Reverb Publishing and Phoenix Online Studios have announced a season pass for Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller. The pass is available for purchase at Rain, GamersGate, and Gamestop for $24.99. Fans who pre-order will also receive a prequel comic and the soundtrack for the first episode of the series. I wonder how many studios are going to follow in the footsteps of The Walking Dead and make episo...
Read More »Minecraft has been updated for the XBLA to include many features that PC Minecrafters have come to love. Dearest Mojang and 4J Studios, thank you for making all of these updates free. I will always hold both of these studios close to my heart. Now we lowly console gamers have access to Creative Mode. The ingenuity of console gamers before the update has been amazing, with many players making elabo...
Read More »Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken is now available on Steam, Rain Digital Games, GamersGate, and GameStop for about ten dollars. If you’re reading this on a PC, then you probably have access to the internet and I probably should have stopped at Steam. Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken might sound familiar since the title was released in 2011 on the Playstation Network and was named one of the be...
Read More »The Pokemon Company announced that the top four winners in each age bracket from the 2012 Pokemon World Championship would be used as the basis for the Pokemon World Tournament. The events will begin on October 22 through the Nintendo wi-fi service. This tournament will allow players of Pokemon Black 2 and Pokemon White 2 to fight against the teams used by world champions, including Masters Divisi...
Read More »RPG Table Online gives Dungeons and Dragons and other tabletop gamers the chance to continue their campaigns with their friends online. The creators of RPG Table Online were looking to solve the problem of gaming groups getting separated from one another and their game due to the responsibilities of life. You know, jobs, school, kids; things of that nature. If I was playing DnD with someone and th...
Read More »Slingo partnered with Zynga to release Zynga Slingo, making it one of the top Facebook apps for the month of September. The awkward title is just another thing that we put up with in the age of the internet, where we say things like “tweet” or “Pinterest” without anyone batting an eye. I don’t mean to sound like a cranky old person, but what the heck is a slingo and w...
Read More »Sony has partnered with Wikia to launch the first Wikia official community for Planetside 2. Sony and Wikia will work with players to help them along in games and provide a way to directly communicate with the publisher. "Teaming up with Wikia was the natural next step for us in providing the necessary tools to further embrace and empower our players," said John Smedley, President, Sony ...
Read More »One of Europe’s motion-capture studios, Audiomotion, has announced that their work will be featured on Far Cry 3 and Forza Horizon. Audiomotion has lent their motion capture work to multiple movie, video game, and television franchises, including Spec Ops: The Line and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Audiomotion’s work on Far Cry 3 sounds to be both complicated and expensive, like most th...
Read More »Hibernum Creations has just released Hum A Song, a mobile multiplayer game that tests your musical abilities. Hum A Song asks players to hum a song (oh, now I get the title) into their phone and send that recording to their friend. If their friend is able to correctly guess the song, it means you are not completely tone deaf, and you can earn some coins. I can see this game starting a good deal of...
Read More »2K and Firaxis Games announced that XCOM: Enemy Unknown is available in North America today and will be available internationally on October 12th for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. Apparently Game Informer went ahead and gave XCOM: Enemy Unknown a 9.5 out of 10 in addition to giving it “Game of the Month” honors for its November issue. I’m sure there was a lot of hand-wringing over t...
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