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In this new video from Ubisoft, gamers can watch pirate and assassin Captain Edward Kenway silently stalk his enemies across cities, rooftops and jungles as stealth is back with a renewed focus in Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag featuring new gameplay mechanics, features and weapons such as the lethal blowpipe. Read the rest of this entry »

The Year of Luigi is going strong. So far, Luigi has explored multiple haunted mansions in Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon for Nintendo 3DS, partnered up with his brother in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, also for Nintendo 3DS, and taken the Wii U downloadable content world by storm in New Super Luigi U. Nintendo has announced that on August 25th, New Super Luigi U will be available as a packaged-disc version for Wii U that will be sold in retail stores. The game joins the downloadable version available in the Nintendo eShop on Wii U. Read the rest of this entry »

According to Romance Writers of America, more than 74 million people read romance novels each year. Most of them are women. Independent Vancouver game studio Silicon Sisters invites these women to try something new: playing a romance on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.  The newly released romance game Everlove is now available worldwide on the iTunes App Store. Everlove stars a young woman named Rose who has turned to past-life regression in order to gain insight into her personal problems. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are the basic facts and features for the upcoming Batman: Arkham Origins from WB Games Montréal (multiplayer by Splash Damage). According to the game’s release date, I have two months to finish Batman: Arkham Asylum (about 50% complete) and Batman: Arkham City, which I haven’t even opened yet. Read the rest of this entry »

Independent game development studio Red Barrels announced today that its highly anticipated – and widely feared – survival horror game Outlast is now available for pre-order on Steam. Starting today through the PC launch on September 4, 2013, gamers who pre-order Outlast will receive a 20 percent discount off of the $19.99 price. Read the rest of this entry »

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment have unveiled a new trailer for Batman™: Arkham Origins at gamescom in Cologne. Titled Nowhere to Run, the trailer showcases the indomitable super villains hell-bent on taking down the Bat and gives a first look at Firefly, one of the eight assassins featured in Batman: Arkham Origins, capable of raining fire from above. Read the rest of this entry »

Today at the Sony Computer Entertainment press conference at Gamescom, Ubisoft® announced that its film and television division, Ubisoft Motion Pictures, is collaborating with Sony Pictures Entertainment and New Regency on development of a feature film based on Watch Dogs™, Ubisoft’s highly anticipated open-world action-adventure video game. Ubisoft and Sony also showed a first look at the exclusive Watch Dogs gameplay that will be available for PlayStation®4 later this year. In the trailer, discover DedSec, the most famous hacker group in the universe of Watch_Dogs and hear their message of truth: “The ctOS system is flawed, it is time to wake up!” Read the rest of this entry »

Today at gamescom EA Sports™ unveiled the first ever pre-alpha gameplay footage for the highly anticipated EA Sports UFC, currently in development at the EA Canada campus in Burnaby. Powered by EA Sports Ignite, players will “Feel the Fight”  as the action, emotion, and intensity inside the Octagon™ are brought to life in ways that were never before possible in a video game. The next generation of fighting begins in the Spring of 2014 when  EA Sports UFC is released for the Xbox One^® and the PlayStation^®4. Read the rest of this entry »

Electronic Arts Inc. has announced that EA Sports™ is bringing legendary players such as Pelé, Patrick Vieira, and Ruud Gullit, to FIFA 14 Ultimate Team to the Xbox 360® and Xbox One®. Fans will be able to craft their FIFA 14 Ultimate Team with a mix of legendary players playing alongside today’s stars. Each Legend will have unique attributes that will showcase the skills and flair that made them legendary at the height of their careers, and will be randomly included in Gold Packs in FIFA 14 Ultimate Team beginning with the launch of the Xbox One. The star-studded lineup of football legends revealed today features: Read the rest of this entry »

Developed by Capcom Vancouver and available exclusively for Xbox One this November, Dead Rising 3 is the third installment in the celebrated franchise and introduces a blockbuster open-world action game that will define a new generation of zombie-slaying mayhem. With intense action and an unmatched level of weapon and character customization, Dead Rising 3 delivers a heart-pounding experience unlike any other as you fight for survival in a massive open world teeming with thousands of undead. Read the rest of this entry »