The GameShadow Blog

Ubisoft has announced that Splinter Cell: Conviction has been delayed until April 2010. Strategy title R.U.S.E. has also been pushed back by a number of months, with I Am Alive now not reported until much later as well. This news is part of a financial assessment at the company, resulting in release date changes for [...]

Electronic Arts has revealed the official release date for Command and Conquer 4: Tiberium Twighlight. March 16th 2010 for the US and the 19th for Europe. It will be one of the big titles in 2010 and will be PC only, bringing  a conclusion to the highly popular strategy series.

The successful development team at Dice are in full flow at the moment, with three Battlefield titles due before the end of the year. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is the follow up to the 2008 original, due for release on PC, XBOX 360 and PS3 in the latter part of the year. Battlefield 1943 is [...]

Electronic Arts has released confirmation news on its action RPG title Mass Effect 2. The sequel will be launching around the first quarter of 2010 for the PC and XBOX 360 only and aims to bring “intensified combat and expanded weapon options, as well as increased depth of planet exploration.” A teaser for this second [...]

After massive console sales, this week sees Grand Theft Auto IV finally hit the PC. A lot of talk surfaced about whether it would or wouldn’t be released on the PC, but after a slight delay from the original November release date, it is now here. The video editor looks a quality addition to the game, [...]

So, Braid’s finally arrived on Xbox Live, and shot straight to the top of the charts. Developer Jonathan Blow is rightly chuffed – he’s reporting in the region of 30,000 sales and counting, and I haven’t seen so many 10/10 scores in a long time. In fact, Braid is rated the 10th best Xbox 360 [...]

It’s that time again: when Valve showers us with gifts in a way few other developers are prepared to do. Today’s update is centred around the Pyro, where the last one was aimed at the Medic, and will see 35 new Pyro achievements, three new unlockable weapons, a new alt fire for the flamethrower, the [...]

The Call of Duty 4 Variety Map Pack is confirmed to be arriving on PC this Thursday. PC gamers have one up on the 360 audience in that the release is sponsored by Nvidia, meaning the pack can be released for free. To be honest, the idea of PC gamers forking out for a map [...]

EA’s run a press release details all the games the company plans to release in or before Christmas ’08 – and it’s awesome. Is that news? They’re all games we know about already, but given the flack EA receives on a regular basis, it’s nice to revel a little in the release calendar, and remind [...]

After a wait of suitably Valve-like proportions, the first major update for Team Fortress 2 went live today. The update includes a new map type – Goldrush – and three achievement-based unlocks for the medic class – one for each weapon. I could tell you all about it, or wax on about the gameplay implications, [...]