Spy vs Spy, developed by Robots and Pencils, together with First Star Software, Inc. and Warner Bros. released a reworked classic for the iPhone/iPad iOS platform on July 26th 2012. This weekend just gone, they celebrated the fact the game had hit the #1 spot for top paid app, and have lowered the price to 69p (99 cents) indefinitely as a gift. Apple themselves labeled the game as ‘New and N...
Read More »Future, the UK’s leading games media group announced today that HMV will headline and be the official sponsor of The Gamemaster Golden Joystick Awards 2012 this year. The event is to be held at The Westminster Park Plaza on Friday 26th October 2012. How popular is the Gamemaster Golden Joystick Awards? The Guinness World Record of over 2.1 million voters will tell you. HMV is also putting their na...
Read More »The Political Machine 2012 is the next edition of its popular political strategy game developed by Stardock for the PC platform. If you think you can do better than the president, then this is your chance! You can play as political powerhouses including Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, and Newt Gingrich, or create your own from scratch. [divider] Since this is the 2012 edition, ...
Read More »Everyone Sing is a new party game developed by O-Games coming for the PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii, in September 2012. The game offers a mode called Everyone Party and is a social party feature bound to get friends singing with up to 8 singers able to compete at once with 4 microphones in teams. You can compete in 3-5-7 or 9 rounds in a range of different games set to test all your vocal abilities: Team...
Read More »If you have a look at your computer game boxes, you will see either one of two age ratings on the front; PEGI (Pan-European Game Information) and BBFC (British Board of Film Classification). BBFC tended to be used for more violent games, whereas games suitable for younger audiences used PEGI. From now on, expect to find only PEGI rating systems on game boxes. The change is to make it more clear fo...
Read More »If you download the Unreal Development Kit now (July 2012), it should come with the Perforce Software Version Management System. www.udk.com Perforce allows enterprize-grade version control tools for up to 20 users and 20 workstations free of charge, with unrestricted time limits and file quantities. What does this mean for game developers? If you are working on the same project, but have a large ...
Read More »GamesAid is a UK games industry charity for children and young people. They have announced that thanks to their members and supporters, they raised over £80,000 last week. GamesAid this year are helping these non-profit charities: Action For Kids (AFK) – actionforkids.org, Jigsaw4u – jigsaw4u.org.uk, Lifelites – lifelites.org, Volunteer Centre Sutton: MAPS – mapsmentoring.c...
Read More »Worms Collection If you are into the Worms series, and you have a calender, mark down August 31st 2012 with a big red circle (or whatever other colour pen/pencil/marker/paint & brush you happen to have in your hand) Mastertronic, a video game publisher and distributer, is to release Worms Collection for the Xbox 360 and PS3 containing 3 games; Worms, Worms Ultimate Mayhem, and Worms 2: Armaged...
Read More »9Fruits today, a social game developer announced the launch of a game called Running Fever, on Facebook. Running Fever puts players around the world against each other in a casual quirky arcade action game, with colorful cartoon graphics. With the Summer Olympics right around the corner, this is your chance sitting at home on Facebook to compete for prizes, and experience some of the thrill. You f...
Read More »Pinball City © is a set of games developed by Another Way 2Play. The first being Pinball City © New York, and now the sequel, Pinball City © Paris now available. After having broken the pinball game standards with Pinball City© New York, Another Way 2Play presents the second installment in the series : Pinball City © Paris. Dive into the City of Lights and discover the beauty of a retro Paris in H...
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