Starz are getting ready for their Spartacus prequel by launching the social game Spartacus: Gods of the Arena in beta. On the 6th of Janurary the game will accept 10,000 players taken from the first who register on Facebook at facebook.com/spartacus.starz. The full public launch then follows on 20th of January. The debut of the […]
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Play World of Warcraft with the Kinect
A team from the University of Southern California has developed a free to download system that will let you play World of Warcraft or other off-the-shelf titles with the Kinect. The Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (aka FAAST) was put together by the USC’s Institude for Creative Technologies, is currently available for Windows and […]
Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale coming to Xbox, PC and PlayStation
Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale will be a multiplayer action-RPG for PSN, PC and Xbox Live. Atari have the honours. There are three pages up at Atari for the game (here’s the Xbox one) and they’re all pretty similar in terms of spec. We’ll get solo and co-op page, questing and multiple game modes. The game […]
Christmas comes early to 56 Sage Street
56 Sage Street is a free online game with a twist. In this case the twist is that’s actually provided by a bank. It’s an advergame but, in this instance, they manage to get the balance right. You feel like you’re playing a game rather than taking part in an advert. In 56 Sage Street […]
White Wolf announce The Grand Masquerade 2011
White Wolf will be doing another Grand Masquerade. Describing the Grand Masquerade 2010 as a great success the CCP-owned company will be hosting another four day event. It’ll run from September 15th to 18th. The vampires, werewolves, mages and, well, mainly vampires of the world are invited to Hotel Monteleonegroup discount prices. Tipsters suggest that […]
Gymkhana added to make DiRT sexy
I’ll admit it. I’m not that much of a fan of racing games. Mainly this is because I suck at them. I remember when Project Gotham for the Xbox would tell me it couldn’t find anyone worse or of equal skill to me on Xbox Live and I’d have to accept playing against people better […]
Sex for Everquest
Oh dear. This photograph of a “post secret” dated 2007 surfaced on Reddit today. Just in case you can’t read the handwriting it says; “My husband let other men sleep with me so he could better equipment for his Everquest Character. I thought it was fun at the time. Now it makes me sad.” Poor […]
Portal Speed Run: Under 10 minutes
This 15 minute video is a demo of the Portal Speed Run. Before you yell “For science, you monster!” yes, the player does make use of glitches. In fact, you can find a list of glitches deployed here. There a lot. Be prepared to spend a lot of time watching elevator doors. They’re clearly the […]
The full Batman: Arkham City trailer
If you had visited Geek Native quickly enough you would have spotted the initial Batman: Arkham City teaser trailer looked an awful lot like a crayon factory. Be rest assured this is not a clever marketing ploy by Rocksteady. No. It was the wrong video. In order to make up for that little video shuffle […]
Skyrim trailer: Elder Scrolls 5
We have nearly a year to wait for Elder Scrolls 5. It’s due out on the 11/11/11. We’ve also got Mass Effect 3 due out in 2011. I’m sure we’ll have a new Assassin’s Creed as well. This is the rise of the RPG. The elder scrolls talk of the rise of the RPG and […]
