Valve and Activision Publishing, Inc today announced the upcoming holiday blockbuster, Call of Duty: Black Ops (PC), is now available for pre-purchase via Steam, a leading platform for PC and Mac games with over 30 million accounts around the world. Those who pre-purchase Call of Duty: Black Ops on Steam will be able to start playing immediately upon release on November 9, 2010, when Activision expects the title will be available worldwide. Developed by Treyarch, Call of Duty: Black Ops utilizes the Steamworks suite of tools. The title is rated "M" (Mature – Blood, Drug, Reference, Intense Violence and Language) … Continue reading Call Of Duty: Black Ops Comes To Steam →

Seven45 Studios, the new video game publisher, developer and hardware manufacturer that is a sister company to musical instrument manufacturing giant First Act, has made a limited edition full-size guitar controller for Power Gig: Rise of the SixString available for purchase at PowerGig.com. Power Gig: Rise of the SixString is the first band videogame for which the guitar controller is a fully functioning six-string electric guitar. The game is now available at retail bundled with a real electric guitar, and gamers can now purchase additional full-size guitars for the game on PowerGig.com. The limited edition guitars available on the site … Continue reading Power Gig: Rise Of The SixString Ships →

Valve today announced the latest growth data for Steam, a leading platform for PC & Mac games and digital entertainment, revealing new account growth of 178 percent, sales growth of over 200 percent, over 200 Steamworks games shipped to date, and more. During the past 12 months the platform had year-over-year new user growth of 178 percent, pushing the total number of active accounts to over 30 million, with over 1,200 games now offered. Peak simultaneous player numbers were also up to over three million, with over six million unique gamers accessing Steam each day. In addition to new user … Continue reading Valve’s Steam Hits 30 Million Subscribers →

Want to try out the hottest medieval RTS without paying a dime? Neocore Games and Paradox Interactive today announced the arrival of the demo for the recently released real time strategy game Lionheart: Kings’ Crusade. Gain insight of the Crusader Campaign as you dive into the first and and part of the second mission. The demo offers a taste of the complete Lionheart experience. Demo players can test the management phase and mission briefings. Forge into the first mission’s battle and prepare for the battle of the second mission. View the tutorial battle on Cyprus and create a profile so … Continue reading Lionheart Kings’ Crusade Demo Ready →

2K Games today announced that new downloadable add-on content for the award-winning Sid Meier’s Civilization V PC game will be available on October 25, 2010 via its digital distribution partners. As a gift to the legions of Civ fanatics, players will be able to download the new Mongols Civilization and Scenario Pack for free; and for the first time ever, purchase the Babylonian Civilization Pack for $4.99 – which was previously available exclusively as part of the Sid Meier’s Civilization V Digital Deluxe Edition. The Mongols Civilization and Scenario Pack calls for the strongest leaders to ride with Genghis Khan … Continue reading Civilization V Adds DLC →

BlizzCon 2010, Blizzard Entertainment’s two-day gaming festival celebrating the Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo game universes and their global player communities, begins on Friday, October 22, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Attendees of the sold-out show will be able to play the latest versions of Blizzard Entertainment games as well as speak with developers in discussion panels, witness live top-tier tournament competition, participate in a wide range of activities, and meet with fellow gamers and friends. Jay Mohr has returned to act as master of ceremonies for the community contests taking place on Friday, including the popular dance … Continue reading BlizzCon To Begin →

Bethesda Softworks, a ZeniMax Media company, today announced plans to develop add-on content for Fallout: New Vegas, the follow-up to the 2008 Game of the Year, Fallout 3. The first downloadable content for Fallout: New Vegas will be available this holiday season through Xbox LIVE for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. "We’re excited to continue the partnership between Bethesda and Microsoft, and build on the success of the game add-ons released for Fallout 3 on Xbox LIVE," said Pete Hines, VP of Marketing and PR of Bethesda Softworks. "Fans will once again be able to … Continue reading Fallout: New Vegas DLC Announced →

9Dragons, GamersFirst’ (www.gamersfirst.com) hit martial arts MMORPG, resumed full live service today. English language operation of the game will now continue under GamersFirst, who has been in high-gear to resume game services following the abandonment of the community this past summer by its previous publisher. Players can now download and play 9Dragons at www.GamersFirst.com/9Dragons. New players and veterans alike can take advantage of the new Level Up event that was officially Launched today until November 21st. During this event you can score some Exp cards, Blood Essences, Panacea, Courier Passes and more! "We’re thrilled to have 9Dragons ready to play," … Continue reading 9Dragons MMO Returns →

GamersFirst, today’s most popular Free2Play MMO publisher, has made significant leeway against hackers after the shut-down 40 critical illegal private servers in Turkey; resulting in additional 400 private servers terminating their services. "We are on a global mission to shut down these illegal servers," says Joe Rush, Director of Operations at GamersFirst. "Private servers have diminished the quality and experience of our games; and are a significant security risk for our players. Our primary goal, as a Free2Play MMO publisher, is to provide a quality gaming experience for our community. Private servers facilitate hacking and other crimes that we do … Continue reading GamersFirst Shuts Down Illegal Servers →

Registration and hotel booking is now open for the 2011 Game Developers Conference (GDC 2011), the 25th edition of the event, produced by UBM TechWeb Game Network. The event returns to the Moscone Convention Center from February 28-March 4 for five days of summits, tutorials, lectures, panels and roundtable discussions presented by leading industry experts. In addition to the rich selection of sessions at the main conference, the event will host two days of summits and tutorials to start the week, including the debut of the GDC Smartphone Summit, a specialized summit dedicated to game development on emerging smartphone platforms, … Continue reading GDC 2011 Registration Opens →