Assassin's Creed 3 won't hit PC until late November, but you can play a slice of it right now. Well, at least a video choose your own adventure slice of it. It's 1775 and the Battle of Bunker Hill is underway. There's no need to wait to see the whites of the Redcoats' eyes in this interactive trailer, just select how you'd like to unleash Connor on your unfortunate foes and watch him go.
Note to indie developers: if you're depending on building a community around your multiplayer game at launch, it's a really, really bad idea to release it just as the holiday flood of big new games begins. Post-apocalyptic shooter Ravaged did just that, and as a result the promising Road Warrior-style shooter is struggling due to a severe lack of players -- even with free demoers currently mixed in with paid customers.
Imagine for a moment that you're a professional baseball player. With each pitch, you read the man throwing it. You see the way he grips the ball, the spin when it leaves his hand, the speed at which it's coming to the plate, its future trajectory. You know everything there is to know about that ball. Playing Mark of the Ninja makes me feel like that batter, but instead of swatting homers, I'm stabbing suckers in the throat.
For a combat flight simulation that began as a passion project developed by the same Eagle Dynamics team that gave us DCS: Ka-50 Black Shark and A-10C Warthog, DCS: P-51D Mustang is a pretty impressive piece of work. Exhaustively detailed, right down to the exact placement and functionality of every gauge and dial in its fully clickable six-degrees-of-freedom virtual cockpit, this is a serious simmer's aircraft.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is a great history lesson. Not just because it gave us a sense of what it was like to storm Omaha Beach or parachute behind enemy lines, but because this was the first MoH to arrive on PC (the previous games were only on console). It also helped to usher in a much more mature tone in shooters which has continued to carry on some 10 years later. Now the entire collection of these classic Medal of Honor games, including the Spearhead and Breakthrough expansions, are available on GOG for only $10 coincidentally the same day as the latest entry in this franchise.
After the surprise hit that was Dead Island, the folks at Deep Silver are dedicated to putting out more content as quickly as possible. But for some fans, what we've seen of the results thus far in Dead Island: Riptide are too similar to the first game. The devs hear that concern and promise they're creating a whole new experience.
