August 2014 Archive



Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition announced by Beamdog at PAX 201431 August 2014
Rockstar is updating Grand Theft Auto V’s soundtrack for PC release31 August 2014
Meet Ratbag, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor’s sniveling orc informant31 August 2014
Dota 2 to receive long awaited Techies update next week; we're all doomed30 August 2014
Facepunch Studios announce Arcade: want to "let players design their own arcades"30 August 2014
GoD Factory: Wingmen launches on Steam, brightening up the galaxy30 August 2014
Maia 0.44 ramps up the danger with catastrophic earthquakes and suspicious aliens29 August 2014
Valve's going up against an Australian watchdog in court over its refund policy29 August 2014
The Journey Down: Chapter Two review29 August 2014
Telltale cruelly teases Game of Thrones details with A Dance With Dragons quote29 August 2014
Prison Architect alpha 24 turns prisoners into snitches 29 August 2014
Shadow of Mordor preview29 August 2014
Total War: Rome II to get new campaign map, "hundreds of hours" of free geopolitics29 August 2014
It looks like Volition will announce a Saints Row V this weekend29 August 2014
Firefall patch packs in the action making it much more fun to play29 August 2014
Internet misogynists drive Anita Sarkeesian out of her house with death threats29 August 2014
Wildstar producer and Carbine boss Jeremy Gaffney steps down29 August 2014
Empty space: Eve devs CCP close San Francisco office, high-ranking staff move on29 August 2014
Titanfall gets a new mode, Pilot Skirmish, and Titans aren't invited 28 August 2014
No world is safe: Planetary Annihilation launches next week28 August 2014
Not going to PAX Prime? There are bundles for that28 August 2014
S.W.A.P is a first-person shooter with body-swapping and no guns28 August 2014
Guild Wars 2 is doing really well in China28 August 2014
Why id reworked Quake Live for newcomers: "We have often longed for a wider audience"28 August 2014
Valve release Left 4 Dead 2 assets to Source Filmmakers28 August 2014
Quake Live gets a massive, newcomer-friendly update in anticipation of the Steam launch27 August 2014
StarCrawlers makes dungeons out of spaceships 27 August 2014
Escape Dead Island in November 27 August 2014
The Walking Dead Season 2: No Going Back PC review27 August 2014
GOG grows: now there's optional regional pricing and DRM-free movies27 August 2014
SimCity modders do what Maxis couldn't: expand its maximum city size27 August 2014
British geologists fill the gaps in Ordnance Survey's Minecraft Great Britain27 August 2014
EA hope to make $1 billion from DLC this year27 August 2014
League of Legends hits 4.15 and another champion, Azir, is on its way26 August 2014
Siege Warbear: Orcs Must Die! Unchained update introduces Tundra, the polar bear26 August 2014
Topic of the Week: How do you play episodic games? 26 August 2014
The Walking Dead Season 2: Amid the Ruins PC review26 August 2014
The Walking Dead Season 2 concludes next week, so prepare your emotions26 August 2014
The Walking Dead Season 2: All That Remains PC review26 August 2014
Jogging Dead: Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 3 is due out on May 13th26 August 2014
The Walking Dead Season 2: In Harm's Way looks as cheery as you'd expect26 August 2014
The Walking Dead Season 2: A House Divided PC review26 August 2014
A house but no home: The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 2 trailered to nail-bitey effect26 August 2014
The Walking Dead: Season 2's next episode is "just around the corner"26 August 2014
"Ungh!": voice actors take damage in the latest Evil Within trailer26 August 2014
Square Enix on Rise of the Tomb Raider Xbox deal: "We did not make this decision lightly"26 August 2014
Gotta have wraith: Zenimax to give pets as rewards to Elder Scrolls Online subscribers26 August 2014
Loadout is getting a co-op campaign mode; expect a Steam beta within weeks26 August 2014
Age of Empires: Castle Siege is a Clash of Clans-ish Windows 8 exclusive26 August 2014
Titan Souls trailer shows off delicious, demanding gameplay26 August 2014
Yoink! Amazon buys Twitch26 August 2014
How the indie community united to save survival game Duskers, a studio, and a dream 25 August 2014
