Author - Jerry Paxton

Crysis for Consoles Trailer Released

Crytek and Electronic Arts have released the first trailer for their upcoming release of Crysis on console platforms. The game will be released next month for $19.99 on both the Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network services.

“We are extremely proud of what we were able to accomplish with Crysis. We set out to create a next-generation FPS and delivered a PC experience that became a benchmark for quality – and still is for many gamers even four years later,” said Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek. “By bringing the single-player campaign to console, we believe we are again setting a new standard for quality in downloadable gaming.”

Total War: Shogun 2 Rise of the Samurai Trailer

SEGA and The Creative Assembly have released a new trailer for their recently-released Rise of the Samurai DLC pack for Total War: Shogun 2. In the “Rise of the Samurai” campaign, players take on a brand new and independent campaign for Total War: SHOGUN 2 set in 12th century Japan, 400 years prior to the game’s main storyline.

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New Dungeons – The Dark Lord Screenshots

Kalypso Media has released some new screenshots from their soon to-be-released strategy game, Dungeons – The Dark Lord, which is due out on September 27th for the Windows PC platform.

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Original Max Payne Going Mobile

Rockstar Games has announced that the original Max Payne will be coming to mobile platforms in March of 2012. Max Payne will have connectivity to the Rockstar Games Social Club and boast the same features as its PC counterparts — including HD graphics and high-resolution textures. No word yet as to pricing or which mobile platforms it will be released on, but stay-tuned as more is released!

The Parasites Come to Gratuitous Space Battles

Positech has announced the release of the latest expansion for Gratuitous Space Battles – The Parasites. From the Official Website…

What The Parasites Expansion Pack Contains:

10 New ships. 4 Cruisers 3 Frigates and 3 fighters, all in a new graphical style by the same artist who did the original GSB artwork. The parasite ships have multiple translucent sections in varying colors, coming accross as classy, expensive, but also not to be messed with..

3 New ship equipment:  The flak cannon is a cruiser weapon designed to target enemy fighter swarms. The cannon ahs an ‘area-of-effect’ damage as well as hitting the target ship. The Plasma slinger is a small but ultra-high-rate-of-fire plasma torpedo weapon. This is the first plasma weapon that can have multiple torpedoes in flight at the same time. The missile revenge scrambler is a whole new type of ECM weapon that actually sends missile back to attack the ship that launched them, rather thamn just scrambling their guidance systems.

New ship bonuses. The parasites build these ships to last. Most of the new hulls have both integrity and armor bonuses. The parasites aren’t so good on the shields front, but they make up for it with stronger armor.

You can find out more about this new race, as well as how to purchase the DLC pack, over at the game’s official website.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Coming to Mac this Winter

Feral Interactive and Square Enix have announced that the recently-released action-RPG, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, will be hitting the Macintosh platform this Winter.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution presents the player with truly meaningful decisions in a unique and captivating game world.” said David Stephen, Managing Director of Feral Interactive. “The degree of freedom it offers is extraordinary.”

Pricing, system requirements and a more precise release date will be announced later this year.

Syndicate Announced with Screenshots

Electronic Arts and Starbreeze Studios have announced the return of the classic PC franchise, Syndicate. The new Syndicate title will be a first-person shooter due out in 2012 for the Windows PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 platforms. It looks as though the game’s first trailer will be released on September 29th, so stay-tuned!

“We are excited to finally reveal what we’ve been working on the past couple years,” says Mikael Nermark, CEO of Starbreeze Studios. “It’s been a great experience working with EA, and an amazing opportunity for us to use our expertise in the first person shooter and action genres to bring back, and reignite, the signature action/espionage gameplay of Syndicate.”

About the new Syndicate

Set in 2069, Syndicate takes players into a dark, Machiavellian world run without government oversight with many syndicates vying for total dominance of their local market place. With no one to question their intentions or actions, three mega corporations – Eurocorp, Cayman Global, and Aspari – are at the forefront of this brutal war for control of the pivotal American market. In the world of Syndicate, everything is digitally connected, including the people. Players aren’t limited to the weapons in their hands. Through DART 6 bio-chip technology implanted in their head, players can slow down time and breach the digital world around them to take down their foes using a variety of upgradable hacking mechanics. Syndicate’s blend of fast-paced, futuristic, action shooter settings and story combined with innovative chip breach gameplay instantly immerses players in a unique digital world.

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EverQuest Veil of Alaris Trailer

Sony Online Entertainment has a new trailer for their upcoming EverQuest expansion, Veil of Alaris, showing off the area known as Argath: Bastion of Illdaera.

About Argath: Bastion of Illdaera

The mountain fortress of Argath will be the first stop for most adventurers who choose to take up the challenges presented by the continent of Alaris. The imposing walls and grand scale of Argath should leave one feeling safe and serene, but invaders threaten and momentous events are beginning to take place. Will your hand be the one that brings Argath back to safety?