Something will be sneaking around gaming world next Friday, something dark and mysterious. It goes by the name Thief.
The reboot of the legendary series might not be out until next week, but there is already a launch trailer. I find it odd when launch trailers come out so far away from release, but that’s the way of the business. Hit the jump to see the trailer.
What’s happened this week in the gaming world? Oh yes, the beta for Titanfall has started, the conjecture on Twitter is that people have been going slightly mad trying to get access. Apparently some people have been buying codes on eBay for ludicrous prices. Valve took the brave step in allowing people to add tags to games which might have resulted in the expected nonsense. Meanwhile Kevin Spacey returned with House of Cards on Netflix which makes me wonder why can’t we get more games with episodic story-telling to equal The Walking Dead episodes?
Enough of that, on with the games.
I spent a good portion of the morning battling my way through hordes of unyielding, malevolent beings hell-bent on my destruction. Once I’d got through London though I arrived at BandaiNamcoUK’s office near Hammersmith for a 3 hour hands-on with an almost finished PS3 copy of Dark Souls 2.
I’ve got what I call a love-hate relationship with the first Dark Souls. I love the environment and the feel of the game, though I at times found the game to be far too unforgiving and wilfully obtuse. That said, it still wormed it’s way into my affection so I was quite excited at my chance for some hands-on time with the sequel.
The latest outrage in the games industry lies with the rebirth of a seminal favourite, Dungeon Keeper. EA released a new mobile version of the game this months using the now commonplace free-to-play philosophy. Their free-to-play methods seem to have done down like a paid of concrete boots with gamers, even the BBC picked up on the outrage. I haven’t played this monstrous, evil game yet…but my impression of mobile games like this is that you flick on once or twice during a day and have a quick blast before switching to something else. If you play like that, surely the in-app purchases aren’t such a big deal? But maybe that is just me wanting to play devil’s advocate as usual.
On a less controversial note, why not hit the break to check out our latest version of Our Week in Games.
The Alien franchise has had a bit of a rocky recent past what with the poorly received Colonial Marines from last year and a downward spiral in the movies as well. Things might be taking a turn for the better though as Sega today announced Alien: Isolation to a string of rave previews all over the web.
Reading the tales those writers had from their short demo at developers the Creative Assembly had me in shivers earlier…
For this, the first Sunday on 2014, we here at Reticule Towers decided we would take a look at some of the games we are looking forward to this year. Why not hit the break to see what titles we are excited about.
Welcome to a post-Chrisms edition of Our Week in Games. I hope everyone had a splendid time and ate and drank plenty while hopefully reading our Games of the Year roundup. Once you have caught up, why not hit the break to catch up with our shenanigans over the Christmas week.
It is Christmas Day as this post goes live, so I certainly hope that you have all had a great day so far and wish you all a Merry Christmas. If you need something to read in between opening presents or while you wait for your dinner, why not check out Our Games of the Year.
Welcome one and all to the last part of this year’s run of Our Year in Games. You can find the earlier parts right over here. As ever, after the break you can read thoughts from the team about this past year in gaming, while getting ready for Our Game of the Year on Christmas Day. What tales do we have to share today, read on to find out.
As the title of this post implies, if you want to see some videos of some of the upcoming big hits all you need to do is hit the break. Down there you will find videos for The Witcher 3, Thief, The LEGO Movie Videogame and most spectacularly of all, The Division. What are you waiting for?