Mark S Taylor

Festival Teaches Game Design
Games Britannia, last year’s recipient of the “Best University/Educational Initiative” honor at last year’s TIGA Games Industry Awards,  is set to kick off its second iteration this […]

Creat Studios have announced announced their grand prize winner and runner up of their recent fan art contest. The debut fan art contest supported the current release of PlayStation Network action-adventure […]

Delve Under the Sea With A New Puzzle Game
Developed by Artifex Mundi and published by G5 Entertainment,     Abyss: the Wraiths of Eden is a new hidden object/puzzle title released today. The game is currently […]

Check out these 4 new exclusive screenshots of Wargame: AirLand Battle that reveal a few of the game’s new units in the middle of what seems to be exercise maneuvers. For commanders of Wargame, this is a juicy […]

Channel 4’s The Snowman and The Snowdog game for iPhone, iPad and Android devices has been downloaded over one million times in the UK alone between its launch on 9th December and the end of last year. The game, […]

On January 1oth, Subastomic Studios launched Fieldrunners 2  PC version onto Steam. FieldRunners 2 is the hit tower defense game and fans can now download it at a 10 percent discount from Steam today. Fieldrunners […]

On January 15 “MMO of the Year” awards and their main sponsor GameGenetics, the leading distributor of free-to-play online games, revealed the 2013 nominees for 2013. The award is one of the most prestigious and […]

Today MMOTM announced the launch of its games portal website with the premier title Call of Gods. The website promises to become the new preeminent destination for on-line gamers to play top level MMO […]

The Electronic Sports League are delighted to announce the implementation of the VERSUS matchmaking system to the award winning game Blacklight Retribution. This addition to the popular game will come about through the combined efforts of Perfect World Entertainment and Zombie Studios, who are the publisher and developer of Blacklight Retribution respectively. All 3 companies will also be working in tandem with Turtle Entertainment, who are the host of an eSports platform that reaches over 4 million players.

The new VERSUS system is intended to make it easy to get into competitive gaming, as players can effortlessly match themselves with others of equal skill by simply clicking a button. With the new system in place, every kill will be tracked by the game, creating more balanced matches. Under the new system, the PvP experience of Blacklight Retribution is planned to be fun for skilled players as well as beginners.

David Hiltscher, Vice President of Gaming Communities at Turtle Entertainment, feels that the new ranking system makes games far more exciting. He commented that games at are at their best when they create a sense of a “meaningful outcome”, and he feels that  VERSUS means you can “make each [match] count.

Jared Gerritzen, Creative Studio Head for Zombie Studios, is “thrilled to be working with Turtle Entertainment in bringing the [Electronic Sports League] into Blacklight Retribution”. He reflects that Zombie Studios set out to make Blacklight Retribution the “best F2P FPS possible” and by adding the game to the Electronic Sports League, he feels that this goal can be achieved. In order to fully support the Electronic Sports League, Zombie Studios have changed major mechanics in the game, including gunplay. These changes have been made in order to turn Blacklight Retribution into the “best competitive multiplayer F2P game available.”

More information on Blacklight Retribution can be found at Perfect World’s official site.

Einfo Games said in their Blacklight Retribution Review “If they keep on track with supporting the community with extra content and patches to sort out the rendering and lag problems within matches then we may all be in for a summer free-to-play treat that could also end up lasting for years to come.”

PC gamers rejoice, tablet leader Agawi and Marvell are working together to show off console-quality games streamed to the ARMADA 1500-based Android smart device.  The ARMADA 1500 is capable of state-of-the-art […]

Heavy Water gaming development studios has launched their own open world-building toolset on the very popular Kickstarter called Axis Game Factory. With this gamers can create, build, share, and then play their […]

How much money has Skylanders made? So much money that it’s starting to make the Call of Duty franchise a bit jealous. Try half a billion. “Just a year ago, the concept of bringing toys to life in a virtual world […]

Tazman-Audio announces their extension titled “ModularSynth” for Fabric. With ModularSynth users are able to create new types of audio effects by connecting multiple modules together in a visual way. This […]

The Wii U has moved 890,000 units since its launch, with hardware sales making $300 million in the US. The Wii only made $270 million at this stage in its launch. An important caveat to this information is that […]