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COD Black Ops 3 Seize Glory Trailer
Black Ops is back! With only a few days to go until what Nielsen dubbed the “most anticipated multiplatform holiday game” of the year releases worldwide, Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s live-action trailer has hit the airwaves. Activision kicked its creative and...
Fringes Of The Empire a Unique Sci-Fi Blend
Indie developer Lost Astronaut Studios is proud to announce that Fringes Of The Empire will be available for PC on Steam Early Access beginning November 13th, offering a retro-inspired Sci-Fi blend of rogue-like RPG adventure and real-time 2D top-down tactical...
Toby: The Secret Mine has been released on Steam
Indie game developer Lukas Navratil released his challenging and beautiful, Limbo inspired puzzle platformer Toby: The Secret Mine on Steam. You play as a little creature called Toby and with little information you’re left to set out on a journey to find your...
Playable Blade in Marvel Heroes 2015
Is there a more appropriate Halloween addition to Marvel Heroes 2015 than Blade? As the game’s 52nd playable character, the Daywalker enters the scene voiced by Dave Fennoy and dressed in attire inspired by amazing comic covers designed by Marko Djurdjevic for Blade’s...
The Escapists Receives New Duct Tapes Are Forever DLC
Team17 and Mouldy Toof are excited to reveal a brand new type of challenge for their breakout hit, The Escapists. The Duct Tapes Are Forever DLC will be available to download for PlayStation 4 and PC on the 3rd November and for Xbox One via the ID@Xbox self-publishing...
Sound of Drop fall into poison now available on Steam
Sekai Project, an up-and-coming publisher and licenser of Japanese new media and electronic entertainment today announced that AiueoKompany’s Sound of Drop – fall into poison –, a horror and mystery themed visual novel, is now available on Steam for Windows-based PCs,...
New Black Desert Online content trailer
Daum Games has shown a new content trailer at Paris Games Week that depicts some of Black Desert Online's best features such as the incredibly in-depth and detailed character customization tool. Also shown are life skills such as Taming, Fishing, Mining, Farming,...
Game Tycoon 2 Launches Today
Game Tycoon is back and just as the games industry has evolved, so has Game Tycoon. Choose from one of three development studios and develop the video game hits of tomorrow for PC, console, handhelds, smartphones and other platforms. As an indie game developer, you...
Fast Like a Fox hits mobile stores
Fast like a Fox, developed by the Finnish startup game company WayBefore and published by Fingersoft, best known for the megahit Hill Climb Racing, brings a totally new game mechanic on the market. In the fast-paced free-to-play platformer you control the running...
Air Conflicts Pacific Carriers flies on PS4
The attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway, the Battle of Okinawa; the Pacific Theatre of World War II contested some of the fiercest air battles ever seen. Now, prepare to take to the skies and engage in intense dog fights and daring bombing raids on aircraft...
Sony unveils 22 new titles and VR
Sony today announced the future of PlayStation 4, with a huge range of exclusive software announcements from both first and third party studios, as well as brand new content announced for PlayStation VR. On stage at the PlayStation Media Preview in Paris, France, SCEE...
Failure – A genre bending RTS heads to Steam Greenlight
Presented by We are Dream Harvest, a small distributed team currently developing Failure for PC/Mac/Linux. Failure is a Real Time Strategy game that takes the RTS core, blends in elements of Tower Defence and Collectable Card games, along with some unique mechanics of...
Wintertide hits Steam Greenlight and Kickstarter
Indie game developers Contagious Crow is proud to announce the release of the first Trailer and Kickstarter campaign from its debut title “Wintertide”. Wintertide is a team oriented action survival game. Players traverse across sparsely populated snowscapes with thick...
Dead Secret coming to Oculus, Steam and PlayStation
After a decade of rigorously studying horror and mystery game design, independent studio Robot Invader is excited to announce the release of its first game in the genre: Dead Secret. Designed specifically for VR yet firmly connected to its console roots, the game will...
Matterfall a new game from Housemarque
After Resogun and Alienation, Housemarque is pleased to announce that they are working on a slick and action packed new title called Matterfall. Matterfall follows an unexpected hero in a ravished sci-fi setting. Crystalline shapes that are summoned mid-air are a...
Minecraft Story Mode starts today
Leading and award-winning developer and publisher of digital entertainment Telltale Games, and world-renowned game developer Mojang, today announced that Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series is now available in stores across North America and will be...
The Park from Funcom now available
A day at the park... a lost teddy bear... a missing child. So begins the story of Lorraine, a mother that must face every parent's worst nightmare when her son goes missing in Atlantic Island Park. While amusement parks should be happy places, the one you visit in...
Knight Squad Blasts out of Early Access
Chainsawesome Games has revealed that Knight Squad, medieval-themed party game for up to eight players, will go into full launch November 16 on PC and Xbox One. Enter the fray in free-for-all battles, crush your opponents in team-based matches, and take the fight...
Alien: Isolation – The Collection launched
SEGA and Creative Assembly have today launched Alien: Isolation - The Collection for Steam (PC/Mac/Linux), PlayStation 4, and Xbox One as a digital download. The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One version of 'The Collection' will be $39.99 at launch, with Steam users able to...
Coffin Dodgers coming to PS4 and Xbox One
Milky Tea Studios and Wales Interactive have announced their collaboration to bring the dark comedic kart racing game Coffin Dodgers to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in Q1 2016. The two independent studios, separated by the England-Wales border, have put their sporting...
Build your own tanks in Tanki X
AlternativaPlatform, creators of arcade action MMO Tanki Online, have just announced a new PC project by the name of Tanki X. In Tanki X, players assemble their tanks from multiple combinations of guns and hulls, and face off against real-players in a variety of game...
Arslan the Warriors of Legend details and date
Koei Tecmo Europe revealed today a wealth of new information on the release of Arslan: the Warriors of Legend, which will become available across Europe on 12th February 2016 for the PlayStation 3 and 4 and Xbox One. Based on the renowned novel, ‘The Heroic Legend of...
Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns launched
ArenaNet, today launched Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns. The highly anticipated expansion to Guild Wars 2 is now live and available at digital and retail stores across Europe and North America. The expansion to the PC massively multiplayer online game (MMO) comes less...
Just Dance 2016
Today, Ubisoft announced Just Dance 2016, the latest installment of the music game franchise, which is now available on all motion-control gaming platforms, including the Wii, Wii U, Xbox One, Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. Just Dance 2016 opens up the...