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Silent Hunter Online dives deep into submarine warfare (video)
If you've got patience, this might be your kind of strategy game.
Dota 2 surpasses Skyrim’s record for most concurrent players on Steam
Valve’s Dota 2 strategy game just broke The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’s record for the most concurrent players on the Steam gaming network. Dota 2 reached 297,010 simultaneous gamers on March 2. That beats Skyrim’s 287,411 players on the game’s launch day in November 2011.
Skyrim 1.9 update: New difficulty setting and ‘Legendary Skills’
Skyrim 1.9 enables players to reset their character's maxed-out skills with the new Legendary option.
You are the new Desmond in Assassin’s Creed IV
Desmond's gone, but Ubisoft has found a new hero to anchor its Assassin's Creed franchise through the modern-day Assassin/Templar war: You, the player.
Ubisoft: 40 percent of Assassin’s Creed IV is naval missions
The latest Assassin's Creed promotes the series' popular naval-combat mode from side-mission status to an integral component of the game, taking a far deeper approach to your war at sea.
Assassins’ Creed IV: Black Flag is pirates vs. ninja
The latest entry in Ubisoft's epic, history-raiding series turns the clock back to the golden age of piracy. Plundering, debauchery, and even more naval combat await!
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag due out Nov. 1 — check out a pair of trailers
Publisher Ubisoft will release its high-seas action game on PC, Wii U, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4 (if the new console's out by then, of course).
Gears of War: Judgment writers debunk the series’ dude-bro reputation (interview)
GamesBeat interviews writers Rob Auten and Tom Bissell about the story in Gears of War: Judgment, on what they think about the series' "dude-bro" image, and who their favorite new character is.
Gears of War: Judgment makes some refreshing tweaks to an old formula (preview)
I wasn't too excited about the prospect of a fourth Gears of War, but a few new features leave me hopeful that Judgment may be worth playing after all.