Pc game releases 2011 july

Project Dark , PS3 Brink , PS3 due April 12, Battlefield 3 , PS3, PC due 2nd half of Killzone 3 PS3 due February 22, Catherine PS3 Paper Mario 3DS Forza Motorsport 4 due July-September Noire , PS3 due May 17, Marvel vs. Gears of War 3 due September 20, What remained is what you see above and while all these games are wildly different, I truly believe these games will all be on par with each other with 8, 9 or 10 out of 10 scores.

Tags: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. The 3DS didn't start flying off shelves until Nintendo drastically slashed the price. Beyond the company's entry into high-definition gaming, the Wii U was positioned as another entry in the company's line of interface innovations like the DS touch screen and the motion-sensing Wii Remote. The big draw of the Wii U is its tablet controller, which includes a touch screen, tilt-sensitivity, and enough sticks and buttons to provide a traditional gaming experience for games that demand it.

The system drew plenty of support from third-party publishers like Electronic Arts and Ubisoft, but a tepid reaction from investors sent Nintendo shares sinking. The price cut worked in sparking 3DS sales, and by Black Friday weekend, the handheld had surpassed the first-year sales total of the original DS. While Nintendo grappled with its 3DS woes and took the wraps off the Wii U, Microsoft and Sony were largely mum about their next-generation consoles.

Or maybe But it could be Unfortunately, the biggest confirmed news about the next wave of systems was that Microsoft had begun publicly hiring hardware architects for its next-generation console back in March. Maybe it's just as well, considering that the Xbox has shown few signs of slowing down, now six years into its life span. At this point in the original Xbox's life span, the system had been discontinued and replaced by the Xbox for two whole years.

Microsoft built its hardware push up to a gigantic Thanksgiving week that saw the company sell nearly 1 million systems, the single biggest week in the company's console history. As for the PlayStation 3, the system started the year strong but endured its worst sales performance in years during a lengthy outage to the PlayStation Network, which transitions nicely to the next theme in our year-end recap.

On January 7, iPhone jailbreaker George Hotz announced that he had taken the PlayStation 3 security gaps first identified by the fail0verflow hacker collective to their logical conclusion by releasing the system's master key.

With it, PS3 owners could run unauthorized software on their consoles, including pirated games, homebrew programs, and even custom firmware. Hotz's move came after Sony removed the OtherOS function from the PS3, which allowed maker-minded gamers to do with the console what they would. However, this option, which Sony had initially advertised and was used by an insignificant portion of the PS3-owning population, came to be seen by the company as a security threat.

And in response to Hotz's actions, Sony came down with the uncalculated abandon that few but a solidly established multinational megacorp can muster. That is, Sony left this matter to its lawyers. Five days after Hotz's announcement, Sony sued the year-old technical wunderkind along with a number of anonymous fail0verflow hackers. Through this suit, the company obtained court orders to impound the hardware that Hotz and the unnamed others used to jailbreak the PS3, while also doling out bans to any who had been detected as using the PS3's master keys.

The court also granted Sony's request to have YouTube, Google, Twitter, and other websites turn over names and telephone numbers, as well as email and IP addresses, of anyone who visited Hotz's website or downloaded the PS3 hack.

And that's about the last thing that went in Sony's favor. As the Great East Japan Earthquake sunk Japan into horrific disarray, the feared hacker collective Anonymous began wreaking its own form of carnage on Sony. Deriding Sony's assault on Hotz and fail0verflow as an affront to free speech and Internet freedom--also known as "primary sources of free lulz"--Anonymous launched its opening salvo, a distributed denial-of-service attack on various Sony-owned websites and the PlayStation Network.

Surely the hacker community of the world could muster more," have a seat and ready a popcorn bucket. Retaliation is in the air. The reason for the downtime, Sony admitted a day later, was that there had been an "external intrusion" into the PSN and Qriocity service's servers, to which Anonymous responded with a "not us, kthxbai. The implications of that security breach snapped into focus on day seven of the PSN outage, when Sony confirmed that a vast amount of information for a vast number of users had been compromised.

How vast? Well, after Sony Online Entertainment issued a "Crap, us too" announcement, the number of exposed accounts on Sony's platforms totaled more than million. Sony quickly moved to reassure the many, many millions of customers whose personal information had been stolen, noting that all compromised credit card and password data had been securely encrypted.

