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Combining fast-paced first-person shooting with a Diablo-like loot system and the deep character customization of a role-playing game, Gearbox’s Borderlands was a surprisingly sophisticated modernization of Doom-era kill-everything-you-see mayhem, and one of 2009′s most memorable titles. It got even…

Guild Wars 2′s skill system is not a simple one, but thankfully right from the beginning you can hop into a PvP lobby and play around with a level-capped character, testing out skills you might not have a chance to otherwise use for many hours of play through the main game. This PvP character is separate from the one you level through the storyline, and you use it to hop into Conquest battles, which revolve around capture point control…

Aion is going free-to-play this Spring. It may be old news to European readers, but for United States Aion players, this means big changes. The switch is coming with update 3.0, named Aion Ascension. The update will also introduce a player-housing system, mounts, six new instances (plus a new raid),…

The Game: N
Genre: Ridiculous Wall-Jumping Platformer
Platform: PC, Mac, Linux

The Scoop: Quick, raise your hand if you played N+. My best guess is a lot of you are now looking a little silly, with your hand up in the computer lab, office, or other inappropriate-to-have-raised-your-hand…

A couple weeks ago we reported that Amnesia: The Dark Descent developer Frictional Games was working on a new Amnesia game. The teaser website originally displayed a blurry image with the title Amnesia, that directly linked to a Google map of China. Little did we know that this was the beginnings of an ARG that reveal brand new un-blurry art as well as a tentative launch window…

In ShootMania Storm, Ubisoft-owned developer Nadeo is attempting something very ambitious indeed: to take the versatility, accessibility and competitive fun of its acclaimed racer TrackMania and apply those principles to the most saturated of genres, the FPS. In doing so, it hopes to appeal to both the greenest cadet and most grizzled veteran…

Recreating a classic game in a new genre runs an overwhelming risk of failure. Not only must the product satiate fans of the original experience, the new game also needs to stand on its own with successful design choices and innovation. Oftentimes the redo reflects the exact standards and formulas o…

As if MechWarrior Online and MechWarrior: Tactics weren’t enough, another mech game has been announced. Called Reign of Thunder, this is yet another free-to-play mech combat game.

The platforms its being developed for are currently unknown, but, as RockPaperShotgun astutely pointed out, F2P game…

As if MechWarrior Online and MechWarrior: Tactics weren’t enough, another MechWarrior game has been announced. Called Reign of Thunder, this is yet another free-to-play mech combat game.

The platforms its being developed for are currently unknown, but, as RockPaperShotgun astutely pointed out, F…

Based on a weekend of beta testing, it’s clear ArenaNet is building an incredible game. Beautiful, imaginative landscapes stretch in all directions, free of the off-putting copy / paste feel of some virtual worlds. Run through the starting city of the cat-like Charr and you’ll see dark towers twisti…