Focus Shifts To New Red River Trailer

Codemasters have released a new video of Operation Flashpoint: Red River called ‘Shifting Focus’ which shows off some more gameplay, but mainly focuses on the narrative behind the game and explains how the Marines must adapt to a rapidly escalating combat situation. The video shows Marines in Tajikistan as they take on the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China in what has become a far more dangerous flashpoint than first imagined after initially embarking on a campaign to quell a destabilising insurgency that threatens American interests.

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Dead Space 2 Meets Dragon Age II

It’s nice when two studios get together to mix content and especially when it combines two of the biggest games this year (so far), Dragon Age II and Dead Space 2. When you’re done dismembering necromorphs, don’t forget to take the fight into Dragon Age II. Visceral Games and BioWare are working together to bring two of the year’s most highly anticipated action/adventure games together.

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Merry Xmas, Happy New Year and a Free Game From EA [Updated]

I also posted this on my blog, but it applies to both sites since it’s possible I won’t post on either before Jan 1st… Now, I’m not sure how long this will last for and I think it’s for UK only, but EA are giving away Burnout™ Paradise: The Ultimate Box for absolutely £0 and 00p. Yes, you read right, £0.00 a.k.a. FREE! Click on http://bit.ly/g8wBAu and thouest shall receiveth. [Update] Burnout Paradise is now £2.49, if you use the code ‘o3gfubinq’ at the checkout, you can save even more…

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The Video Game Awards 2010 Results

The results of the Spike Video Game Awards 2010 are: GAME OF THE YEAR Winner: Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar Games / Rockstar San Diego) Losers: Call of Duty: Black Ops, God of War III, Halo: Reach, Mass Effect 2 STUDIO OF THE YEAR Winner: BioWare Losers: Blizzard Entertainment, Bungie Studios, Rockstar San Diego BEST XBOX 360 GAME Winner: Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts / BioWare) Losers: Alan Wake, Fable III, Halo: Reach BEST PS3 GAME Winner: God of War III (Sony Computer Entertainment / SCE Studios Santa Monica) Losers: Heavy…

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Are You An Online Business Tycoon?

Business Tycoon Online is to launch today at 6:30 pm (PST, which is Tuesday 2:30 am GMT) that’s a fun, business based game which puts the players in the shoes of a aspiring entrepreneur, who manage the Company and build their economy to be on top of the Business world. Lekool are the China based online developers and publishers that are bringing you BTO in the West, so that gamers in the US and Europe can start a business, with the overall goal of becoming a public company and being…

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World of Tanks Site Invades Europe

Image via Wikipedia The popularity of World of Tanks is growing so much, that Wargaming.net has been localized into six European countries – France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Poland and Spain, meaning gamers from those countries won’t have to struggle reading English or using something like Google Translate when accessing the site. “We are extremely happy to see that more and more audiences are attracted by our project” says Nick Katselapov, producer of the game. “We are on the way to meet the large international interest in World of Tanks by…

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Joe Has A Mafia Adventure For You

Gamers of Mafia II (and pretty much everyone else since this is late news) can download a third installment of downloadable content called Joe’s Adventures for all versions of the game PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Since this is late news, let me just pretty much quote most of this straight from the press release… You play as Joe Barbaro who goes on the rampage to uncover the traitor who betrayed Vito in Empire Bay, with Joe’s brash personality, it’s reflected in his unique sense of style and flare…

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Third Alien Breed Descends Into View

Team17 announced that Alien Breed 3: Descent has launched onto Steam and Xbox Live Arcade for £6.99 and 800 MS Points respectively to finish off the trilogy. “The third and final installment, Alien Breed 3: Descent, marks a climatic end to a trilogy of which we are extremely proud”, says Paul Dunstan, Senior Designer at Team17 Software Ltd. “Amongst the fearsome new aliens and goliath bosses to battle, the environment itself will challenge how you compete for survival; from the turbulently violent space station’s exterior hull, to the rapidly flooding…

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Not An Orange Odyssey Then?

Image via CrunchBase Aeria Games has announced a new addition to its free-to-play list of online games, Lime Odyssey that is the first game to be created by Sirius Entertainment and is scheduled to have a closed beta around the middlw of 2011. “Aeria Games is excited to be working with Sirius Entertainment on the launch of Lime Odyssey,” said Lan Hoang, CEO of Aeria Games. “The Sirius team has, for the last few years, poured their hearts and souls into the development of Lime Odyssey and the final result…

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APB’s APB Received

Image via CrunchBase When all hope was lost after Realtime Worlds went into administration and chances of APB disappearing forever before it had a chance to really take off, rumours of someone buying APB were going around a few days later, now there’s no need for rumours due to Reloaded Productions, Inc. aquiring the IP rights. “We are obviously very happy to have concluded the sale but at the same time very much regret the loss of jobs as a result of the closure of Realtime Worlds,” said Paul Dounis…

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