Buy Mass Effect Art Book, Get in-game Items

BioWare, a label of Electronic Arts, Inc., and Dark Horse Comics revealed today that fans who purchase the digital version of The Art of the Mass Effect Universe through Digital.DarkHorse.com will receive a limited code to unlock a Reinforcement Pack containing in-game items to be used on PC or the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system in the co-op campaign in 2012’s most anticipated game, Mass Effect 3. Showcasing the unique and iconic art featured in the Mass Effect series, The Art of the Mass Effect Universe was released in print and digitally on February 8. Additionally, Mass Effect … Continue reading Buy Mass Effect Art Book, Get in-game Items

NEOGEO Handheld Set To Release This Spring

Tommo Inc and BLAZE are set to release Limited Edition NEOGEO Handheld for Worldwide sale in the second quarter of 2012. The "NEOGEO X" will be released in Q2 2012 following the 20th anniversary of the ground breaking NEOGEO AES console. This Limited Edition handheld console will feature 20 officially licensed NEOGEO games including retro classics such METALSLUG, THE KING OF FIGHTERS and FATAL FURY. Along with these 20 built in NEOGEO classic titles, the NEOGEO X will also feature, SD card expansion, a 3.5" LCD screen, A/V output, internal stereo speakers and a headphone socket. The full game list … Continue reading NEOGEO Handheld Set To Release This Spring

Shrapnel Games Releases Pen And Paper RPG

Shrapnel Games is thrilled to announce that the much anticipated pen and paper tabletop role-playing game (RPG) from Disrupted Gears, Total Eclipse, is now available for purchase. While designed for classic tabletop play it is available only in the very modern format of digital delivery, and has been specifically formatted to take advantage of the variety of smart phones, tablet devices, and e-readers (but is fully compatible with your good ol’ fashioned computer) accessible to today’s gamers. Total Eclipse is not a single RPG experience, but an open ended RPG system created to allow gamers to experience a rich variety … Continue reading Shrapnel Games Releases Pen And Paper RPG

Transformers Action Figures Created For Game

As part of the TRANSFORMERS GENERATIONS DELUXE line launching this fall, Hasbro will be releasing five new action figures in their Cybertronian form based on the characters in the video game. These include BLAST-OFF, VORTEX, DECEPTICON BRAWL, SWINDLE, and ONSLAUGHT characters that can combine into one fearsome Decepticon, BRUTICUS, just as they do in the game. Each figure within the assortment has three modes: robot, vehicle and a third ‘combiner’ mode to link together and form the colossal BRUTICUS figure. Each will be sold separately. The successor to acclaimed developer High Moon Studios’ highest-rated Transformers game of all time, Transformers: … Continue reading Transformers Action Figures Created For Game

OnLive Bringing Console-Like Games To Phones

OnLive, Inc., the pioneer of cloud gaming, announced that it is bringing console-class gaming to tablets and phones with the revolutionary OnLive app for tablet and mobile platforms. The latest, top-tier, high-performance games-previously limited to only consoles and computers-will be available for instant play via the free OnLive app on over 500 million mobile devices over Wi-Fi or mobile networks in the US and UK. A growing library of 25 console-class games have been adapted for touch-screen control, including the gritty, award-winning hit L.A. Noire from Rockstar Games and family titles like LEGO Batman: The Videogame, which will be given … Continue reading OnLive Bringing Console-Like Games To Phones

Halo: Glasslands Novel Publishes

Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC – the largest publisher of science fiction in the world – and Microsoft are excited to announce the on-sale availability of HALO: GLASSLANDS by #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Traviss. This is the first novel in an all-new Halo trilogy based on the acclaimed Xbox and Xbox 360 Halo videogame series. Traviss, who has penned number one bestselling novels in the Star Wars universe, as well as bestselling novels for the Gears of War franchise, will explore the events following "Halo 3" in a novel continuing the story begun … Continue reading Halo: Glasslands Novel Publishes

Nordic Games Acquires JoWooD And The Adventure Company

Nordic Games GmbH, part of the Nordic Games Holding AB group announces the acquisition of the JoWooD and The Adventure Company brands, products and selected subsidiaries. JoWooD and The Adventure Company will become publishing labels within Nordic Games GmbH, with the plan to re-launch the huge back catalogue of games and invest in developing the wholly owned IP’s and franchises, including SpellForce, Painkiller, ArcaniA, The Guild, Panzer Elite, Legend of Kay, The Nations, Safecracker, and Neighbours From Hell, amongst others. Nordic Games GmbH has recently opened its new office in Vienna, Austria. The team members have been carefully selected for … Continue reading Nordic Games Acquires JoWooD And The Adventure Company

Tekken Film Coming Out July 19th

Ever since its premiere in 1994, the Tekken videogame has thrilled gamers and lovers of futuristic adventure across the entire world. With millions of games sold on such gaming platforms as PS3, Xbox360 and PSP, it seemed that Tekken would forever be confined to the limited graphics of gaming consoles. Until now… The videogame of the future comes to full live-action life when Anchor Bay Films and Manga Entertainment release TEKKEN on July 19th. Directed by Dwight H. Little ("Bones," Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers), TEKKEN stars Jon Foo, Kelly Overton (The Ring Two), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Planet of … Continue reading Tekken Film Coming Out July 19th