With all the fun we’ve been having with our team-oriented FPS titles lately, we were glad to be able to try a new title which will soon be competing for our assault attentions. Thus, at yesterday’s EA Studio Showcase, we sat down to blast some cartoonish soldiers in Battlefield Heroes, the new “casual” incarnation of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 13, 2008
UPDATE 8/15: Valve has published the full list of the Heavy’s Achievements, and our contest is now closed! Look for our analysis and winner announcement soon! Valve put up a list, this morning, of the 35 new achievements that will become available in next week’s Heavy Update. The official website lists only the names of the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 22, 2008
We were just about to leave the show floor at E3 2008 for a private appointment, but saw something beautiful out of the corner of our eye. Rain, thick and as realistic as we’d ever seen, was completely drenching a gritty, war-torn world just the other side of a large LCD screen. We had to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 16, 2008
GameCyte had the opportunity to stop by Valve Software’s booth at E3 2008, and escape the humid hellscape of Los Angeles long enough to enter the rotting hellscape of Left 4 Dead. We got some hands-on play experience with Valve’s upcoming co-op horror game, and spent the better part of half an hour trying desperately [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Valve's Erik Johnson tells us all about zombies, pyros, and building multiplayer franchises in our in-depth E3 interview.
Continue reading...Monday, July 14, 2008
EA’s Press Conference at this year’s E3 saw demos and trailers of a number of long-announced titles, but that certainly didn’t mean there wasn’t room for breaking news and new stuff. EA’s John Riccitello spoke very briefly about the growing EA Partners program before announcing the newest studio to join the fold: FPS innovators and violence [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 16, 2008
Team Fortress 2 updates, incoming! Tomorrow: The latest in the new “Meet the Team” animated shorts will arrive. “Meet the Sniper” drops at 11am Pacific Time. Thursday: TF2 gets the Pyro Update, including three new unlockable weapons and 35 achievements for everyone’s favorite unintelligible immolation enthusiast. Friday: Fire free-for-all! Literally, it’s free for all. Steam will host [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 16, 2008
Though we’ve known since late April that Crytek would begin developing titles for multiple platforms, it never crossed our minds — not for a second — that the team responsible for lush, tropical videogames that eat state of the art videocards whole might find themselves creating a portable title. But unless June 16th is the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 30, 2008
GameCyte goes hands-on with Nexon’s first free-to-play first-person shooter. Our impressions.
Continue reading...Thursday, May 22, 2008
Need an update here! Need an update here! Need an update here! Shacknews managed to get a few words out of Valve’s Doug Lombardi, who spoke briefly about seeing the recent Team Fortress 2 updates appear on the Xbox 360 version of the Orange Box bundle. Previously only available in the PC version, TF2 has [...]
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Friday, August 15, 2008
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