Avalanche certainly appears to have taken criticisms of the first game on board. There’s no more auto-targeting, for starters; you’re now free to aim at will, and come up with new and creative ways of shooting anyone and everything. Plus you get a new, improved grappling hook to play with....

Tim Schafer’s latest game takes place in a pick-and-mix fantasy world culled from a thousand different heavy metal album covers. A love letter to the enduring appeal of chrome, valkyries, ramshackle skeletons and the artistic potential of a well-handled air brush, it’s a gnarly, frightening...

Remedy Entertainment “is still here” and wants us to know that Alan Wake is still very much in development. “We feel we owe you all a small heads-up, and our apologies for lack of updates,” said Mika Reini, CFO of Remedy, on the official forums. “We’re still here and...

Let’s start with the hardest question to answer. Is APB (All Points Bulletin), the new online game from the makers of Crackdown, an MMO? Each copy of APB’s San Paro – a contemporary, crime-ridden city, a violent playground for gangs of cops and robbers – will host 100 players. By the...

It will be released on 17th November, and, thanks to our pals at Valve, we now know plenty about Left 4 Dead 2. Valve’s second stab (and bludgeon) at the multiplayer zombie FPS spans five new campaigns in the Southern USA, from Savannah to New Orleans. Left 4 Dead 2 promises a stronger narrative arc...