Nival, a leading Russian online games publisher, today announced its recent expansion into the North American market. Located in Los Angeles, Nival’s fourth global office will focus on bringing the company’s upcoming cross-platform, social strategy games to U.S. players. Founded by Russian gaming prodigy Sergey Orlovskiy, best known for developing numerous successful titles including Allods Online, Heroes of Might & Magic V, Silent Storm and Blitzkrieg, the company is renowned as a developer of high-quality strategy games. The company’s focus is to develop online games for an international audience. "The United States is well known for innovation and our aspiration … Continue reading Russian Nival Opens LA Office→
PopCap Games announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire ZipZapPlay, a social games company based in San Francisco, California. With the acquisition, PopCap increases its Facebook games lineup, establishes a social studio in Silicon Valley, and positions itself for further growth and continued success in one of the hottest digital games categories. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. ZipZapPlay is a venture-backed social games startup with seventeen employees including founders Curt Bererton (CEO) and Mathilde Pignol (CCO), who will continue to direct game design and development at the San Francisco studio. ZipZapPlay’s previous titles include Baking … Continue reading PopCap Aquires ZipZapPlay→
PAN Vision and Fabrication Games today revealed game details and a video trailer for Piclings, an upcoming platformer for iOS that allows players to take pictures of their surroundings and transform them into playable levels. Piclings is the first game where players can bring photos to life by turning an interesting building, unique cloud formation or work of art into a game populated by adorable Piclings, and baddies protecting treasures invisible to the naked human eye. Piclings analyzes photos and uses Canny edge detection technology to turn ledges, floors and walls into an in-game level. Artistically inclined gamers can draw … Continue reading New iOS Game Will Turn User Photos Into Games→
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress, and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the first game add-on for the year’s highest rated multiplatform game, Portal 2, is in development and targeted for this summer. Portal 2 DLC #1 will offer new test chambers for players, leaderboards, challenge mode for single and multiplayer modes, and more. Targeted for release this summer, Portal 2 DLC #1 will be offered free of charge for the PC, Mac, Xbox 360, and PS3. Portal 2 was released April 19 and currently holds … Continue reading Portal 2 DLC Announced→
As previously announced at C2E2, fans will be reintroduced to the world of the Dungeon Siege video game franchise with an all-new digital comic revealing essential pieces of this epic role-playing saga! The Dungeon Siege III web comic will deliver three exciting vignettes by writer Jeremy Barlow (Star Wars: Rebellion) and artists Iban Coello (Iron Man: Iron Protocols) and Sergio Abad (Transformers: Prime). This will be the first comic to be available digitally through www.digital.darkhorse.com. The 10th Legion has fallen, but heroism is not dead in the kingdom of Ehb, even as the Azunite faction continues their control… The three … Continue reading Dungeon Siege III Web Comic Launches→
On May 2nd, 2011 Spiderweb Software (http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com) will bring Avadon: The Black Fortress to the Windows platform. This epic 40 hour RPG will place you in a new setting from the creators of the fantastic worlds of Avernum, Exile, and Geneforge. As a Hand of Avadon, ruthless and efficient enforcers of peace, your missions will take you to the 5 lands of The Pact and beyond. Battle those who seek to disrupt peace in the land while dealing with spies and assassins who wish to use the power of Avadon for their own gain. As your comrades are picked off … Continue reading Avadon: The Black Fortress RPG Launches→
CrowdStar, renowned social gaming company for global successes such as CrowdStar’s It Girl and Happy Aquarium, is today announcing the hiring of former Glu executive, Alex Galvagni, as the Head of Studios. CrowdStar, which has been rapidly expanding in 2011, with 100 employees and over 30 million monthly active users, is bringing on Galvagni to continue scaling up in hiring, studios and operations. Prior to working at CrowdStar, Galvagni was the Senior Vice President of Global product development for Glu mobile, where he worked for eight years. During his time with Glu, he built, scaled and led the technology and … Continue reading CrowdStar Hires Alex Galvagni→
Paradox Interactive and developer 1C Ino-Co are proud to announce (and also a bit emotional), that the royal event of the year is finally upon us as Majesty 2 Collection, the Fantasy Strategy coupling of Majesty 2 and its three regal expansions, has released today in retail for $19.99/€19.99. Don’t forget your confetti! Paradox Interactive is delighted to proclaim its latest trailer in honor of the release of the most majestic of strategy compilations – the Majesty 2 Collection. Cavort through over forty challenging missions, stretching across four fiendishly difficult campaigns. Each packed with an absolute treasure of new features … Continue reading Majesty 2 Collection Released→
TimeGate Studios revealed today an exclusive partnership with GameServers.com to provide dedicated server rentals for fans playing Section 8: Prejudice (www.warisprejudice.com) on the Xbox LIVE Arcade for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Section 8: Prejudice, 2011’s most anticipated and robust $15 downloadable shooter, rolled out to Xbox consumers on April 20th. Dedicated servers traditionally exist solely for the PC platform. PC players embrace dedicated servers because of players’ ability to host high-capacity servers, private sessions, configure game types, and generally customize their play experience and environment. Section 8: Prejudice is the first product on the … Continue reading TimeGate Partners With GameServers For Section 8 Multiplayer→
Slitherine (www.slitherine.com), Matrix Games (www.matrixgames.com), and War Drum Studios (www.wardrumstudios.com) are thrilled to announce the release of HISTORY Great Battles Medieval for the Android operating system (all Tegra compatible devices)! HISTORY Great Battles Medieval has already generated plenty of buzz as it was hailed as "an impressively fully-functioned RTS" by PocketGamer.co.uk. HISTORY Great Battles Medieval is the first 3D strategy game to land on this exciting new platform. The title’s beautiful graphics and innovative gameplay have been used by NVidia to demo their cutting edge mobile graphics chipsets so rest assured that HISTORY Great Battles Medieval pushes the limits of … Continue reading History: Great Battles Medieval Moves To Android→
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