Blacklight Retribution Heavy Weapons Trailer

Blacklight Retribution, the free to play sequel of Blacklight: Tango Down, is now in closed beta phase 4. The developers have promised open beta news to be soon'ish'. It's a a futuristic team based shooter with armour, weapon customisation and some sort of high tech x ray scanner that lets you see player through walls... yeah no need to wall hack in this game. Check out the latest trailer below...

Mass Effect 3 Special Forces Trailer Shows Off Multiplayer Co-op

New trailer out for Mass Effect 3. This one shows the multiplayer action and details the classes and races you can play as in the multiplayer co-op section of the game. Mass Effect 3 releases on March 6th. Trailer after the jump...

Steam App For Mobile Finally Arrives

Valve has decided to enter the mobile market... well not quite but they have released a Steam App for mobile. Currently available in closed beta on Android marketplace and Itunes. For now, you can download it and log in to register in on the beta. No public access yet. The Steam app will allow users to check out the latest Steam sales, checkout your friends profile and screenshots and even chat with those online on Steam. COOOOOL! Press release below...

Dead Island Ryder White Campaign DLC Incoming - Trailer Out

SPOILERS... for those that haven't completed Dead Island. Techland are releasing a new campaign DLC which will allow you to play Ryder White, the bad guy in Dead Island. It's a single player story campaign so there are no new characters for co-op unfortunately. The Ryder White Campaign DLC will be out on February 1st. Check out the trailer below...

Crusader Kings II Pride Trailer - Pride Comes Before A....

The latest in a series of live action trailers for this character driven grand strategy game by Paradox. You might be proud of your little Kingdom... but there is always a bigger enemy. Watch the latest trailer below...

Warlock: Master of The Arcane Video Interview - Fantasy Civ V?

Paradox has uploaded a video interview with the producer of Warlock: Master of The Arcane, a turn based fantasy strategy game based on the Majesty franchise. I have a preview copy of it and it's... well even a look at it and you will be able to tell, it takes quite a bit from Sid Meier's Civilization V, aesthetically and mechanically as well. It uses hexes damnit! :s To be fair mechanics are the differentiation but I wouldn't blame you if you said this looks like a fantasy version of Civ V. I'll try to have some preview content up for this game. For now, check out the developer interview below...

No Blizzcon For You This Year!

PC Gamer is reporting a rather major news! Blizzard has announced t hat they won't be having their earth shaking, gargantuan yearly convention.... called Blizzcon, won't be happening in 2012. Heresy! Apparently their schedule for 2012 is packed to the brim. They are organising a 2012 Battle.net World Championship that will be taking place in Asia. It would host a World of Warcraft Arena Tournament as well as a StarCraft II tournament. Beside these tournaments, Blizzard are busy at work on StarCraft II: Heart of The Swarm, Diablo 3(still no release date), and WoW: Mist of Panderia(this is still not a joke). In light of their busy schedule, there you have it... they are only having Blizzcon in 2013.

Source: Battle.net Blog

Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm Trailer Takes A Leaf Off Of Call Of Duty

For those new CoD player, you'll probably miss the reference, but a boat... crossing a bombardment area... Remember the Stalingrad mission in Call of Duty? The one where the officer shouts NOT ONE STEP BACK!. Well here's where we're at in terms of cinematic quality in games at this point... the mod to RO2, Rising Storm showcases a rather pretty trailer of the attack of Iwo Jima(from the side of the Americans). This is awesome war movie stuff. You can register for Beta here. This is a mod and will require RO2 obviously. Check out the trailer below...

Are Retail Games Priced Unfairly In Malaysia? - Publishers Do Take Note

Pricing has always been the eternal question in Malaysia and around our region. Well, at least for video games(PC or console games for that matter). It is one that has divided so many gamers into those that buy original and to those that continue to buy pirated game(or instead drop into the slew of free to play games available now). Although it can be argued that even pirates(you have to be fair here) could afford original game, just not that too often. This isn't the main reason for piracy, just one that is often quoted. At least in Malaysia.

EA Expanding Origin With Offers From 11 Publishers

EA announced today that their digital distribution platform , Origin, will be getting bigger with the addition of 11 publishers that have agreed to put their titles on Origin. They've announced that "Additional titles from publishers CD PROJEKT RED, Freebird Games, Recoil Games, Autumn Games, 1C Company, inXile entertainment, Paradox Interactive, Core Learning Ltd. and N3V Games will be available on Origin in the coming months". More competition can't be a bad thing right? They've also announced that TRION World's MMO RIFT will be making an appearance on Origin.

Source: BusinessWire

Tribes: Ascend First Play Video

Leo has been playing the free to play Tribes: Ascend which is currently in beta. It's very much a Tribes successor with lots of jet packs moves and trick shots. Lots of skills required and don't stay stationary. The only issue is with ping since there isn't a sever closer to Malaysia. Check out the first play video below...

Happy Chinese New Year!

Malaysian Gamer wishes everyone a Happy Chinese New Year! I hope all of you are having a great holiday. I know I needed one. It's back to work for me, writing reviews, previews, and videos. Thanks for supporting Malaysian Gamer. Have an awesome week!