Alienware, AMD, Logitech, Andrea Electronics, and Reverb Publishing have gotten together to put on a contest for Ravaged, Reverb Publishing’s latest game. They want entrants to put together a 60 to 90 second spot for their game that focuses on Ground Combat, Vehicular Combat, Arial Combat [sic], Iconic Areas, and Serious Pwnage. These are their words, not mine. I’m guessing they meant ...
Read More »Do last minute release dates work? The iphone 5 has been a bigger hit than already suspected. Its preorder capacity has already hit new records with 2 million preorders in 1 hour. The new Nintendo console set for release this November, the ‘Wii U’ has also taken huge preorder numbers. Both Nintendo & Apple recently have had public press releases regarding details of their respected...
Read More »Nintendo is doing something bold and new with their advertising: featuring famous people in their commercials. Gosh, I’m sure there are a lot of other publishers that wish they had come up with that idea. The campaign is called, “Play As You Are,” and it will show off Nintendo 3DS and 3DS XL handhelds along with a slew of different games. By slew I mean five. They’ll show f...
Read More »There are some nasty challenges awaiting you in The Secret World Issue #2: Digging Deeper. Better bring a rocket launcher. Funcom, developers of Age of Conan and the still new The Secret World, has just revealed a few new secrets up their sleeve for the modern MMORPG.. New content will be added to the game which will challenge you in Issue #2: Digging Deeper, and new upgrades are avail...
Read More »The London Screenwriters’ Festival have announced that they will deliver a video game script lab as part of the London Screenwriters festival. Steve Ince has been chosen to deliver the script lab on writing for games. Six applicants will be selected for the three hour lab. They will be chosen through an application process. Participants will be expected to have a good understanding and worki...
Read More »Which medieval weapon in War of the Roses is your favorite? Once you get all that heavy armor wrapped around your torso and are ready to hop onto your war horse, which medieval weapon do you bring into combat? Do you prefer something simple like a sword, which can slice through limbs yet doesn't have a great reach? Or do you go for a bow, firing a volley of arrows at your en...
Read More »Fishlabs Entertainment’s and Volkswagen’s Sports Car Challenge has won the award best “Corporate Game” at this year’s Digital Communication Award ceremony in Berlin which took place last Friday, September 14, 2012. In the process Sport Car Challenge beat out over 500 other competitors from all over to snag the award. Sports Car Challenge is a 3D raci...
Read More »Trion Worlds have announced that there will be a fourth and final beta for the free to play and widely anticipated military strategy game End of Nations. The beta is scheduled to start at 8:00am PDT on Thursday 4th October and will end on Sunday 9th October at 9.00pm PDT. End of Nations is the upcoming MMORTS for Microsoft Windows. The game is currently being developed by Petroglyph Games and publ...
Read More »This past year Kickstarter Projects have received a massive amount of coverage ever since Double Fines very own Tim Schafer brought it to the table back in February. Ever since then many other projects have been popping up here and then. The latest title to attempt to receive funding from Kickstarter would be an RTS game that already exists, which is known as Blackspace. It is the creation of a de...
Read More »The minds behind GDC have decided to take their GDC Online conference and rebrand it as GDC Next. This is the last year for GDC Online, and this conference will take place in Austin, Texas from October 9th to the 11th. GDC organizers have also created a special conference for App Developers: the creatively named App Developers Conference. The ADC will highlight developments in app technology, whic...
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