Mojang postpone Minecon until 2015; still to take place in London25 August 2014
Screencheat is a game that encourages you to be "that friend" who, well, screen cheats24 August 2014
It's not all doom and gloom: EG.Fear returns to Dota 223 August 2014
Capcom release public beta for Ultra Street Fighter IV to K.O. netcode issues23 August 2014
How I fell in love with QuakeCon23 August 2014
Belle of the brawl: Cannon Brawl launches in September23 August 2014
ESA finds that more women play games than teenage boys22 August 2014
A Windows 9 preview build could come out as early as next month22 August 2014
Punch mechs for free with Titanfall's 48 hour Game Time promotion22 August 2014
This clever album promo is a Proteus style, low-fi adventure22 August 2014
System Shock 2's SHODAN voice actress on board for Dota 2 announcer pack22 August 2014
Riot on bringing back Featured Gameplay Modes: "No mode is off the table"22 August 2014
Firaxicon: Firaxis is putting on its first official convention next month21 August 2014
Script Kiddies: PvP hacking with a hint of tower defence21 August 2014
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter: the case opens in September21 August 2014
Renowned Explorers: International Society trailer sets the scene for globetrotting and artifact theft21 August 2014
Reus developer Abbey Games announces Renowned Explorers: International Society21 August 2014
Heat Signature: surviving in space for as long as you can21 August 2014
Noir Syndrome is a randomly generated murder mystery game21 August 2014
How To Train Your Drakken: Endless Legend's next playable race has been revealed21 August 2014
Ancient Space: a Paradox-published RTS with a cast from Star Trek, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica21 August 2014
Minecraft Bukkit project lead quits, Mojang take over21 August 2014
Gamescom 2014: Hands-on with Alien: Isolation21 August 2014
Hi-Rez: Steam free-to-play games have a discovery problem21 August 2014
The Dota International Grand Finals: Na'Vi vs iG21 August 2014
Overkill's The Walking Dead takes place in the comic universe, but with new survivors20 August 2014
Hellgate is quietly attempting a comeback through Steam Greenlight20 August 2014
Sienna Storm: a spy thriller and digital card game from Deus Ex and Knights of the Old Republic 2 devs20 August 2014
Some new Star Citizen stretch goals20 August 2014
Don't Starve Together closed beta planned for September20 August 2014
Gamescom 2014: The Indie Games Roundup20 August 2014
Valve not entirely without management. Ex-employee says “it felt a lot like High School”20 August 2014
Valve voted the company developers most want to work for, ahead of BioWare and Ubisoft20 August 2014
Jonathan Blow and friends to fund Rainbow Six-ish tactical FPS Due Process20 August 2014
Atari's latest PC reboot is Alone in the Dark: Illumination20 August 2014
How a working 1kb hard drive was built in Minecraft20 August 2014
Tee off: The Golf Club launches20 August 2014
Rad news: Wasteland 2 is only a month away19 August 2014
The Humble Jumble Bundle will keep you in strategy games for a good long while19 August 2014
The Odyssey is the Smite World Championship's answer to the Dota 2 Compendium19 August 2014
Topic of the Week: Exclusives - what are they good for?19 August 2014
Who is the least worst publisher of PC games? EA or Ubisoft?19 August 2014
Activision want to be "involved" in the indie movement: hence Sierra's return19 August 2014
Oculus VR "could" become a Sony or Microsoft, but "don't want to"19 August 2014
Notch is back aboard the VR train: "I'm over being upset about Facebook buying Oculus"19 August 2014
EA "haven't always been great listeners" but are "getting better"19 August 2014
Puppygames co-founder: customers "are worthless to us"18 August 2014
Kholat is a horror game inspired by a 55-year-old mystery18 August 2014
Enemy Starfighter will be at the PAX Indie Megabooth, so let's watch a lovely trailer18 August 2014
No Man's Sky won't be infinite, but it might as well be18 August 2014
Surgeon Simulator: Anniversary Edition pits surgeons against teeth and eyeballs18 August 2014
Sunless Sea's combat system has been thrown overboard18 August 2014
Hands on with The Golf Club18 August 2014
