February 2013 Archive



Divinity: Dragon Commander shows off all the features we didn’t know we wanted28 February 2013
Total War: Rome 2 tackles the Battle of Teutoburg Forest28 February 2013
Will Wright: SimCity initially "felt a little claustrophobic"27 February 2013
Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag leaked — it's all about pirates of the Caribbean27 February 2013
Meet the genetics experts consulting on Make Something Unreal 2013’s final four27 February 2013
The War Z returns to Steam26 February 2013
StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Vengeance launch trailer shows many terrans being mushed26 February 2013
BIT.TRIP Runner2 released on Steam with accompanying launch trailer26 February 2013
Valve's in-house economist on how Valve hires, fires and pays its staff26 February 2013
Respawn Entertainment going to E3; maybe we'll finally learn what they've been working on25 February 2013
StarCraft 2 mod: BarCraft turns the RTS into a turn-based bar brawl card game25 February 2013
Blizzard hosting StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm livestream tomorrow, new trailer incoming25 February 2013
Gabe Newell to receive BAFTA Fellowship in recognition of outstanding lifetime achievement25 February 2013
Treyarch issue temporary workaround for Black Ops 2 disconnection problems25 February 2013
SimCity trailer speaks to the city planner in all of us24 February 2013
Mojang Humble Bundle game jam complete; not too late to buy the bundle24 February 2013
Unity co-founder quits to become indie developer24 February 2013
Diablo 3 on Playstation looks set to have offline mode; well that's a kick in the vulnerables23 February 2013
Prey 2 website: Bethesda say "It's not something we're doing."23 February 2013
Spotlight on Greenlight, 23/2/13: Conquest23 February 2013
Ubisoft “want to improve [their] relationship with PC gamers”. Via Uplay.22 February 2013
StarCraft 2 custom UIs and Heart of the Swarm replay features on show in new video21 February 2013
The PS4 reveal: it impacts PC gamers, too21 February 2013
BioShock Infinite Season Pass will grant access to three forthcoming DLC packs21 February 2013
DayZ mod comes to Steam21 February 2013
Latest Dota 2 patch deploys hero guides and builds20 February 2013
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 patch improves colour-blind assist and fixes a great many bugs20 February 2013
Banner Saga: Factions (soft) launches; rewards for backers this week20 February 2013
There Came an Echo: voice-controlled, squad-based tactics and Wil Wheaton's "magnificent beard"20 February 2013
Activision reduce Treyarch staff to reflect the needs of Black Ops 2 DLC development20 February 2013
Uplay store adds third-party games, including from Warner Bros. and EA, plus free games with some purchases19 February 2013
Jasper Byrne's New Game+ is stripping RPGs down to their barest bones19 February 2013
Papercraft app lets you print off nets of Minecraft models19 February 2013
Latest Dota mod patch reveals previously unseen heroes19 February 2013
OBS beta launches; free open source streaming software for all19 February 2013
Heavy Gear Assault announced, to be funded by Kickstarterish pledge system19 February 2013
EA and Virgin want to turn sports games into eSports; laymen don't understand CoD or StarCraft "nearly as well"19 February 2013
See Battlefield: Bad Company 2 modded to within an inch of its life19 February 2013
The Witcher 3’s open world will be more reactive, less “generic” than Skyrim’s19 February 2013
Will Bungie’s Destiny ever come to PC?19 February 2013
Starcraft 2 patch 2.0.4 will bring all the improvements of Heart of the Swarm to Wings of Liberty except, y'know, the new units and campaign19 February 2013
Starcraft 2 video recaps the three years since Wings of Liberty release; may make you teary19 February 2013
First StarCraft II: HotS tournament to be played at IEM World Championship19 February 2013
Arma 2: Complete Collection contains everything you need to play DayZ19 February 2013
Total War: Rome 2’s latest faction revealed: the Suebi19 February 2013
Steam update includes support for Linux; adds offline messaging16 February 2013
For Valentine's day say three little words: "Steam Linux Sale"14 February 2013
Diablo 3 players establish PvP fight club to avoid Battlenet shortcomings14 February 2013
Jagex may re-launch 2007 version of Runescape, will poll fans14 February 2013
UPDATED: Valve business director Jason Holtman leaves as Valve staff 'let go'.14 February 2013
Tribes Ascend: Game of the Year Edition trailer; six new maps and a new gun coming13 February 2013
JJ Abrams says that "in many ways games are better than movies at telling stories"13 February 2013
New Rome II screenshots tease Battle of Teutoburg Forest, Creative Assembly show off soundtrack13 February 2013
ESL to pay all outstanding prize money "by the end of February"13 February 2013
StarCraft 2 2.0.4 patch adds new replay features and revamps menus13 February 2013
Star Trek: The Game trailer; in which Spock pinches a lizard12 February 2013
Warner reveal third Arkham game is due out this year; Rocksteady not developing12 February 2013
Diablo 3 devs acknowledge auction house problems: "the fact that most players get their gear from the AH is an issue"12 February 2013
Games for Windows Live suffers four days of downtime12 February 2013
L4D2 Beta gets the Extended Mutation System, allows custom scripting12 February 2013
Diablo 3 hardcore characters will now suffer permanent death - no more account rollbacks12 February 2013
APB: Reloaded has 3 million registered players and a new update on the way11 February 2013
Prepare to be romanced: starting a new game on Valentine's Day makes you more likely to stick with it11 February 2013
Crysis 2 not pretty enough for you? MaLDoHD will fix that11 February 2013
The five best Half-Life movie scripts discovered in the bins behind JJ Abrams' house11 February 2013
Wasteland 2 video shows in-game footage and whole lot of scene setting11 February 2013
Diablo 3 duelling renamed to brawling and the world continues spinning10 February 2013
Legacy of Kain domain registered, likely by Square Enix10 February 2013
Chris Taylor: "We’ve gotten a lot of phone calls from people who are interested in publishing Wildman"10 February 2013
Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm public beta closing in March9 February 2013
Epic closes Impossible Studios: "it wasn't working out"9 February 2013
Quadrilateral Cowboy trailer shows something fascinating at work9 February 2013
Gabe Newell speaks of collaboration with JJ Abrams on either a game or film project9 February 2013
Obsidian are lobbying Disney with one of their “top three pitches ever”: a new Star Wars game set during the films9 February 2013
Blizzard will continue to “invest aggressively” in Diablo 3 after 12 million copies sold in 20128 February 2013
Skyrim HD texture pack updated to support expansions6 February 2013
Witcher 3 trailer shows how to craft 49 uninformative seconds6 February 2013
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt screenshots abound, are exquisite6 February 2013
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt announced — Geralt can now grow a mighty beard5 February 2013
Prey 2 website surfaces, could be legit4 February 2013
Twitch Turbo tier strips ads from streams for those willing to pay4 February 2013
Gabe Newell outlines a new, uncurated Steam: “Anybody should be able to publish anything”4 February 2013
GTA V console release date announced for September; all quiet on the PC front3 February 2013
Warcraft film to be directed by Duncan Jones2 February 2013
German consumer protection group sues Valve over Steam used sales ban, despite EULA changes2 February 2013