Bethesda announced that players could now register for The Elder Scrolls Online. Any longtime gamer has seen their fair share of good trailers. Some go with being funny, others go with gore, but a lot try to show off cool visuals that will play absolutely no part in the final game. This last one always gets me because it is incredibly misleading. However, the team that put together the trailer for...
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More than 380 game designers are attending this year’s Game Design Expo and Open House in Vancouver, Canada. This year marks the seventh year of the Game Design Expo. The two day event is was sold out and the theme of day one was to “propel the industry forward.” The Game Design Expo started with lectures from the teams behind some of the most popular game franchises in the industry: Halo 4 and As...
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GDC Play has announced a new award for their 2013 show, “Best in Play.” GDC has been around for years, but the organizers behind the show decided to create a separate expo for emerging and independent game developers, which they called GDC Play. GDC Play will be held on Tuesday, March 26 – Thursday, March 28 at Moscone Center during the 2013 Game Developers Conference. The “Best in Play” awa...
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My Fantastic Park, a creation from Upjers, just released today for browsers everywhere. It’s a free amusement park management game, if you couldn’t tell from the title. Pavlin Kirilov, Head of Localization at Upjers, added: “After the world-wide success of My Free Zoo, we’ve put our focus on making My Fantastic Park and its great gaming experience as accessible as possible to amusement park ...
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GamerPrint just announced an exclusive collection of posters inspired by Final Fantasy VII. The posters display a few locations from the game, including Midgar, Cosmo Canyon, and Rocket Town. Now you can finally take those other gaming posters down, and it’s about time. You have a SEGA Genesis poster hanging up, which just looks silly. You need to work on your interior decorating skills. If we’re ...
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No Time to Explain has had a good journey. The game had a successful Kickstarter campaign, then moved on to Project Greenlight where it was picked up by Steam, and now it is officially available on Steam. The title is also great, since it appears to be a key line in any high quality action film. I’m assuming the game will have a lot of buff dudes spouting catchphrases while they save helpless wome...
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A project from Nnooo known as escapeVektor, has just received a release date and price. Allow me to pause for a moment and comment on the fact that the names of many game studios are giving a lot of spellcheck users a headache. EscapeVektor will be available on the PS Vita on January 22nd for $9.99. This edition of the game will contain 150 levels, 27 different worlds, 3 types of online leaderboar...
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Capcom and Flashman Studios announced a new collection for Mega Man’s 25th Anniversary. “We are very excited about the Mega Man 25th Anniversary Collection. We are honored to work with Capcom on this commemorative offering,” said Brad Young, CEO, Flashman Studios. That’s right everyone, Mega Man is 25 years old now. Time to feel old and anxious for a moment. I feel like I’ve accomplished a good am...
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Konami is working with Come Round to offer 250 UK gamers the chance to receive their pre-ordered copy of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance a week before everyone else. That is sort of exciting. Sort of. More importantly, they also have a chance to meet Hideo Kojima. Now that is actually interesting. Gamers who agree to host a party on February 16th will be entered into a contest with winners randomly...
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Bundle Stars partnered with the charity Special Effect to donate proceeds from game sales of Indie Jam Bundle to disabled children and adults. The Indie Jam Bundle allows players to download various indie games with a portion of the proceeds going towards the charity. Players who purchase the Indie Jam Bundle will have access to titles such as Dead Horde, Future Wars, Greed: Black Border, Grotesqu...
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