Microsoft's Phil Spencer thinks Xbox exclusivity deal will be good for Tomb Raider18 August 2014
Star Citizen reaches $50 million in funding by selling more virtual spaceships18 August 2014
Former designer apologises for Sacred 3: "die-hard fans didn't get the game they wanted"18 August 2014
Begin your Jedi training with the Sixense STEM System and Oculus Rift DK217 August 2014
Riot wants to help eSports players plan for old age, otherwise known as mid-twenties 17 August 2014
Dead Rising 3 on PC removes FPS limit and provides mod support16 August 2014
SEGA quietly announce that they're improving their Dreamcast ports on Steam16 August 2014
The summoning is complete: Clockwork Empires lands on Steam Early Access15 August 2014
EverQuest Next is looking impressive at SOE Live15 August 2014
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare is free for 72 hours with Game Time15 August 2014
Paradox announces Charlemagne for Crusader Kings II and Art of War for Europa Universalis IV15 August 2014
Here's a new trailer for the only Tomb Raider game we're getting for a good while15 August 2014
PES 2015 on PC won't be quite the same game as on new-gen consoles15 August 2014
Dota 2 spawns largest New York eSports event ever in Madison Square Garden15 August 2014
Want to go higher? The Elder Scrolls Online update 4 will introduce Upper Craglorn14 August 2014
Ubisoft wants to improve its reputation amongst PC gamers14 August 2014
Galactic Civilizations III beta: now it's getting fun14 August 2014
Fine-tune the hair on your chinny-chin-chin in The Sims 4 Create-a-Sim demo14 August 2014
It's time to meet Runemaster: a tactical Viking RPG from the makers of Crusader Kings14 August 2014
Obsidian enter "long-term partnership" to make games based on Pathfinder tabletop RPG14 August 2014
Payday devs Overkill are making a co-op "survival horror" Walking Dead FPS14 August 2014
Company of Heroes 2 is getting some solo campaign love with Ardennes Assault14 August 2014
You'll need to be able to improvise if you plan on surviving Alien: Isolation13 August 2014
Play Unreal Tournament for free without buying Unreal Engine 413 August 2014
Guild Wars 2 gets competitive in Cologne with the International All-Stars Tournament13 August 2014
The Evil Within will get three bits of DLC, so it's getting a season pass too 13 August 2014
Star Wars: The Old Republic subscribers are about to get player housing13 August 2014
League of Legends' Gnar is always angry in its Champion Spotlight13 August 2014
Daedalic are doing a Blackguards 2 with bigger and blowy-up-ier battle maps13 August 2014
Rise of the Tomb Raider won't be Xbox exclusive forever13 August 2014
Here's twelve minutes of Battlefield Hardline's single player campaign13 August 2014
Capcom to tackle Street Fighter IV Steam netcode issues with opt-in beta test13 August 2014
More changes are coming to Steam, including ominous groups of curators13 August 2014
Respawn talk Titanfall's final DLC pack: IMC Rising13 August 2014
BioWare's Shadow Realms is a 4 vs 1 "story-driven" action RPG from the SWTOR team13 August 2014
Grand Ages: Medieval gives you a crown to wear and an empire to carve out12 August 2014
A new game announcement from Volition will kick off PAX Prime12 August 2014
Atari announces RollerCoaster Tycoon World; it's micro-transaction free12 August 2014
Topic of the Week: What do you want us to tell you about from Gamescom? 12 August 2014
Activision's indie-friendly Sierra label will publish new King's Quest and Geometry Wars 312 August 2014
It looks like Rise of the Tomb Raider isn't coming out on PC12 August 2014
Sega plan to pay $1.25m to escape Aliens: Colonial Marines false advertising lawsuit12 August 2014
Space Hulk rises above criticism with RPG-infused Ascension edition12 August 2014
John Romero is making a shooter for the first time in 14 years12 August 2014
Poolgate: why Maxis haven't put pools in The Sims 411 August 2014
Map porn: Hearts of Iron 4 in action11 August 2014
A StarCraft classic for a new Proleague era11 August 2014
War does change: Toy Soldiers returns in War Chest, introducing some unconventional armies11 August 2014
City of Zombies: Dead Island 2 trailer is a montage of murder11 August 2014
The Great Gamescom 2014 Road-Trip: prepare for streams and news galore11 August 2014
