Homebrew News

Originally Posted by wraggster

Bethesda is preparing a Skyrim pre-order bonus that will remind fans of the PC role-playing roots of the Elder Scrolls series. If you pre-order the game, you'll get ... a "feelie!" Specifically, a "premium quality world map" will be "automatically" included with your copy.

We're just going to assume that "premium quality" means "cloth." It just wouldn't be right to fully nerd out over an old-school RPG without the thrill of unfurling

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Originally Posted by wraggster

You sank my battleship! Oh those sweet, sweet words. We've been longing to hear them since we set up camp behind our iPad, and Electronic Arts has just answered our cries. That's right, the Battleship HD app is now available for download on your iOS slab, featuring a multiple-player mode, which pits you against friends (and presumably foes) packing an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. It's also got a single-player

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Worldwide sales for Portal 2 have reached 3 million units, according to Valve co-founder Gabe Newell.

Newell was speaking at the Games for Learning Institute's Games for Change conference, where according to Gamasutra he revealed the figures to an audience of educators - while discussing how the game could teach lessons about physics.

The figures presumably include Steam sales and suggest the game will eventually outsell the 4 million sales (not including Steam) of

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The screenshots below are reportedly the first of Ubisoft's as-yet unannounced new Rainbow Six game.

The leaked shots arrive with new gameplay info via Kotaku, who reports that a morality system will be central to the new game.

"Rainbow Six will be a far more story-driven game that previous iterations of the Tom Clancy branded title with gamers tasked with stopping a homegrown terrorist group operating in America. The group, fed up with the greed of Wall Street

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Originally Posted by wraggster

So the 2012 model is gearing up to improve on last year's splendid FIFA 11 - a game widely seen as creating clear blue water between the series and perennial nemesis PES - and we were both relieved and impressed by what Producer Dave Rutter and his team had to say when we were given a first look at the 'revolution' inside EA Canada's HQ in Vancouver.

The revisions kick off with the all-new Impact engine, which will improve collisions between players and stop them clipping each other.

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