Marvel’s Avengers Beta (Demo) Impressions

The “beta” (Read; demo) for Crystal Dynamics forthcoming Avengers game was open to everyone to play over the weekend, so I jumped in and spent some time smashing stuff as the Hulk, flying around as Iron-Man, kicking ass as Black Widow and generally avoiding playing as the annoying Kamala Khan as much as possible. With less than a month until the Avengers is out, this demo is our chance to see if we’re going to get an awesome new superhero game that can stand with Marvel’s Spider-Man and the Arkham games.

Crysis 3 Multiplayer Beta Arriving On January 29th

Next month heralds the arrival of the third game in Crytek’s stupidly pretty Crysis series of shooty games, but if you want to get a taste of the multiplayer action a little bit early then you’ll be pleased to know that EA have announced a Crysis 3 multiplayer Beta will be arriving on PC, Xbox…

DiRT Showdown Demo Is Now Available

Codemasters have been hard at work creating a brand new spin-off title of their DiRT series. Titled Showdown, it’s a full-on arcade racer with a penchant for mayhem and destruction. While its big brothers in the main DiRT series focus on a more realistic approach and plenty of rallying, Showdown is all about going big…

Multiplayer Portion Of Mass Effect 3 Demo Will Be Available To Silver Members

As our very own Nick Jones posted, the Mass Effect 3 demo, containing a chunk of both the singleplayer sci-fi epicness and the co-operative online mode, will be upon us shortly, hopefully delighting gamers around the globe. But Silver/free Xbox Live members have been rightfully saddened by the prospect that without Xbox Live Gold they won’t…

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – Demo Impressions

Few games boast quite the all-star development line-up that Alamur does. In all honesty if I had been personally asked to hand-pick a crew of people to work on the next big RPG I’m almost certain I would have picked these exact people, with the minor exception that I would have added Terry Pratchett to the mix, …

Mass Effect 3 Demo Will Drop February 17

Mass Effect 3‘s demo is coming to XBox 360, PS3, and PC on February 17. This demo will not only include part of the single-player mode, but multiplayer as well, and you’ll get to test out the Kinect voice commands! I mean, if you’re into that sort of thing. It’ll take a second’s notice to…

Syndicate 4-Player Co-Op Launching In January

If you’ve been looking at the new Syndicate game being developed by Starbreeze Studios and you don’t hate it for being different from the other Syndicate games, then you might be interested in the upcoming demo. You’ll have the opportunity to play one of the nine co-op missions alongside three other people before the game…

Bethesda Release 20 Minutes Of Skyrim Footage With Commentery

If you should know one thing about me, it’s this; I utterly love the Elder Scrolls series. I’ve wasted countless years of my life exploring the games, living the life and stealing everything that isn’t nailed down in Oblivion. You can imagine, then, that I’m pretty excited about Skyrim. Well, I am, and that means…