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Notes from the Diablo III class panel

Posted Oct 10th 2008 11:30PM by Daniel Whitcomb
Filed under: Action, RPG, Survival horror, Diablo III

Hello from Anaheim! The first of the Diablo III panels for the day, the class panel, just let out. There's a lot of juicy details to report, including on the newest class, the Wizard. So let's get to it.

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Saints Row 2 trailer welcomes you back to Stilwater

Posted Oct 10th 2008 8:30PM by Steven Wong
Filed under: Downloads, Action, Adventure, Trailers

Ruthless gangs as diverse as the ones found in Saints Row 2 all have their squabbles, but at least they can all come together to face a foe greater than themselves: the city police.

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Steam update: Peggle weekend sale, new Ubisoft games and more

Posted Oct 10th 2008 8:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Action, Casual, Far Cry 2

It's been a busy week for the stock market, most of it bad. Thankfully the folks at Valve know that everyone appreciates a sale and this weekend's game on sale via Steam is the original Peggle title from Popcap. The casual arcade game is normally $9.99 but you can grab it for just $4.99 this weekend. The sequel, Peggle Nights, will be released on Steam on Oct. 15

That's not all that's gone on at Steam, however. The download service just added a number of older Ubisoft games to its line-up, including both expansion packs for Heroes of Might and Magic V, The Settlers: Rise of an Empire Gold Edition, The Sum of All Fears and Brain Spa. All of these games are 10 percent off their normal prices on Steam until Oct. 17. You can also pre-order Far Cry 2 via Steam and get $5 off its normal price until its release on Oct. 22.

You want more? How about that World of Goo, the award winning indepdent puzzle/construction game from the two man dev team called 2D Boy, will make its worldwide debut via Steam Oct. 13? Pre-orders for the game are being taken for $19.99 and the Steam version will contain achievements via Steamworks. Finally, pre-orders are being taken for Egosoft's X3: Terran Conflict, the space trading-combat game. The release has now been confirmed for Oct. 17.

Diablo 3 trailers call in the Wizard class

Posted Oct 10th 2008 5:30PM by Steven Wong
Filed under: Downloads, Action, RPG, Trailers, Video, Diablo III

It was revealed at Blizzcon 2008 that the Wizard class will be making a return in Diablo 3. These videos show first looks at how the class will play in the upcoming, highly anticipated, action RPG. The gameplay trailers are a little show plenty of action and powerful spells.

Download HD Diablo 3 Wizard Trailer (86 MB)
Download HD Diablo 3 Wizard Gameplay Trailer #1 (41 MB)
Download HD Diablo 3 Wizard Gameplay Trailer #2 (65 MB)
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New Diablo III screenshots show off the Wizard

Posted Oct 10th 2008 4:30PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Action, RPG, Screenshots, Diablo III

BlizzCon is well underway but Blizzard hasn't forgotten those that can't attend. The official web site for Diablo III has just been updated with info and new screenshots of the just revealed third player class, The Wizard. The screenshots show only the female form of the class; the male version apparently is being kept under wraps.

The dozen and one screenshots show off the wizard dealing some damage with various powers and are among the best looking shots yet released for the game as the character is shown using several of her various powers. Again, stay tuned as our team will be giving hands-on impressions of the game later this weekend.

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Feature: Virtual Bargain Bin: BioShock and GTA

Posted Oct 10th 2008 4:00PM by David Craddock
Filed under: Features, Action, Driving, FPS, Opinion, Fighting

Big Download's Virtual Bargain Bin

Congratulations, soldier: you survived another week. It's Friday afternoon, and instead of going out partying with your friends, you're anxious to get home, sit down at your computer, and play some new games. Sounds fun! Too bad you're broke. Lucky for you, PC gaming has an impressive library of classic games that are available online for cheap. Hang out with us every Friday so we can take you on a guided tour of some of the greatest bargains available throughout the many tubes of the Internet.

Welcome Big Download's Virtual Bargain Bin, the cure for your weekend gaming woes. This week's classics: BioShock and the Grand Theft Auto Collection.

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Watch a Far Cry 2 map made in under 5 minutes

Posted Oct 10th 2008 3:30PM by Steven Wong
Filed under: Downloads, Action, FPS, Video, Far Cry 2

This video demonstrates the use of the Far Cry 2 map building tools. A user creates an entire level with incredible detail. Time is sped up so that an hour's work is shown in under five minutes.

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Prince of Persia trailer roof runs across TGS

Posted Oct 10th 2008 2:30PM by Steven Wong
Filed under: Downloads, Action, Trailers

Prince of Persia gets a little mellow at the 2008's Tokyo Game Show. This trailer shows off the gameplay, special abilities and a little combat from the upcoming action game. For those who are curious, the music playing in the background is "Breathe Me" by Sia. The game is scheduled to release this winter on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

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New Diablo III playable class: The Wizard

Posted Oct 10th 2008 1:30PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Action, RPG, Diablo III

BlizzCon 2008 has open their doors at the Anaheim Convention Center and at least one major bit of news concerning Blizzard's upcoming action-RPG Diablo III has been revealed; the third playable class called The Wizard. The first word of the new class comes from our sister site Joystiq.

