Primal Carnage Releasing New Dino Vs. Human Content

Primal Carnage is an online multiplayer shooter that will engross its players in skilled PVP combat, team-based strategy and savage class-oriented matches unlike any you’ve previously experienced; be it an armed human mercenary or a cunning dinosaur, Primal Carnage is sure to unleash the inner beast in anyone who seeks to survive amongst the fittest. The game is still in development, but already features five large, open environments in which to team up and take down the human or dinosaur competition online. There are 10 playable classes (five human, five dinosaur) each with unique skills and abilities that can trump … Continue reading Primal Carnage Releasing New Dino Vs. Human Content

Richard Garriott Announces New Game

Richard Garriott, award-winning game designer and creator of the hugely successful Ultima series of games, is returning to the origins of game design that helped make him a pioneer and legend in fantasy role playing games. Shroud of the Avatar’: Forsaken Virtues from Portalarium, Garriott’s Austin-based game studio, was announced today via simultaneous live stream on Rooster Teeth and the Shroud of the Avatar website. The announcement also falls on the opening day of SXSW Gaming taking place at Austin’s Palmer Auditorium. The game is being backed on Kickstarter at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/portalarium/shroud-of-the-avatar-forsaken-virtues-0. Backers have a chance to fund the project via … Continue reading Richard Garriott Announces New Game

Skate to the Moon

A pre-game demo has found its way to my computer and I test it out to see just how well I think it fairs. Does Zineth skate to a future or does it fall flat a few feet after leaving the starting line?

Laura Croft Returns

Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of Square Enix interactive entertainment products in the Americas, today announced that TOMB RAIDER’, developed by Crystal Dynamics, is now available in stores for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system. The Windows PC version is available via online platforms including Steam. ‘Creating something truly special is incredibly challenging. You have got to really want it: you have to be passionate; you have to care about it, and you have to dedicate yourself,’ said Darrell Gallagher, head of studio at Crystal Dynamics. ‘We have a … Continue reading Laura Croft Returns

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