Smite is out today: here's a touch of cineMOBA courtesy of Hi-Rez's animators11 August 2014
SMITE update gives Agni a makeover, and we're giving away codes for his new look11 August 2014
Nemesis, the Greek god of vengeance joins SMITE, and we've some codes to give away11 August 2014
Hi-Rez to Smite their MOBA-hungry public from March 2511 August 2014
Smite is blessed with new god Mercury, the speediest of the deities11 August 2014
Smite is blessed with new god Zhong Kui, and divine intervention changes Guan Yu from magic to physical attacker11 August 2014
Riot Games owners Tencent back Hi-Rez MOBA Smite11 August 2014
Poseidon is set to make a splash as Smite's newest god11 August 2014
Smite enters open beta; it's time to go hammer and tongs11 August 2014
Enemy Unforgiven: Hard West is XCOM as a Western11 August 2014
Mastertronic will live on: UK publisher wins backing for all-digital future11 August 2014
Lucius II: The Prophecy announced; reminds us not to mess with Satan's son10 August 2014
Street Fighter IV plagued with netcode issues after Steamworks move; Capcom working on it10 August 2014
Farming Simulator 15 is real; coming to PC in October10 August 2014
Twitch remove two hour highlight limit, add appeal button to muted VODs9 August 2014
Dying Light trailer demonstrates how to kill zombies like it's night and day9 August 2014
Scream: Killing Floor 2 showcases more of its deadly denizens9 August 2014
Weekend breaks: Kingdoms of Amalur is free on Origin for two days8 August 2014
Stop it: Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris comes in three different pre-order flavours8 August 2014
Vigil Games is reborn in the form of Gunfire Games; Darksiders a possibility 8 August 2014
Acting out: Eugen Systems teases Act of Aggression RTS8 August 2014
Square Enix won't let Sleeping Dogs lie; announces Definitive Edition8 August 2014
Activision have resurrected the Sierra name. But what for?8 August 2014
This generation: buy your cross-platform games on PC8 August 2014
Crytek "didn't have to sell" Homefront: The Revolution to Deep Silver8 August 2014
Battlefield 4's September patch to emulate Battlefield 3's soldier movement8 August 2014
Everybody panic: Steam is different8 August 2014
Twitch CEO on video muting: "We wouldn't do this if I thought there was a better way"8 August 2014
The game is afoot: Sherlock Holmes - Crimes & Punishments arriving on September 30th7 August 2014
Watch 20 minutes of Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments, dear Watson7 August 2014
BioWare executive producer Casey Hudson flies the coop7 August 2014
War is cheap in Battlefield 4: it's free for a week and on sale7 August 2014
Ask Twitch CEO anything, unless it's about being bought by Google7 August 2014
Space banditry: Tom Francis shows off Heat Signature 7 August 2014
Earth gets caught between Apokolips and New Genesis in DC Universe Online's Halls of Power DLC7 August 2014
Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies is the name of a real game coming to Steam7 August 2014
Crytek kept the Timesplitters license when they sold off Homefront7 August 2014
A fish is playing Pokemon on Twitch today7 August 2014
Firefall PC review7 August 2014
The Stomping Land isn't dead, but players are still out of the loop6 August 2014
Googled: Twitch starts to mute third-party audio in recorded videos today6 August 2014
The decline of pre-orders is good for everyone6 August 2014
Illuminating Seldon Crisis: a space MMO gunning for EVE Online6 August 2014
Play four hours of SimCity for free in an oddly-timed trial6 August 2014
What's next for TUG, the freshly Yogscast-backed survival RPG?6 August 2014
Codemasters refund players of Colin McRae Rally: not "the game they thought it would be"6 August 2014
Born to dye: guild and customisation-focused Elder Scrolls Online Update 3 now live6 August 2014
Evolve delayed till 2015 to ensure it's "genre-defining"6 August 2014
The Sims 4 will support mods and comes standard with mod directory6 August 2014
XCOM: The Board Game is a cooperative war against aliens led by a possibly evil companion app5 August 2014
Topic of the Week: What are your favourite mods?5 August 2014
Wing Commander III: Mark Hamill vs. Space Lions is free on Origin5 August 2014
