GameSalad App Creator Heading To China
GameSalad Inc., which enables anyone to quickly develop and publish sophisticated iOS, Android and HTML5 games, is teaming up with Tencent, China’s leading Internet and mobile services company, to bring GameSalad’s popular game creation platform to China. GameSalad streamlines the process for bringing mobile games to market by eliminating the need to code and allowing […]
Portal 2 DLC Nets 1.3 Million Downloads
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the early findings of the Portal 2 Perpetual Testing Initiative. Released just days ago, The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has already resulted in the creation and publishing of over 35,000 user-created maps, collectively consumed via […]
Dishonored Set For October Release
Bethesda Softworks, a ZeniMax Media company, today announced that Dishonored, the supernatural assassin action game under development at Arkane Studios, will be available in North America on October 9, 2012 and throughout Europe on October 12, 2012. Developed under the direction of co-creative directors Raphael Colantonio and Harvey Smith, Dishonored is slated for release on […]
Stronghold 3: Gold Coming Soon
Firefly Studios today announced that Stronghold 3: Gold Edition will be released on 25 May 2012 for PC and Mac. This new edition will bundle the latest version of Stronghold 3 with a new ‘Blackstaff’ single player campaign. Stronghold 3: Gold Edition will also unlock all 12 historical sieges, previously only available through special editions […]
Blizzard, Valve avoid Defense of the Ancients Lawsuits
Blizzard Entertainment and Valve today announced a mutual agreement regarding concerns over the names of upcoming products. In accordance with the agreement, Valve will continue to use Defense of the Ancients [DOTA] commercially, including DOTA 2, while Blizzard will preserve noncommercial use of DOTA for its community with regard to player-created maps for Warcraft III […]
Eve Online Sends Its Players, Almost, Into Space
On Wednesday May 9th, the Skyward Sphere program reached new heights when a replica of the iconic EVE capsule, containing the names of all Eve Online players, was sent to the stratosphere with a weather balloon rig of suspected Minmatar origin. On board the rig were also three high definition cameras which were still filming […]
Final Fantasy XIII-2 DLC Ready
Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of SQUARE ENIX interactive entertainment products in the Americas, today announced that the final set of downloadable content (DLC) for FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 will be available tomorrow. These include two new episodes, ‘Snow’s Story: Perpetual Battlefield’ and ‘Lightning’s Story: Requiem of the Goddess,’ along with White and Black Mage outfits […]
Tomb Raider Pushed Back Till 2013
Darrell Gallagher, Head of Studio at Crystal Dynamics, posted the following note about the pending re-boot of the Tomb Raider franchise, essentially saying that the game was pushed back until 2013. It was originally due out this year, around the holidays. The exact post follows: When Crystal Dynamics first set out to reboot the Tomb […]
Offspring Fling Releases To Steam
Independent game developer Kyle Pulver is proud to announce the release of Offspring Fling via the platform, Steam on PC (Windows) and Mac. The Mothers Day release includes a full campaign and an in-game level editor, currently discounted by 20%. Offspring Fling is a game about a poor forest creature that has misplaced all of […]
Hitman: Sniper Challenge Announced
Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of SQUARE ENIX interactive entertainment products in the Americas, in association with GameStop, the world’s largest multichannel video game retailer, today announced HITMAN: SNIPER CHALLENGE, a stand-alone sniper experience exclusively in North America for GameStop customers who pre-order HITMAN: ABSOLUTION. The HITMAN: SNIPER CHALLENGE pre-order promotion will be available starting […]