eFusion MMOG have announced a new promotional competition to celebrate the launch of the free to play MMORPG ‘Dragon Nest’ this December. eFusion MMOG are holding a competition where players can enter for the chance to win a fully equipped BMW Mini Cooper S. The competition is aimed to appeal to a wide audience as eFusion have stated that it has a ‘fairly average level of d...
Read More »Hollywood director David Fincher and visual effects lead Tim Miller will work with Microsoft on the launch trailer for Halo 4. Video games are a business, and as a business they require marketing. Indie developers might get successful if their game goes viral on Youtube content creators, like Minecraft did. Mainstream games might go a little too far with their marketing, such as "...
Read More »Croteam and Mastertronic have announced that their popular FPS Serious Sam 3:BFE will be released worldwide for the Xbox Live Arcade. The game which was previously released last year for PC is the latest instalment in the Serious Sam series. The Xbox Live Arcade version of the arcaded style shooter has been fully converted to take full advantage of the Xbox 360 and LIVE. Serious Sam pr...
Read More »Lately Atari haven't really been in the spotlight when it comes to games in recent months, however all of their away time has not been so they could all go on a tropical holiday to enjoy the sun. They have been hard at work remaking Warlords, a game that was a classic on the Atari 2600, for the Playstation Network. The game is available right now for aspiring warmongers across the U.S. for $9...
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...
Read More »CJ Games Global today announced the open beta for its Free MMO FPS, District 187: Sin Streets. The open beta introduces three new maps and four new weapons along with the introduction of the District 187 development blog. "With our community's continuous input and the tireless efforts of our developer CJ GameLab, we are able to move into our final testing phase before the launc...
Read More »On October 8, 2012 after the high praise of his latest soundtracks on the RPGs Mass Effect 3 and Borderland 2, award-winning game composer Cris Velasco returns to create another musical master piece in the horror gene with a sinister and mysterious original score for the Ubisoft’s new survival-horror shooter ZombiU. Already the recipient of the “Best Original Score” at the Academ...
Read More »The classic arcade game Spy Hunter is reborn as a modern, 3D racing/shooting game for Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita. A few arguments towards the game industry point out that video games are trying to mimic movies. A possible connection could exist with military shooters mimicking 1980s action films, such as Call of Duty games being similar to Rambo. Yet another familiar icon in act...
Read More »Microsoft have announced that the playable demo for its hugely anticipated ‘Forza Horizon’ is now available to download . In the demo gamers will be able to experience action racing in the open roads of Colorado before the games official release on the 26th October. Forza Horizon is a spin-off of the popular Forza series. The game is being developed by developer Playground Games in ass...
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