Counter Strike: Global Offensive Trailer

Football Manager 2012: First Details Released

Its time to put down Football Manager 2011, I know its hard but there is a good reason for it. Football Manager 2012 is here and its back with a bang! Sports Interactive promises us the “most realistic, immersive and playable football management simulation ever”. They aren’t kidding either with over 800 new features being introduced to the game, this could well be even better than any Football Manager simulation that’s been released before it.

Key new & improved features for Football Manager 2012:
Transfers & Contracts – significant changes to the transfer and contract systems, including loyalty bonuses, better implementation of amateur and youth contracts, an improved transfer centre and the ability to lock areas of the contract negotiation when you aren’t prepared to budge. This helps you to manage your budgets and gives you flexibility in what you offer money hungry players, or agents, as incentives.

Scouting improvements – using several real life scouting reports, a new in-game report has been devised which includes squad analysis, tactics information and information about goals scored and conceded alongside lots of other scouting improvements, giving you all the information you need to prepare before kick-off and throughout the season.

3D Match Improvements – new animations, a whole new crowd system, improved weather system, more stadiums, plus two brand new cameras – “Behind Goal” and “Director Cam” as well as all other camera angles being reversible – meaning you can watch and analyse every aspect of every game.

Manage Anywhere, Anytime – the ability to add or take away playable nations in your saved game as often as you want. Manage in that country at the start of the next season- meaning you don’t have to stay in the nations which are chosen by you to be playable at the start of your career.

Tone – a whole new level has been added to team talks and conversations, with the new tone system, which allows you to specify the way you want to say things – be as cool as a cucumber by saying things calmly or throw tea cups around by saying things with passion. There are 6 different tones to choose from with specific comments per tone.

Intelligent Interface – a new adaptive layout system, which means the higher your screen resolution, the more info is easily at your fingertips. The new interface also contains new filters, customisable columns, a new tactics screen, and lots of new overview screens.

Brand New Tutorial – standing separate from the main game, a mode to help new players find their way around the game easily, whilst also offering tips to experienced managers on how to get the most out of the game, as well as a new in-game “how to” system.

On top of these key innovations, there are lots of areas of the game that have had huge improvements, such as the media system, press conferences, the youth system, newgens, the social networking options, friendlies, international management and many more which will be detailed in a series of video blogs over the coming months, alongside more information about Football Manager 2012.

Are you excited? Well stay tuned because we will have a lot more on Football Manager 2012 within the next few months.

WWE ’12 Roster Announced

The current roster for the next instalment in THQ’s WWE franchise has been announced. The roster currently features sixty wrestlers, although more could appear via DLC. Fans of the series will also get the choice between two different covers, with the Champ’s Edition featuring John Cena and the People’s Edition featuring The Rock.

The current roster is as follows:

John Cena
John Morrison
Ted Dibiase
Mark Henry
Kofi Kingston
William Regal
R-Truth
Husky Harris
Daniel Bryan
Tyson Kidd
Santino Marella
David Otunga
Evan Bourne
Sheamus
Goldust
Cody Rhodes
Zack Ryder
Mason Ryan
HHH
Miz
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Arn Anderson
Ricky Steamboat
Road Warrior Hawk
Road Warrior Animal
Vader
Kevin Nash
Booker T
Eddie Guerrero
Demolition Smash
Demolition Ax
Edge
Eve
Natalya
Maryse
Layla
Michelle McCool
Beth Phoenix
Kelly Kelly
The Rock
Kane
Alex Riley
Alberto Del Rio
Rey Mysterio
Michael McGillicutty
Yoshi Tatsu
Jack Swagger
Big Show
Justin Gabriel
Heath Slater
Dolph Ziggler
Undertaker
Christian
Drew McIntyre
Sin Cara
Mr. McMahon
Ezekiel Jackson
CM Punk
Wade Barrett
Randy Orton

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Borderlands 2 – Screenshots Released

The original Borderlands was runner-up Game of the Year back in 2009, so naturally we’re all looking forward to the sequel. We’ll have to wait until early 2012 for the full release, and maybe a few months for trailers/gameplay etc, but in the meantime, here’s some recently released screenshots.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – Coming To PSN, XBLA And PC

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the third part of the series, has been announced for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, PC. This latest instalment intends to expand the team-based gameplay using new game modes, maps and weapons.

Almost immediately after it’s release in August 1999, the original Counter-Strike became the most played online PC action game in the world. Even after 12 years at the top, it has continued to be one of the most popular games in the world, with the franchise selling over 25 millions copies. The series has also headlined several gaming tournaments across the world, and continues to do so.

