CCP Games’ sci-fi MMO passes half a million players before it’s tenth birthday. CCP Games, the world’s leading independent massively multiplayer game studio, today announced their award-winning, sci-fi MMO EVE Online® had surpassed the 500,000 subscriber markworldwide for the first time in the game’s history. The milestone continues ten consecutive years of subscriber growth and follow...
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The week that was: Controversy over Assassin’s Creed, And God of War. PETA whines about fake whale violence, and a God of War trophy that made a couple of people go “woah”. Ah, what a week we had in the world of video games. Once again, video games were the subject matter of controversy. This time the controversy centered around Assassin’s Creed, and God of War. What about?...
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PQube have announced that Crash Time 5: Undercover will be smashing onto the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 later this year. The Crash Time franchise is a “Driver meets Burnout” style racer, focused on huge crashes and smashes. The success of Crash Time 4: The Syndicate has resulted in huge demand for a fifth instalment in the series; and the developer Synetic has taken it to the next ...
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Square Enix have announced their largest ever Xbox Live Sale.Starting today, the sale, which ends on March 19th, is available to both Gold and Silver Xbox Live members. The sale and includes discounts of up to 75% off many award-winning Square Enix games such as Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Supreme Commander 2, Mini Ninjas and Kane and Lynch 2. In addition to the Games on Demand titles, a range of D...
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The Games Developers Conference 2013 organisers have announced that they are planning AI postmortems of Assassin’s Creed III and XCOM Enemy Unknown. The conference will be held Monday-Tuesday, March 25th – 29th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The AI Summit has been organised with the aid of the AI Game Programmers Guild.The Summit promises to give attendees an inside look at key arc...
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Nintendo have announced their new digital content downloads for this week.Chasing Aurora is now available to download now on Nintendo’s Wii U Store. Nintendo have also announced a number of other downloads including Pets the Resort 3D, Viking Invasion 2 – Tower Defense, and Jewel Master for the Nintendo 3DS. DSi gamers can download Goony on the eShop this week. A demo of NARUTO Powerful Shippuden ...
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The Abertay University Prototype Fund provides up to £25,000 grants for UK-based companies developing games and other media software. University of Abertay Dundee helps small companies developing games enter the promising gaming industry. University has recently started accepting applications for this year’s edition of Prototype Fund — a project providing game developers with financial...
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Toylogic today announced that their popular XBLA title Happy Wars will be getting another title update that adds a host of features. Happy Wars is mutiplayer game that pits up to 30 players against each other in a cutesy cartoonish setting. Gamers can choose from a variety of different characters as they engage in large-scale battles that involves throwing spells at each other and sieging castles ...
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A new game entitled 16 Bit Arena can be pre-ordered on Amazon.com with the full release coming on March 26. It will be sold on Desura.com and Greenmangaming.com, and is now in Steam’s Greenlight community approval process. The game is being sold early at a couple of other locations including IndieVania.com and IndieCity.com but the game servers will only become fully available on the actual...
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The content in Gears of War: Judgement and its new trailer is suitable only for over 18. With Gears of War: Judgement getting nearer to its release date of March 19th Epic Games has released the Gears of War: Judgement cinematic trailer. The latest Gears of War: Judgement trailer was made according to the developers to “offer a glimpse of Judgements challenging campaign” so everything shown in the...
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