Sabarasa announced today that Save the Turtles, a compelling puzzle game exclusively for Nintendo DSiWare, will be available in winter 2010. Save the Turtles allows puzzle solvers to act as good humanitarians by aiding the endangered sea turtles as they burst from their shells and make the life or death break for the deep ocean's safe blue waters. Save the Turtles boasts multiple gameplay modes, an animated flare reminiscent of a Saturday morning cartoon bursting with exuberant colors, real life environmental issues and puzzles that increase in complexity. Set in real world beach locations, the defenseless sea turtles venture into … Continue reading Sabarasa Announces Save The Turtles Game →

Red 5 Studios, Inc. is currently working on an unannounced massively multiplayer online game. Recently, the team formed around a new direction and took on additional investment from a strategic partner in the online games industry. Red 5 remains committed to releasing a AAA quality, online title targeted for a worldwide release. The company has restructured the team in order to accomplish this goal. As part of the restructuring, some team members chose to part ways while others were let go. Red 5 has great respect for these departing team members and the contributions they have made. For more information … Continue reading Red 5 Studios Announces Reorganization →

Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today announced KrissX for Xbox LIVE Arcade is now available. In this downloadable word puzzle game, players are tasked with deciphering challenging brainteasers and putting their trivia knowledge to the test. In KrissX, gamers' must help Wordsworth the Owl on his mission to solve jumbled word puzzles by switching around letters and following clues. If players are successful, they will be rewarded with badges and high scores. As players progress through the game, they can explore 150 vibrant stages while choosing to play at a leisurely pace or facing a timed challenge. With over 3,500 words … Continue reading KrissX Hits Xbox Live Arcade →

F1 2009, the official iPhone and iPod touch game of the 2009 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, is now available for $2.99 on the App Store. This discounted price will only be in effect for a limited time, so FORMULA ONE fans should race onto the App Store to download the game today. F1 2009 on the iPhone and iPod touch allows gamers to step into the racing boots of their favorite FORMULA ONE driver and compete in Time Trial and Endurance events. Time Trials test a player's ability to produce a single flying lap in the best time possible, … Continue reading Official FIA Game Goes To iPhone →

Sid Meier, the Director of Creative Development and co-founder of Firaxis Games, will bring to bear over 25 years of experience in game design in the keynote address at the 2010 Game Developers Conference (GDC). Best known for his work designing the genre-defining Civilization strategy game franchise, Sid Meier will present a keynote entitled "The Psychology of Game Design (Everything You Know Is Wrong)." In this rare address, Meier will describe how real-world, historical and mathematical facts cannot form the foundation of a successful game design. Instead, Meier will argue, the driving force of a game's design should be the … Continue reading Sid Meier To Keynote GDC →

At the Paradox Interactive Convention last week, Kerberos revealed that their next project is the much awaited sequel to the critically hailed Sword of the Stars 4X franchise. Today, Paradox Interactive summarizes some of the details revealed. In Sword of the Stars 2, gamers will be reaquianted with the original six races from Swords of the Stars I and its expansions as well as reveal the dark secret of the original series, the Suul'ka – an ancient race that is responsible for tampering with the Liir, Zuul, and other races in the SotS universe! Not limited to another entire new … Continue reading Sword of the Stars II Announced →

Beginning today, the Star Wars Galaxies Galactic Civil War: Forces Under Siege game update is available for Rebels and Imperials alike. Sony Online Entertainment is also offering eligible former players the opportunity to come back to Star Wars Galaxies for free between February 1 and March 1. With the balance of power in the galaxy at stake, anyone who can tote a blaster or lend support is needed on the front lines! Eligible player accounts will be automatically reactivated – players can simply log in to rejoin the action! For those who choose to re-subscribe before the free period ends, … Continue reading Star Wars Galaxies Updates, Woos Former Players →

Today Ubisoft announced that No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle is now available on North American retail store shelves, exclusively for the Wii system from Nintendo. Created by video game design legend Goichi Suda (Suda 51), No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle is rated "M" for Mature and available at the manufacturer's suggested retail price of $49.99. "No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle is the most wildly unique game to be released on the Nintendo Wii," said Tony Key, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Ubisoft. "Suda 51 has delivered an outrageously entertaining game that improves upon the … Continue reading No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle Ships →

A new start-up game studio in Austin is set to launch its first game, Sweet @$! Poker, a Texas Hold ‘Em card game, in the first quarter of 2010. Developer Bling Gnome Studios is led by ex-NCsoft staffers and gaming veterans, producer/programmer Stephen Nichols and artist James Cleaveland, two of the lead creators behind the acclaimed Dungeon Runners online game. Sweet @$! Poker will debut on Facebook and will take advantage of the social network site's massive 350-million active user market. Why a poker app? "Because that's where the numbers are," says Nichols. "Zynga Poker, also a Texas Hold ‘Em … Continue reading Bling Gnome Studios Announces First Game →

The 2010 Game Developers Conference (GDC 2010), produced by the Think Services Game Group, and Google are working together to celebrate and inspire the mobile and independent game development communities by offering the Nexus One phone and Verizon Droid by Motorola to qualifying developers who register to attend GDC 2010 by February 4th, 2010. Mobile/handheld games and independent games are each the subject of a dedicated summit during GDC, as well as the subjects of many of the sessions during the main portion of GDC-making conference attendees great potential developers of new content for phones using the Androidoperating system. In … Continue reading GDC To Promote Android OS Games →