And with state and national governments initiating inquiries into the breach, Sony enlisted the aid of the FBI and Homeland Security to help track down the perpetrators of the hack. Sony was also compelled to answer questions before Congress regarding the attack, which it did. Class-action lawsuits were filed, of course. Sony issued its own make-good as well, promising credit-monitoring protection and free PSN games once the service became available again. In mid-May, after numerous delays and false starts, some three weeks after Sony pulled the plug on PSN and began rebuilding the platform from scratch, the company brought online multiplayer and chat functionality back online.

Pig cops, alien shrink rays and enormous alien bosses won't stop our hero from accomplishing his one and only goal: to save the world, save the babes, and to be a badass while doing it. The game was officially announced on April with the intention of releasing it no later than mid as a successor to the popular Duke Nukem 3D.

But of course that never came to happen. Following several engine changes, missed deadlines, teaser videos to placate anxious fans, legal wrangling with publisher Take-Two and eventually the demise of 3D Realms, Gearbox picked up the project last year and is polishing things up for a release this quarter. Here are the games to keep an eye on for Bulletstorm. User Comments: Add your comment to this article. You need to be a member to leave a comment.

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As a pirate, you must assemble a fleet and discover what treasure awaits you there. Warhammer 40, Space Marine is a fast-paced third person action-shooter from Relic Entertainment allowing players to don the armor of one of the emperor's chosen in a battle for the very survival of humanity. Featuring a seamless mix of melee and ranged combat, Space Marine will deliver a true next generation experience when it launches on Xbox and PlayStation 3. Magicka is an action-adventure game set in a rich fantasy world based on Norse mythology.

The player assumes the role of a wizard from a sacred order tasked with the ultimate goal of stopping an evil sorcerer who has thrown the world into turmoil, his evil creations besieging the forces of good. Alma returns in F. Gamers participate in single player or co-op modes as Point Man, a genetically enhanced super soldier originally introduced in F. In the next chapter crusader Fortix has to save the rest of the continent from an evil curse. On his journeys Fortix will be aided by his sister Floriana.

Savage wolfs will be turned to peaceful lambs, bloodthirsty dragons to seed-picking pigeons. Where was he? What did he find out? The Missing Link reveals it all.

Blackwell Deception is the fourth installment in the Blackwell adventure series. In most games you see stars in the background, you shoot asteroids or you live on planets. But in Solar 2 you ARE these objects! Enter a universe where you must prove yourself to the resident god-like figure by doing its many bizarre and varied tasks. Or just ignore it and see how big you can grow!

Solar 2 is an open-world, sandbox game set in an infinite abstract universe. Play constructively: grow your system, nurture life on your planets and attack enemy life in huge space battles.

Play destructively: crash into other objects and cause chaos, use your orbiting objects like wrecking balls, steal planets from other systems.

Key features: - Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do. Drift forever in ambient space bliss. Croteam's Serious Sam 3: BFE is a glorious throwback to the golden age of first-person shooters where men were men, cover was for amateurs and pulling the trigger made things go boom. You are the Tetrobot: a tiny robot that can drill blocks of matter one by one, collect them, and recycle them into new pieces of 4 blocks.

Sand, wood, stone, obsidian, iron, diamond: each matter has its specific behaviour you'll have to use wisely and take advantage of them. So get ready to use your brain and combine your platforming and puzzle-solving skills in this incredible mashup! Gray Matter is the first adventure game by renowned author Jane Jensen since the release of Gabriel Knight 3: the story mixes eerie goings-on with supernatural events in best Jensen-style. Neurobiologist Dr. David Styles is one of the game's central characters: since losing his wife in a horrible accident some several years ago, he has become a recluse, seldom leaving Dread Hill House, his English country estate.

Coming Soon. Essential Links. Highs and Lows. Highest of the Month. Lowest of the Month. Portal 2 Platform: PC April 18, Valve is working on a full-length sequel to its award-winning, mind-bending puzzle action game for the Xbox and PC. Metascore: 95 User Score: 9. Metascore: 94 User Score: 8. Minecraft Platform: PC November 18, The game involves players creating and destroying various types of blocks in a three dimensional environment.

Metascore: 93 User Score: 8. Metascore: 91 User Score: 8. Metascore: 90 User Score: 8. Total War: Shogun 2 Platform: PC March 15, Shogun 2 is the ultimate refinement of the original formula with a new, cutting-edge AI, more polish and online functionality than ever before. Metascore: 89 User Score: 7. Battlefield 3 Platform: PC October 25, As bullets whiz by, walls crumble, and explosions throw you to the ground, the battlefield feels more alive and interactive than ever before.

