Id and Bethesda have announced the dates for the 18th annual king of LAN gaming, Quakecon.
The Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas will host the event on August 1-4 and hotels should be offering booking specials. As always the event itself is free just be sure and don’t forget to lug your PC there so you won’t look…weird.
Check out the Quakecon site for more details.
Blizzard has announced that the PS3 and PS4 versions of Diablo 3 will not require a constant internet connection like its PC brother. You can play the game through local multiplayer with four players on screen at once and the camera will simply pan out for a view of all the characters.
Also Diablo 3 will not be able to cross platform game between the PC, PS3 and PS4. So whichever version you have that is who you will be gaming with online also.
Diablo 3 is set for release this fall.
Fans of Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer are getting a nice, shiny new DLC pack to download today and the best part is that it is absolutely free.
Mass Effect 3: Reckoning will add new allies, weapons and equipment. Geth Juggernaut, Cabal Vanguard, Talon Mercenary along with others are now playable characters as well as seven new weapons and equipment like the Geth Scanner and Batarian Gauntlet.
Mass Effect 3: Reckoning is up on PSN and XBL. Take a look at the trailer below.
If you are looking for another MMO to jump into and mill around in then this may hit the spot. Steam has made Age of Conan: Unchained free to play for all PC Steam users.
You can also receive the DLC packs at a discount too if you want to take your adventures in Hyboria more in depth.
There should be a “by Crom” joke in here somewhere, but it escapes me.
Hideo Kojima may soon become the new Peter Molyneux with his game propaganda. In a recent roundtable discussion the Metal Gear Solid creator said that games have failed to mature in the past twenty-five years and that his work on Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes is trying to change that.
“That’s precisely what I want to try to tackle with Ground Zeroes. Honestly I’m going to be targeting a lot of taboos, a lot of mature themes that really are quite risky,” Kojima said. “I’m not even sure if I’m going to be able to release the game, and even if I did release the game then maybe it wouldn’t sell because it’s too much. As a creator I want to take that risk.”
I understand that Kojima is always trying to go to new places as a game maker, but to say that video games have not matured in the past twenty-five years is completely asinine. That said, I am still fully in support of his attempts to bring more mature themes to his franchise.
Less than week after Watch Dogs stole the show at Sony’s Playstation 4 event Ubisoft has revealed the box art for the fall game. And the most interesting part of this is that it shows that the game is indeed coming for current generation systems as well as the Playstation 4 and next Xbox.
No release date has been given for Watch Dogs, but it should release in the fall.
Do you have some extra MS Points sitting around on your Xbox just for a rainy day? Well that rainy day seems to be February 26th when a host of games will be getting deep price cuts on Xbox Live.
Games will be marked down up to 75% off of the download price and it is quite the impressive list including the likes of [amazon_link id=”B0050SYK44″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Borderlands 2[/amazon_link], [amazon_link id=”B0050SY4DG” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Resident Evil 6[/amazon_link] and [amazon_link id=”B0050SYX8W” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Halo 4[/amazon_link]. The sale will last from February 26th until March 4th.
Here is the list of games that will be on sale:
Assassins Creed
Assassins Creed 2
Batman Arkham Asylum
Batman Arkham city
Bioshock
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Brotherhood
Call of Juarez
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty 3
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Code Veronica
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements
Dead Island
Dirt 2
Dishonored
El Shaddai Ascension of the Metatron
Fable III
Fallout 3
Fallout 3 New Vegas
GRID
Halo 3
Halo 4
Halo Reach
Halo Wars
Kane & Lynch Dead Men
Left for Dead 2
Max Payne 3
Metal Gear Solid HD
Metal Gear Solid Peacewalker
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat vs. DCU
Orange Box
Portal 2
Raccoon City
Rainbow Six Vegas
Rayman Raving Rabbids
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 6
Red Dead Redemption
Revelations
Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution
Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter X Tekken
Super Streetfighter IV Arcade Edition
TC’s H.A.W.X.
Tekken 6
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
The Darkness
The King of Fighters XIII
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Tomb Raider Legend
Virtua Fighter 5
World at War
Irrational Games has announced that Bioshock Infinite will be joining the the growing groups of games to offer a season pass for its DLC.
The pass will cost $19.99 and include three DLC packs. The cost of the packs separately are $30. The exact nature of the DLC is not know at this time, but if you do purchase the season pass you will receive the “Early Bird Special” that lets you unlock four new exclusives including: pistol damage upgrade, machine gun damage upgrade, gold skins for pistol and machine gun as well as five Infusion bottles.
[amazon_link id=”B003O6E6NE” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Bioshock Infinite[/amazon_link] releases on March 26th.
Guerrilla Games took their PS4 exclusive Killzone: Shadow Fall to The Jimmy Fallon Show and let the host and guest Anthony Anderson get a chance to play. This should put to rest any rumors saying that the demo on Wednesday night was not gameplay because when you see how badly Fallon and Anderson suck at this it is pretty evident that this sucker is real.
Fun fact: all the weight Anthony Anderson lost was used as Jaden Smith’s stunt double in The Karate Kid.
http://youtu.be/rGlu3e9kdks
One of the great surprises last night was when Blizzard took to the stage and finally confirmed that Diablo 3 would be making the jump from PC to consoles. Not only that, but the loot filled dungeon crawler will see release on both the PS3 and PS4.
The game will have new customized controls for consoles, new camera perspective and a new interface. For those of you (like me) without a quality PC this is very welcome news. Well that and I like a controller more than keyboard and mouse. I know, I know blasphemy blah, blah, blah.
Diablo 3 will be playable at this year’s PAX East on March 22-24.