The game is due for release in early 2012, meaning that eager fans would have waited 8 years for a sequel toCounter-Strike: Source, which was released back in 2004.

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Far Cry 3: Tropic Thunder Screenshots Released

Ubisoft have released new screenshots from the eagerly anticipated Far Cry 3. The extremely detailed and diverse environment is one of the biggest attractions to the game. Far Cry 3 is due for release in Febuary 2012.

Check out these screenshots. Below is also the official gameplay trailer from E3 2011.

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Metal Gear Solid HD Collection Gets More Content

At E3 earlier this year, Konami announced the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection would be launched for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. The bundle would include Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3 and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

Metal Gear Solid HD Collection launches later this year

But as from today Hideo Kojima has revealed exactly which versions of the games will be included, more specifically Metal Gear Solid 3 will be the Subsistence edition which added an online mode, and the ability to control the games camera with the right analog stick. Since the Subsistence edition of Metal Gear Solid 3 also includes the original Metal Gear (not Metal Gear Solid) and Metal Gear 2 games, in emulated form, this means gamers will be getting a lot more for their money than previously thought.

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Origin Required To Play Battlefield 3

With Sivi our “General PC Gamer” I thought it was best I wrote this story with as little biased opinion on how ridiculous EA have been about unleashing there new service Origin otherwise there will be very little information and just down right disgusting language, so here we go.

EA has announced that in order to play Battlefield 3 on the PC, you will be required to obtain there heavily pushed service Origin. With EA unwilling to release the game on Steam due to restrictions, it seems this is just another step in the ongoing war between themselves and Valve. DICE’S Community Manager Daniel Martos had this to say ”Origin will be required in order to play Battlefield 3 if the game is bought in retail. We don’t know whether this is true if the game is downloaded through a digital download service other than Origin, but we suspect Origin will be required no matter what.”

During Battlefield 3′s Alpha trial is was also suggested that Origin was sapping CPU power whilst running the game, although EA has said they are working on resolving this issue.

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Google + Are Coming! Announces New Games Service

Here comes the big boys. It seems whatever Google wants, they get, so Facebook must be frantically looking over there shoulder when it was announced that Google Plus has rolled out its brand new games service with the creative title Google Plus Games. Okay so maybe its not that creative but you can be sure that with Google at the helm of such a powerful creation, this could not only take over Facebook but destroy it. Maybe it is a bit to soon to make such suggestions with the limited time frame Google Plus has been about but its a fair suggestion at that.

There has only been 16 games announced for the service but that does not mean the quality isn’t there. Facebook favourites Zynga Poker, Bejeweled Blitz and Angry Birds will all feature with a bucket load more to be announced in the future. Games have become a big part of Facebook in recent years with 40 year old mums having to find something to do in the day time whilst there little terrors are running around causing havoc, so it makes sense that Google would enter the party when it comes to this. Although just because the search engine giants have acquired these new games, don’t expect them to force you to play them. Google have made it very clear that they are offering this as an extra to Google Plus, when you want to play them then they are there, when you don’t, they are gone.

Google are coming and they mean business.

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Nintendo Patents Massively Single-Playing Online Games

Nintendo has always been a bit cautious when it comes to online gaming, with the DS and Wii both using the hugely unpopular ‘Friend Code’ system. While the 3DS still uses a form of the Friend Code system, gamers can instead add friends locally via Wi-Fi.

This is due to Nintendo not wanting people to have their gaming experience ruined by those unruly gamers pent on annoying others. This may be why Nintendo has filed a patent for a new type of game, a Massively SINGLE-playing Online Game.

This new type of game aims to offer all the benefits of a massive online community but without actually dealing with the people themselves. The idea being that player’s actions will change and affect the gameplay for all players, but the players will never actually meet one another.

Sesame Street Once Upon a Monster Debut Trailer

I don’t care how old you are, you will be buying this game. The debut trailer for Double Fine’s Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster was released yesterday, showing you how you or your little ones can enjoy the wonderful adventure with Cookie Monster, Elmo and apparently a perverted dad watching you from behind, weird.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Adam’s Quest Trailer

New to the Deus Ex franchise and need to get up to speed on the world? Then this video is perfect for you. The video, courtesy of Machinima.com, really gives you an insight into what it’s like to be involved in a Deus Ex game and I have to say watching that back I felt a little nostalgic for the first title.