the daily inxling!

Remember the game that brought the Fantasy RPG to millions? The Diablo series is back, with the endless pointing and clicking and levelling up and hacking and slashing and running back and forth to sell every last low-grade axe you came across?

Diablo 3 Gameplay Trailer here, viewer discretion advised.

There are new gimmicks, such as smashing at broken walls to crush your foes, and really neat new game features, such as massive leaps and much better online support. Although I know many people who played Diablo 2 (myself included) I only know one person who has actually completed it, but it made me break out my old copy and start from scratch again.

Only question is: will they have the Necromancer class? Oh, and the Butcher.

- John

RARRRR! FRESH MEAT!

If the phrases “Fox-Die” “Les Enfants Terrible” and “The Patriots” don’t mean anything to you then the chances are that, yes, you have escaped the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo’s malign influence.

For now.

On the 12th of June 2008 we’re about to have a simultaneous world-wide release of the last in a series of games that has influenced, and mobilised, countless world-wide fans. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots will be unleashed, and we’ll see the return of Liquid Ocelot, Vamp, Meryl, and Otacon. Oh, and Solid Snake. And sadly Raiden. You can put that boy in a ninja suit, give him a HF-Katana, and have him deflect thousands of knives but all I hear when I look at him is him and Rose whining at each other. Metal Gear Solid 2 sparked hilarious fan-boy rage and I’m only one of a very small number who hope that it’s Raiden who shoots himself instead of Snake - we base that hope on the premise that Hideo Kojima released footage of Snake fighting someone before the release of MGS2 and in game it was Raiden who did the fighting.

I know lots of people in games production right now who are planning to buy and who have bought a PS3 to play that game alone. And they’ve taken the 12th and 13th off work to do it. I plan to join them.

So how to warm up your PS3 before Snake Day? Grab a copy of Haze is how!

- John

Only Snake is the True Hero.

I’ve a quick break from the support tickets to catch some breath…

With the game’s developers stating the game so close, gunshots can be heard, we ask, just what is the kerfuffle surrounding this game?

Lazy I know, but quoting direct from the official Insurgency site for starters:

Insurgency’s primary concept is to create an immersive online combat experience for the player,with an emphasis on teamwork and realistic elements to create intense firefights in detailed urban environments. The first scenario is set during the present war in Iraq, after the fall of the government and the uprising insurgency that followed as a result.

What’s that in short? Having talked to a member of the team, he quotes it as a cross between CS Source and Battlefield 2. Battlefield 2 without the irritating base spammers. Wow, get me some of that.

For me, the media (although in short supply, does the pre-reputation justice. Just look at this:

We’ve also uploaded the Insurgency trailor for your viewing pleasure. Go on, have a look, it’s pure goodness.

I can almost invisage an ice cold beer, sitting, waiting for the enemy to come round the corner.

So when’s it out? Apparantly yesterday, apparantly today! I do know the team are working flatout to iron some bugs. Expect a windows release imminently, and linux server within the next few days.

As soon as the linux server files are available- we’ll deploy the game to our control panel, bringing you lovely Insurgency gaming servers.

Please email us on sales@inx-gaming.co.uk if you are interested in ordering one of these awesome servers!