Top Hollywood Talent Lining Up For Skyrim Voice Acting Jobs

Bethesda Softworks, a ZeniMax Media company, today revealed the stage and screen legends lending their talents to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the next installment in the award-winning Elder Scrolls series. Skyrim will feature an ensemble cast of Academy Award nominees, including Christopher Plummer ("The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo," "The Insider"), Max Von Sydow ("The Exorcist," "Minority Report"), and Joan Allen ("The Contender," "The Bourne Ultimatum"). Christopher Plummer, a two-time Emmy Award winner, two-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award nominee, takes on the role of Arngeir, a powerful Greybeard elder. An order of philosopher monks who are masters … Continue reading Top Hollywood Talent Lining Up For Skyrim Voice Acting Jobs

Fallout New Vegas Lonesome Road DLC Now Available

Lonesome Road, the fourth add-on pack for Fallout: New Vegas, is now available for download on Xbox LIVE and will be available later today on PlayStation Network and Steam. In Lonesome Road you are contacted by the original Courier Six, a man by the name of Ulysses who refused to deliver the Platinum Chip at the start of Fallout: New Vegas. Ulysses promises the answer as to why he didn’t take the job, but only if you make one last journey into the hurricane-swept canyons of the Divide, a landscape torn apart by earthquakes and violent storms. It’s up to … Continue reading Fallout New Vegas Lonesome Road DLC Now Available

Vampires Announced for Skyrim

Elder Scrolls developer, Bethesda, has revealed that vampires will be a playable race in Skyrim. Game director, Todd Howard confirmed that players will be able to transform into a bloodsucker – a revelation that’s sure to have vampire RPG fans champing at the bit, as it were. Once you become a vampire, it will change the way you play the game. Sunlight will affect you, the more powerful you get and players will be able to feed on people as they’re sleeping. Howard confirmed that you will be able to play through the entire game as a vampire and benefit … Continue reading Vampires Announced for Skyrim

RAGE Novel Hits Stores

The novel RAGE is now available. Penned by Matthew Costello, the novel is based on the highly anticipated first-person shooter releasing this fall from id Software, creators of DOOM and QUAKE. The asteroid Apophis has annihilated Earth, and only a small percentage of humanity’s best and brightest have been saved. Buried deep below the ground in life-sustaining Arks, these chosen few are tasked with one vital mission-to restore civilization to a devastated planet hundreds of years after the impact. When Lieutenant Nick Raine emerges from his Ark, he finds a future indistinguishable from nightmare. Humankind has not been entirely destroyed … Continue reading RAGE Novel Hits Stores

A DLC With TLC

The Honest Hearts DLC for Fallout: New Vegas adds the beautiful and deadly Zion National Park into the mix, where you are just as likely to be mauled by bears as rolled by raiders. It’s a nice change of pace.

AT&T To Provide QuakeCon Networking

id Software and Bethesda Softworks are pleased to announce that AT&T is an official sponsor of QuakeCon 2011, North America’s largest Bring-Your-Own-Computer (BYOC) LAN party and gaming festival. AT&T’s network will deliver more than five times the bandwidth ever made available to the event -ensuring the most connected and social QuakeCon ever. AT&T’s participation provides this year’s attendees with the best possible networked gaming experiences and opens up more possibilities than ever for fans at home to enjoy the event through increased live and on-demand video streams. "We are absolutely stoked to have AT&T as an official sponsor of this … Continue reading AT&T To Provide QuakeCon Networking

Hunted: The Demon’s Forge Ships

Bethesda Softworks, a ZeniMax Media company, today announced that the co-op fantasy action game, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, is now available in North America and will go on sale across Europe on June 3. Developed at inXile Entertainment, Hunted is available on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, and Windows PC. Hunted is a fresh take on the classic dungeon crawl experience that delivers the intensity and action of a modern-day shooter. The game has been called "A Dungeon Crawl for the Gears Age" by Kotaku.com while Joystiq.com says "…every encounter … Continue reading Hunted: The Demon’s Forge Ships