Gaming Charity Helps Wounded Soldiers

Bottomline Guild is proud to announce GamePocalypse 2013, a massive gaming event to support the Wounded Warrior Project. Spanning a variety of Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games including Rift, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, and PlanetSide 2, gamers will be participating in events running for 24 hours, starting at 12:00AM Central Standard Time, March 16th, 2013. All proceeds from the GamePocalypse 2013 event will go directly to charity, and GamePocalypse’s organizers are hoping to raise $50,000 for our troops. As part of the event, FleshEatingZipper will be donating prizes courtesy of Sony Online Entertainment. Rob Morris, FleshEatingZipper’s Senior Talentless … Continue reading Gaming Charity Helps Wounded Soldiers

The Showdown Effect Explodes Into Stores

Paradox Interactive, a publisher of games and an abuser of diplomatic immunity, today released The Showdown Effect, a new multiplayer action title from Arrowhead Game Studios. In a world where every single action movie from the 80s and 90s is happening concurrently, players must shoot, slash, dive, roll, punch, and quip their way to victory to become the last clich’ standing. The Showdown Effect is available for PC and Mac in digital stores worldwide. Witness The Showdown Effect ‘ the impossible chaos that occurs when an amnesiac clone, a grizzled cop, an inscrutable martial arts master, a plucky teenage genius, … Continue reading The Showdown Effect Explodes Into Stores

EVE Online Surpasses 500,000 Worldwide Subscribers

CCP Games, the world’s leading independent massively multiplayer game studio, today announced their award-winning, sci-fi MMO EVE Online had surpassed the 500,000 subscriber mark worldwide for the first time in the game’s history. The milestone continues ten consecutive years of subscriber growth and follows the December 4 release of EVE Online: Retribution, the game’s 18th free expansion and its most successful ever. Also in December, EVE Online relaunched in China with new partner Tiancity to bring the same sandbox-style gameplay to a massive new audience where it has been thriving ever since. In January, CCP’s DUST 514 a free-to-play massively … Continue reading EVE Online Surpasses 500,000 Worldwide Subscribers

New DLC Takes You Outside The Law

Paradox Interactive, a publisher of games and a local fire hazard monitor, today ignited the latest free content update for War of the Roses, the medieval squad combat title from Fatshark. The new update, titled ‘Outside the Law,’ adds a new map, new weaponry, and new armor to the brutal warfare of War of the Roses, as well as a new method of attack for both Lancastrian and Yorkist archers: fire arrows, capable of igniting a foe from across the battlefield. ‘Outside the Law’ takes the ongoing war to Greenwood, an all-new forest map whose lush greenery will be spattered … Continue reading New DLC Takes You Outside The Law

Free Mass Effect DLC

Prepare for the Reckoning! New found allies join the multiplayer war for survival in Mass Effect 3: Reckoning. The Geth Juggernaut, Cabal Vanguard, Talon Mercenary, Alliance Infiltration Unit, and more take up arms to stop the Reaper threat. Smash your enemies with the Biotic Hammer as you lay waste to the battlefield as the Krogan Warlord. Mass Effect 3: Reckoning launches at no additional cost worldwide on February 26th on Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 (February 27th on PlayStation 3 in Europe). Publishers: EA Games Developers: Bioware Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Sword Of The Stars: The Pit Now Available

Kerberos Productions, the makers of the Sword of the Stars series of 4X strategy titles, have today released their first science fiction role-playing game for PC. Sword of the Stars: The Pit is a fun, fast, light-hearted RPG in the tradition of Rogue and other old school dungeon-diving games. Set in the popular Sword of the Stars universe, the game offers a rich science fiction backdrop and sharp, modern gameplay. The game’s turn-based mechanics and playful art style are suitable to a wide audience. The Pit is the first independent title to be published by Kerberos. The studio launched its … Continue reading Sword Of The Stars: The Pit Now Available

The 2012 GiN Game Of The Year Nominees

The ballots have all been counted, and here are the five nominees in each category for the 2012 GiN Game of the Year Awards. Congratulations to everyone who worked on a game that earned a spot on the ballot this year. For all our voters, don’t forget to cast your final ballot for the overall winner in each category. Last year we had more than 100,000 votes cast, so be sure you’re ballot is in there. Voting is, as always, free. Lots of people worked really hard to bring us these great games. Show them we care! And when you’re … Continue reading The 2012 GiN Game Of The Year Nominees