The invasion begins in Eve Incursion trailer
Eve Online’s latest expansion, Incursion, will unleash the Sansha race upon the universe. Many sectors will suffer attacks from huge fleets of the invading aliens, and it’ll be up to Eve Online’s players to fight back against the invading menace. The Sansha are the subject of an epic new trailer, full of scenes of incredi-space pew-pew that Eve does so well. That trailer is embedded below.
World of Warcraft changes forever tomorrow; the Cataclysm is here
The 4.0.3a patch is scheduled to hit World of Warcraft in the next 24 hours, bringing with it the long prophesised destruction of Azeroth. This is very good news: from tomorrow (Wednesday in the UK), you’ll be able to play most of the new content before World of Warcraft: Cataclysm’s release date of December 7th. If you’ve been thinking of coming back to WoW, now is the perfect time; you’ll get to see most of what’s new to Catacylsm, even on a free trial. Read on for a full list of what’s hitting the servers tomorrow.
How to get to the best killing spots in Black Ops multiplayer
The best bit of Black Ops is its online play, and the worst bit of that is getting shot in the back of the head by someone hiding in a spot you didn’t know you could get to. Now that Treyarch have improved the freezes and lag for many of us (it’s fine on my machine now), it’d be nice to be the guy doing the back-of-the-head shooting rather than the back-of-the-head getting-shot-in.
Enter redditor Haggle, who’s been putting together a great series of clips that show you where to climb, run and jump to get to some of Black Ops’ most inaccessible and surprising places. Some of these jumps also show you alternate routes to sniper holes, so you can surprise the camping twat on a ten kill rampage by bursting in through the window and throwing a tomahawk into his spine. Here are the most useful jumps on six maps.
Annual Desert Bus charity drive is underway
Desert Bus is a rubbish game about driving a bus from Arizona to Las Vegas. You have to drive in real time, and your speed is limited to 45 miles per hour. It takes eight hours to complete the trip. The game can’t be paused and you can’t just tape down a key because the bus cruelly veers slightly to the right the whole time. As part of the annual Desert Bus for Hope event, a team of gamers have challenged themselves to play the game in 24 hour shifts for charity.
Fresh clues emerge for new Bioware game
Last week Bioware released a string of mysterious clues ahead of the announcement of their new game at the Spike TV Video Game Awards. Adding to the teaser trailer and the two cryptic images released through Twitter, Bioware posted another cryptic clue on Facebook implying that the new game might have something to do with the Secret Intelligence Service, better known as the British intelligence agency, MI6.
8 funniest Call of Duty: Black Ops kills
Call of Duty: Black Ops has only been out for a few weeks, but thousands and thousands of multiplayer kills have been made, many of which are hilarious. From incredible tomahawk shots to claymore faceplants, no mistake goes unnoticed thanks to the Call of Duty: Black Ops theatre mode. Here’s a selection of eight of the most absurd kills recorded so far.
Crap Shoot: Leather Goddesses of Phobos
Richard Cobbett spends a quiet evening investigating an army of psychopathic ladies who want more than just your planet. People of Earth: Phobos needs talcum powder!
Let’s be honest, the main reason that anyone remembers Leather Goddesses of Phobos is because it’s called Leather Goddesses of Phobos. Here’s a list of game names from 1986. Alex Higgins’ World Snooker. Chessmaster 2000. Karateka. Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter. Leather Goddesses of Phobos. Tank Wars. Be honest. Which of those would have jumped out at you on a games shelf back then? It definitely wouldn’t have hurt that it was written by Infocom, then-Princes of the text adventure genre, or was written by the main guy behind both the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy game (which was awful, incidentally, no matter how rose-tinted your glasses) and A Mind Forever Voyaging (which was utterly brilliant, and we’ll be looking at in this column at some point). This was pre-Leisure Suit Larry too, when the mere idea of a game including (*whisper*) sex seemed daring and new. For many people, the Leather Goddesses of Phobos would be their first time… at least with a computer.
PLEASE NOTE: You must be 18 or over to read this week’s Crap Shoot. Don’t you dare read on if you’re not! Your young mind is not ready for the thrilling sexy adventures that await you!
The Minecraft Experiment, day 2: The Dark
When I first started playing Minecraft a few months back, I played with a rule: if I die, I have to delete the entire world. This is the second entry in the diary I kept of that experiment, the first is here.
The Minecraft Experiment, day 1: Chasing Waterfalls
When I first started playing Minecraft a few months back, I played with a rule: if I die, I have to delete the entire world. This is the diary I kept of that experiment.
I ignored the game entirely when it was a purely creative toy – yeah, yeah, people made amazing stuff. I’m amazed. I’ve been amazed so often now that I’m in a permanent state of maze, and it would take someone building a working time machine in Zuma Deluxe to un- and subsequently re-maze me. But when it added a health bar, suddenly I was interested. I can die? I love to die! I’m there.
Impulse throws Thanksgiving sale, STALKER bundle going for $9.99
Impulse are holding a massive Thanksgiving winter sale, with many games selling for half price or less. The standout deal is the STALKER bundle, which comes with the original STALKER: Shadow of Chenobryl and the recent STALKER: Call of Pripyat, going for just under ten dollars. Check out the full list below.
Poker Night at the Inventory is out on Monday
Telltale’s Poker Night at the Inventory, a poker game starring Team Fortress 2′s Heavy and Penny Arcade’s Tycho, among others, is set to launch on Monday. The game gives players the opportunity to win a series of exclusive items for TF2, and there’s a poker hat for the Heavy going as a preorder bonus. The game will be $5 at launch, but can be pre-ordered now for $4.50 on Steam. Head here for an overview of the items on offer, and here for the trailer.
Indie charity socks sell for over ten thousand dollars
Last week we mentioned that an ebayer had knitted some socks adorned with images of indie game heroes, and was selling them on the online auction service for charity. When he learned that one pair of socks starred the hero of VVVVVV, captain Veridian, the game’s creator offered every bidder free copy of the game. The bid exploded.
Hundreds die in new Kingdom Under Fire 2 footage
Kingdom Under Fire 2 casts you as a super powered warrior on a huge battlefield populated by hundreds of enemies. Your objective is to defeat them in spectacular hack and slash combat, using siege weapons to break down walls, take strategically important points and ultimately slay their generals. It’s bears many similarities to the Dynasty Warriors series, but it comes with an online component that lets hundreds of players wage war against each other. There’s a brand new trailer, embedded below. It’s quite good.
Guild Wars free Hearts of the North update is out
Guild Wars has recently kicked off a series of free updates in the run up to the release of Guild Wars 2, setting up some of the major characters and factions of the Guild Wars universe. The second update, Hearts of the North, has just been released, and it asks players to help reunite two legendary heroes and help them tie the knot. To celebrate, there are also a number of wedding outfits on sale in the store. Read on for more details.
10 top tips from Team Fortress 2 professionals
Team Fortress 2 isn’t entirely about hats. Somewhere within is a game you can be good at. Some people are better than others. TCM Gaming have been sitting at the top of nearly every professional TF2 gaming league for the past few years, and as such they’ve managed to accumulate a vast sum of knowledge on how to not get yourself stabbed in the back, headshotted, blown up with a cluster of stickybombs, or killed by a sentry gun over, and over, and over again. They explain exactly what to do, and what not to do, below.
