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Tying together the events between “No Mercy” and “Death Toll”, a new Left 4 Dead campaign entitled “Crash Course” is set to hit the intertubes in September. The campaign of course will work as single player, multiplayer, and versus content. In addition to bringing just a new campaign, there will be more dialogue from the […] Add comment
Recently in videogaming we have seen the terrible decline of the Expansion Pack and the triumphant rise of Downloadable Content. Downloadable Content (DLC) is a fairly new phenomenon and like most newcomers to the industry is still walking on unsure footing with wobbly legs. We’re going to take a look at a couple working models […] Add comment
Icrontic is in New Orleans to bring you the latest from the 2009 ACM SIGGRAPH conference. SIGGRAPH is the mecca of conferences focusing on computer graphics and interactive techniques. The biggest names in film, video games, and graphics hardware will be there showing off their latest technologies, bleeding edge works in progress, and showing how […] Add comment
Ubisoft just sent out this video of highlights from the Assassin’s Creed 2 panel at Comic-Con. They show off some features here that they didn’t cover at E3. You can ignore Ubisoft’s pretend newscaster. Add comment
Available for download this week, we find Fat Princess for PS3. This wacky take on capture the flag pits teams of up to 16 players against each other online in a class-based battle to rescue their princess from the opposite tower. The princess has become fat in her captivity however, and it will require the […] Add comment
Today at ComicCon, Valve introduced a new special infected for Left 4 Dead 2 called the Spitter. The Spitter has “an area attack that can split up Survivors or flush them out of their hiding spots” according to the press release. In addition to the Spitter, they announced a new “uncommon common” infected exclusive to […] Add comment
Today an astute TF2 fan happened to catch a slip-up on his phone’s RSS reader, and quickly grabbed a screenshot before Valve took the post back down. Seeing as how much we love you here at Icrontic, I took the liberty to turn it into text and OCR it so that it would be easier […] Add comment
Blizzard announced today that they have brought Sam Raimi (director of the Spiderman movies) on board to direct an upcoming tale of Horde vs. Alliance on the big screen, with a big Hollywood budget. Of course, the speculation begins now. Will Sam Raimi’s previous translations of fantasy worlds to the big screen serve the Warcraft […] Add comment
We could make some snarky comment about how this video could possibly have come into existence but instead of pondering the ontologically frustrating little idea we’d much rather marvel at how much win it contains. Add comment
As we’ve been browsing our CG RSS feeds, hanging out on the forums and watching the Twitters we saw two training sites get mentioned more than once this week and we thought they’d be worth checking out for our readers participating in game mods or thinking about testing those waters. While neither one of these […] Add comment
Today EA Games announced the release date of Pandemic’s The Saboteur as December 8, 2009; just in time for the last minute holiday rush. When Lynx and I got to play it last month, the game was pre-alpha, and there were definitely lots of bugs. Having met some of the dev team, however, I know […] Add comment
Bruckheimer makes a 3D movie, but now they’ve got all these guinea pig models sitting around not doing anything, so I guess it’s time for G-Force: The Video Game. In this gadget-centric third-person adventure game, evil household appliances are trying to take over the world, and Darwin of G-Force and his companion Mooch the housefly […] Add comment
Like it or not, the Holiday season is approaching. It’s the time of year where gamers look at empty wallets while high profile games hit the shelves one after another. This year will be no different, but word on the street says that the release crunch just got a bit lighter. PS3 gamers will be […] Add comment
Another month, another TF2 blog update on the 15th. This time, the Soldier is at it again, offering users TF2 class avatars to add to their Steam User account. The photos are nice and the writing is up to par with what you’d expect, but insight is a little thin this time. At ease, you […] Add comment
And finally we get to talk about it! During E3, UPSLynx and I got whisked off to the Pandemic Studios offices in Westwood to get hands-on time with The Saboteur. After being briefed a bit on the story and current progress, the Xbox 360 dev kit was fired up, and yours truly got to be […] Add comment
On WiiWare this week Ant Nation will be available for download. This game has players manage and experiment with an ant colony, a la SimAnt. Fight spiders, avoid bug spray, make the ants happy, and build them a home. Afterward you can kill all your new friends with hammers and magnifying glasses. The companion version […] Add comment
Valve revealed the first playable campaign for Left 4 Dead 2 at E3 2009, which was called “The Parish”. Today they announced that the second campaign, titled “Swamp Fever” will be playable at Comic Con 2009 next week. Whereas The Parish takes place in a ruined New Orleans, Swamp Fever looks to take place in… […] Add comment
There’s been a cute trend lately. Game publishers are using Twitter to give away codes for downloads of games. It seems like a good idea–follow our Twitter stream, see what we have to say, and eagerly hang on our every tweet until we release a magical code for Steam, PSN, or Xbox live. When the […] Add comment
In Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled, players will find themselves in a classic RPG setting and plot that hearkens back to days of 8-bit yore. Guide your hero from city to dungeon to city, picking up new characters, and assembling a three-person team of skilled fighters while locating cool new items, and slowly revealing […] Add comment
The announcement of a new MechWarrior game totally blindsided us today like a well-placed Death from Above strike. It seems Smith & Tinker and Piranha Games are working on a full reboot of the MechWarrior games. For a property that’s changed hands as much as MechWarrior/BattleTech, it’s easy to roll your eyes and pass this […] Add comment
Here are this week’s announced releases, none of which are worth featuring: PS3 The Bigs 2 CID The Dummy (PS2) PSP CID The Dummy The Bigs 2 Wii CID The Dummy The Bigs 2 BIT.TRIP CORE (WiiWare) Heracles Chariot Racing (WiiWare) Tales of Monkey Island (WiiWare) California Games (VC – C64) DS Art Style: BASE […] Add comment
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