The Wizard's description? "A wielder of the elements and a master manipulator of time, the wizard can hurl environment-shattering lightning bolts, channel explosive arcane energies, and create pockets of space outside the normal temporal flow." It joins the previously announced Witch Doctor and Barbarian classes with two more still to be revealed (although a photo of a game screen at Joystiq shows the visuals of all three classes). Stay tuned as our own BlizzCon team plans to post up their own impressions of Diablo III this weekend from the event.

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Fallout 3 TGS 2008 trailer shows off the American way of life

Posted Oct 10th 2008 12:30PM by Steven Wong
Filed under: Downloads, Action, RPG, Trailers, Fallout 3

This trailer for Fallout 3 shown at the Tokyo Game Show 2008 demonstrates what the post apocalyptic American life is all about. Guns, explosions and exploding mutants.

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Fallout 3

Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included in Fallout 3 is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters. Every minute is a fight for survival against the terrors of the outside world-radiation, super mutants, and hostile mutated creatures. (Screenshot 1 of 81)

New Spider-Man: Web of Shadows screenshots show off new characters

Posted Oct 10th 2008 11:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Action, Screenshots

Activision's latest Spider-Man game Web of Shadows is only a few weeks away from being released and today the developer sent over a boarload of new screenshots that introduce some of the other Marvel Universe based characters that will make an apperance in the open world action game.

Two of Spider-Man's big villains are included in these shots; the shocking (hehe) Electro and the massive Rhino. The sexy Russian superspy Black Widow (who is non-superpowered by the way) also makes an appearance in the game. The oddest new character is Moon Knight, the mysterious Egyptian based hero that gains strenght by how full the Moon is. The Treyarch-Shaba Games developed title is due out this November.

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Bionic Commando trailer shows off its stuff at TGS

Posted Oct 10th 2008 10:30AM by Steven Wong
Filed under: Downloads, Action, Adventure, Trailers

This trailer for Bionic Commando, shown at the Tokyo Game Show 2008 shows off gameplay, a number of special moves, and a lot of guys getting pummeled in the face.

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Proposed V remake to include game aspect

Posted Oct 10th 2008 10:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Culture, Action

If you are old as dirt like we are you may remember the great 1983 mini-series V, a sci-fi allegory of the Nazis rise to power in the form of aliens called the Vistoros. They said they came to Earth wanting peace but they turned out to be lizards who want to eat us and take our water. The mini-series spawned a sequel and a short lived TV series but remains one of the most admired sci-fi TV efforts.

Now Variety has word that ABC and Warner Bros. are trying to get a remake of V off the ground. One of the executive producers is none other than Jace Hall, founder of Monolith and former head of Warner Bros. Interactive. He currently is the head of HDFilms (and star of the web series the Jace Hall Show). Variety states that Hall will lead the effort to get the V remake into other platforms, including games. So it may be a matter of time before the Visitors return and appear on your hard drive.

Big Download (with WoW Insider) to cover BlizzCon 2008

Posted Oct 10th 2008 8:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Culture, Action, MMO, RPG, RTS, Meta BD, Starcaft II, World of Warcraft, Diablo III

Yeah, the Tokyo Game Show may be happening right now but that event is almost all console games. The real cool PC cats know that the place to be this weekend is BlizzCon 2008. And we can report that thanks to our friends at our sister site WoW Insider Big Download will have exclusive coverage of the events going on at the Anaheim Convention Center beginning today and ending on Saturday.

Specifically our special WoW Insider correspondents will be covering the non-World of Warcraft games that will be shown at BlizzCon. Yep, that means both Starcraft II and Diablo III will be covered on our site (and it looks like Diablo III will be playable to the public for the first time this weekend). Of course WoW Insider is your best bet for coverage of all of the World of Warcraft related news and events at the event and we want to thank the team for their help in covering BlizzCon for us. It's going to be a very cool couple of days and we hope you stick around for it.

New Tom Clancy's HAWX screenshots buzz the tower

Posted Oct 9th 2008 8:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Action, Screenshots

We may have to wait until the first quarter of 2009 to buzz the tower with this game but thanks to the Tokyo Game Show, Ubisoft has an excuse to give us some new screenshots for Tom Clancy's HAWX, their upcoming near-future flying action game.

The new shots show off some of the very good looking aircraft models in the game include a couple of shots that show off what looks like a revamped version of Air Force One. Of course there's also shots of the advanced fighters and fighter-bombers that the game will have and you can be the pilots can go inverted in a 4 G spin...whatever that means. Hey, it's been a while since we have seen Top Gun.

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