New currency rewards Runescape players for their in-game efforts Today Jagex, creators of the Free-To-Play Runescape series, launched a “Pay-Through-Play” campaign for the wildly popular MMORPG. The campaign introduces a new currency, called Bonds, to the fantasy online world. Bonds provide players with a means of trading in-game effort for tangible benefits, including membership! Bonds completely...
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FMOD Studio 1.2 to come with plug-ins from both Audiogaming and McDSP. Firelight Technologies have announced the release of FMOD Studio 1.2, an update on a popular program for producing game audio and soundtracks. The new release adds two particularly exciting features courtesy of plug-ins from partners Audiogaming and McDSP, which gives users the chance to add all-new features and dynamics to the...
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Digital Distribution and Deployment Just Got Better for Everyone from MMO Publishers to Indie Game Studios The leading company focused on the digital deployment of software and online games Solid State Network has announced its own platform “DIRECT” to have a 3.5 vesion. “DIRECT” manages the critical processes involved in digital distribution that includes Downloads, Inst...
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FURMINS ROLLS ONTO THE PLAYSTTATION VITA CONSOLE IN OCTOBER The award-winning Finnish Game Developer Housemarque team up with the independent developer and publisher Beatshapers to announce Furmins for the Playstation Vita. Furmins is a critically acclaimed physics-based action puzzle game coming to Vita in October 2013. Ilari Kuittinen, Housemarque’s CEO said, “As a challenging physics puz...
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Loading Bar goes back to the 60s for The Raven’s third and final instalment Nordic Games, celebrating the release of the game A Murder of Raven’s, has announced the final chapter in the Raven – Legacy of a Master Thief trilogy. Loading Bar has joined Nordic Games to release a themed cocktail for players, named the Raven. The new drink itself will be a double shot measure mini sloe gin ...
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Independent developer Devolver Digital is offering a Steam coupon for 50% off any of its titles, or bundle of titles, for anyone who contributes at or above the “Duke” tier to Firefly Studios’ Stronghold Crusader II crowdfunding campaign on Gambitious. Devolver’s titles include the brand new Shadow Warrior reboot, Serious Sam titles, Hotline Miami, Duke Nukem 3D, Dungeon Hearts, Foul Play, and mor...
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You get to finally see how lethal Deathstroke could really be in the new Batman: Arkham Origins “Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment” released a lethal-edged combat gameplay from the playable character Deathstroke in the new “Batman: Arkham Origins”. This gameplay is from the Deathstroke challenge pack, and it also featured the new “100-to-1” mode, which is b...
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Details emerged today regarding a content update for the massively multi-player on-line role-playing game Guild Wars II titled ‘Twilight Assault.’ ‘Twilight Assault’ goes live on October 1st for PC and Mac OS-X and joins the quality repertoire of additional content that ArenaNet have been adding to at an impressive rate of every two weeks. In addition to the massive amount of update features in ‘T...
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Claiming that your bank in the Thief universe in impregnable is just stupid really Some people say that the Stonemarket First Bank is completely impregnable but is it? Well players who pre-order Eidos Montreal’s upcoming stealth-em-up THIEF will have the chance to prove them wrong when they get to play the exclusive ‘The Bank Heist’ mission. ‘The Bank Heist’ mission challenges you as Garrett, the ...
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YouTube and Google have announced that they are teaming up to combat the legion of unnecessary comments on YouTube content by awarding up-loaders with various moderation powers. Via a large scale integration with Google+ and it’s services, YouTube is planning to afford every user of YouTube, new comment management abilities on their uploaded content. The new system which has been preliminarily gra...
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