Some YouTube channel subscriptions as early as next quarter could need a monthly payment to access and play. Don’t worry too much as it is very unlikely that a channel you are subscribed to will simply switch to a payment scheme. Chances are, channels will be built around this, offering more content at a cost of around 1-5 dollars a month or 63p-£3.17 when converted, to paid subscribers. Pos...
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Mommy’s Best Games have released their first of four developer diaries for Serious Sam Double D XXL and it looks like there will be lots of guns, gun stacking, and gun customization: Serious Sam Double D XXL is the Xbox Live Arcade version of 2011’s 2D shoot-‘em-up for PC. While the first developer diary only shows a few of the new guns and custom parts, some other new features have been announced...
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The “get your music in the game” competition held by The Secret World team will allow community members to submit their music. Their submissions will be considered for a chance to have their tunes shared with the player base of The Secret World. The winners will have their music played in various in game locations such as bars, shops, and diners. “There are a lot of talented and dedicated people i...
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Following in the footprints of Dust 514 a new Defiance beta is coming soon to PC, Xbox 360, and the PlayStation 3. If accepted into the beta, players can look forward to accessing this second look at this highly anticipated shooter between the morning of February 8th and the evening of February 10th. In “Advanced Mission Beta 2” players will once again return to a futuristic, battle torn San Franc...
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Gamebase USA is now an authorized middleware developer. With this partnership, the Gamebryo engine will now be used as support for Wii U development. Their role will essentially be to simplify the game development process. “We are determined to stay on the cutting edge of all new hardware as it becomes available,” said Gabriel Liberty, Technical Director of Gamebase USA. “The Wii U is powerful eno...
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Granado Espada is a Korean fantasy MMORPG developed by IMC Games Co.,Ltd. Originally released in South Korea in February 2006, the English localizations were launched in the summer of 2007 in North America and Southeast Asia. Granado Espada won the 2006 Korean Presidential Award for Best Graphics and Game of the Year, with features previously unseen in an MMORPG (such as the ability for players to...
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One Thumb Mobile, developers of the popular MMORPG Celtic Heroes are excited to announce the nomination of their game for the 2013 MMO of the Year Awards. Since its beginning 8 years ago, the MMO of the Year Awards have been a way of recognising the best games in the rapidly expanding field of MMOs, no matter the platform. Over time, the award has come to be one of most prestigious honours for MM...
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If you have been keeping an ear out on gaming industry news lately the destruction of THQ is old news to you, but there are new developments worth paying attention to. Among the fire sale of assets last week Vigil Games out of Austin, Texas was left to die with not a single bid. In this circumstance an unpurchased property would be dissolved leaving all executives and developers without jobs, but ...
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The writing has been on the wall for a long time now, but unfortunately, it is official. THQ is no more. The long time developer of toys and video games fell victim via Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Basically, what that is in a nutshell is they couldn’t pay their bills, they were unable to pay off their debt. We won’t get in a discussion about that, though, instead, let’...
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War Thunder, Gaijin Entertainment’s upcoming World War II air combat MMO, has entered open beta in Europe, North America, and South America. Several weeks after open beta began in Russia, Gaijin’s Creative Director Kirill Yudintsev made this announcement: “After four years of working on War Thunder, we’re sincerely happy that we can finally present it to the gaming community all over the world.Eve...
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