Hunt killers and wear ten gallon hats in Westerado: Double Barreled5 August 2014
Expendabros: Broforce and Expendables 3 join forces to fight Mel Gibson in free spin-off5 August 2014
Vampire open season: Nosgoth open beta weekend begins on August 7th5 August 2014
How Divinity: Original Sin put the magic back into spellcasting5 August 2014
Guild Wars 2: The Dragon’s Reach: Part 2 gets new trailer5 August 2014
Epic Games have a new UK studio devoted to Unreal Engine 4 support5 August 2014
Wolfenstein: The New Order directors give its first level the commentary treatment5 August 2014
Modders rebuilding Morrowind's engine for posterity5 August 2014
Skyrim Online: a broken, bizarre and promising mod.5 August 2014
10,000th Skyrim mod hits Steam5 August 2014
Skywind mod brings Morrowind to Skyrim5 August 2014
This Skyrim mod brings the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Tamriel5 August 2014
19-year old would-be game designer creates 25 hour Skyrim campaign to grab Bethesda’s attention5 August 2014
Skyrim mod enchants Morrowind with 2011-era graphics5 August 2014
"What does it take to kill this monster?" Meet Thomas the Tank Engine, scourge of Skyrim5 August 2014
"You are the one from my dreams - but sharper, somehow": meet Skyblivion5 August 2014
Twitch has now played every generation of Pokemon5 August 2014
Get kraken: watch 23 minutes of the monster galumphing about Evolve5 August 2014
Grand Theft Auto IV gets infected with selfies4 August 2014
The Fullbright Company is now just Fullbright; new game in the works4 August 2014
Second extinction: The Stomping Land developer SuperCrit goes quiet 4 August 2014
Thailand's military government stops Tropico 5 release: "This does sound like it could have come from one of El Presidente’s own edicts"4 August 2014
Inclusion in The Sims 4: "You don't want to trivialize somebody's life by making it a gameplay feature"4 August 2014
Battle.net engineer joins Stardock to build new cloud service Tachyon4 August 2014
Gun Monkeys giveaway at its peak was “giving away over 100,000 keys per hour”4 August 2014
Tango Fiesta update brings bosses with the best names4 August 2014
Star Citizen patch 12.5 improves multiplayer and adds flushable toilets4 August 2014
Nvidia Geforce 880 GTX expected to launch this September4 August 2014
Infinity Ward gobble up two of Naughty Dog's best4 August 2014
We don't need to worry about No Man’s Sky's PS4 deal: "We've always had PC in mind"4 August 2014
Post-apocalypse soon: Wasteland 2 delay till September "pretty likely"4 August 2014
Facepunch's arcade shooter won't be called Riftlight, because Trion Worlds' Rift exists4 August 2014
A la cart: Nemesis DLC takes Call of Duty: Ghosts players to the coalface4 August 2014
50 more games Greenlit on Steam; includes Deep Space Settlement and Jotun3 August 2014
Wasteland 2 beta update rebalances weapons and adds "tons of new audio"3 August 2014
Watch this: a stunning fan-made recap of the 2014 Dota 2 International2 August 2014
Awesomenauts patch 2.6b ditches loadouts in favour of a "big ass shop"2 August 2014
Stardock's annual customer report reveals 94% buy digital; states "retail is dead"2 August 2014
Toxikk's debut trailer says no to the modern FPS; go and "frag like it's 1999"2 August 2014
Blizzard's kicked artifacts to the curb in Heroes of the Storm1 August 2014
Seldon Crisis: a space sandbox MMO that isn't EVE Online1 August 2014
I love lamp: unlock lamps for The Sims 4 by owning The Sims 31 August 2014
Epigenesis launches today: get your fill of future sports without risky time travel 1 August 2014
Sacred 3 PC review1 August 2014
Modder snatches away Thief: Deadly Shadows' loading screens1 August 2014
Rust devs Facepunch have prototyped "tennis crossed with Street Fighter", named it Deuce1 August 2014
Crytek USA will stop making games, ship Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age off to Frankfurt1 August 2014
Colin McRae Rally "returns to PC" - but it's been a bumpy ride1 August 2014
Call of Duty: Ghosts Nemesis DLC reimagines smallest-ever CoD map: Shipment1 August 2014
Divinity: Original Sin review1 August 2014
Company of Heroes 2: The Western Front Armies review1 August 2014
Tropico 5 review1 August 2014
Wargame: Red Dragon review1 August 2014