Metascore: 88 User Score: 8. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Platform: PC March 22, The critically acclaimed single-player experience of Assassin's Creed is back and better than ever as Ezio returns in an epic struggle against the powerful Templar Order. Dead Space 2 Platform: PC January 25, Hero Isaac Clarke returns for another heart-pounding adventure, taking the fight to the Necromorphs in this thrilling action-horror experience. Metascore: 86 User Score: 8. Metascore: 86 User Score: 7.

DiRT 3 Platform: PC May 23, DiRT 3 will boast more cars, more locations, more routes and more events than any other game in the series, including over 50 rally cars representing the very best from five decades of the sport. Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand Platform: PC December 13, Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand is a massive themed expansion pack featuring four of the most loved maps from Battlefield 2, boldly reimagined for Battlefield 3 with the power and destruction of the Frostbite 2 engine.

Frozen Synapse Platform: PC May 26, Frozen Synapse is a thrilling PC strategy game that brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre bang up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad. Metascore: 85 User Score: 7. Saints Row: The Third Platform: PC November 14, Years after taking Stilwater for their own, the Third Street Saints have evolved from street gang to household brand name, with Saints sneakers, Saints energy drinks and Johnny Gat bobble head dolls all available at a store near you.

Metascore: 84 User Score: 8. Metascore: 84 User Score: 7. Rift Platform: PC March 1, The graphically stunning online game is set in a world being torn apart by dimensional "rifts" that tear into the land of Telara, releasing powerful forces that threaten the very existence of the entire universe. Metascore: 84 User Score: 6. Anno Platform: PC November 17, Developed by Related Designs in collaboration with Blue Byte, Anno takes place in a near-future environment where climate change has forced humanity to adapt to rising sea levels that have left stretches of once-fertile land completely inhospitable.

Metascore: 83 User Score: 7. Metascore: 83 User Score: 8. Terraria Platform: PC May 16, Terraria offers players a chance to be an action gamer, master builder, a collector, and even an explorer. Metascore: 82 User Score: 8. Metascore: 82 User Score: 4. Metascore: 82 User Score: 7. Bulletstorm Platform: PC February 21, Bulletstorm's array of distinct skillshots produces unprecedented levels of frantic gameplay.

Metascore: 81 User Score: 8. Rochard Platform: PC November 15, Developed by Recoil Games, Rochard is a fun and original space adventure game that features a resourceful hero, ominous villains, rugged machinery, big explosions, even bigger stunts and sharp oneliners.

Metascore: 81 User Score: 7. Anomaly: Warzone Earth Platform: PC April 8, Blending fast-paced, explosive action with tactical battlefield command, Anomaly puts players in charge of a military convoy tasked with fighting back against the mysterious alien war machines that have begun to spring up in many of the world's largest cities. Metascore: 80 User Score: 7. Dead Island Platform: PC September 5, A couple flying to the vacation of their dreams is torn apart by a violent plane crash.

World of Tanks Platform: PC April 12, World of Tanks is the first and only team-based massively multiplayer online action game dedicated to armored warfare. Metascore: 80 User Score: 3. Panzer Corps Platform: PC July 11, Panzer Corps will feature 26 scenarios on 21 unique maps, covering most major battles of the European Theatre of World War II and including a few hypothetical 'what if' scenarios based on your actions.

Assassin's Creed: Revelations Platform: PC November 29, Revelations follows master assassin Ezio Auditore as he walks in the footsteps of his legendary mentor, Altair, on a journey to recover five ancient seals that hold the keys to the future of the Assassins brotherhood. Driver: San Francisco Platform: PC September 27, Driver: San Francisco marks the return of the established video game series that has sold 14 million copies worldwide. Metascore: 79 User Score: 8. Metascore: 79 User Score: 7.

Metascore: 79 User Score: 5. Metascore: 79 User Score: 6. Metascore: 78 User Score: 7. Metascore: 78 User Score: 3. Tropico 4 Platform: PC August 30, Tropico 4 sees you return as El Presidente, the tyrannical or benevolent dictator of the island paradise of Tropico. Sonic Generations Platform: PC November 3, Set across three defining eras from 20 years of Sonic the Hedgehog video game history, the instantly recognisable environments of Sonic Generations have been re-built in stunning HD and are now playable in both classic side scrolling 2D from , as well as modern 3D style found in Sonic's most recent adventures.