This past year Kickstarter Projects have received a massive amount of coverage ever since Double Fines very own Tim Schafer brought it to the table back in February. Ever since then many other projects have been popping up here and then. The latest title to attempt to receive funding from Kickstarter would be an RTS game that already exists, which is known as Blackspace. It is the creation of a de...
Read More »The minds behind GDC have decided to take their GDC Online conference and rebrand it as GDC Next. This is the last year for GDC Online, and this conference will take place in Austin, Texas from October 9th to the 11th. GDC organizers have also created a special conference for App Developers: the creatively named App Developers Conference. The ADC will highlight developments in app technology, whic...
Read More »It’s that time of year again, everyone. The leaves are falling, the weather is getting cooler, and gamers are getting tired of putting up with the lack of new titles. As we anxiously await new games to play, let us look to the past and see what was good and what was mediocre. Time for the Golden Joystick Awards. For those who would like a history lesson, the Golden Joystick Awards were launc...
Read More »Familiar monsters and loot from the Ragnarok MMORPG will be invading the world of Dragon Saga for players to kill and take. Cross-overs in nerd culture are nothing new. Back on the Super NES I remember cross-over games like Aliens vs. Predator or Robocop vs. Terminator. There were even some odd cross-overs like when Marvel's The Punisher shows up in an Archie comic. However ...
Read More »CJ Games Global, today announced the start of the closed beta testing for free-to-play first-person shooter (FPS) District 187: Sin Streets, developed coincidently by CJ GameLab. Select active Netmarble players have been granted access into the closed beta and can play starting from today. Players align themselves with the righteous S.W.A.T. or side with the nefarious baddies known as Gangster in ...
Read More »NCsoft and ArenaNet announced that Guild Wars 2 will also be supported by the Mac OS® X through an already launched Mac beta. Guild Wars 2 will be available for Mac in a beta version to gamers that purchase Guild Wars 2. The Mac beta version is still being updated and is one of the only betas to be connected to live servers, allowing Mac and PC gamers to play together. Users can access th...
Read More »Kirby will return to his roots of sucking and blowing off his enemies with a collection of classics – and not in the way you are thinking of. When most people think of Nintendo, they think of one of the most memorable characters in the video game industry. However Nintendo does have other franchises developed over the years that might rival and/or perform better than the Plumber who al...
Read More »Today an Activision subsidiary, Activision Publishing, Inc., publicized Goldfinger, one of must legendary James Bond Films, will be the fifth 007 movie-inspired video game to join the 007 Legends series. Goldfinger will follow Die Another Day, Moonraker, License to Kill, and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Goldfinger occurs early in James Bond career as a secret agent; searching for Auric G...
Read More »After being in development for over two years, the indie game Life in the Dorms is finally available on Xbox Live. Created by the combined efforts of Ted Hung (creator of Office DisOrders) and Paul Franzen (Editor-in-Chief of GameCola.net), Life in the Dorms covers a subject that a few of us can relate to… college. College orientation, strange roommates, and ramen are some of the first thin...
Read More »BradyGames has just launched their official strategy guide for the latest installment of World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria. Yes everyone, there has been another WoW update, except this one is a million times better than the old one because it has pandas. Or Panda-type creatures. They can talk and they know martial arts, which makes them much cooler than real pandas. Real pandas need to get thei...
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