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Xbox One February system update details
Microsoft has started to roll out the February Update for the Xbox One. In this month's firmware update there are several sets of changes received by dashboard beta testers over the past 30 days, including tile transparency on the console's home screen,...
The Afterglow PS4 Bluetooth Communicator
PDP is excited to announce the release of a unique chat device for the PlayStation 4: the Afterglow PS4 Bluetooth Communicator! The Afterglow PS4 Bluetooth Communicator is a slim-profile chat device, allowing users to keep in contact with other players, without the...
World of Khaos Date and pricing
Rapid Turtle Games today announced that World of Khaos, an upcoming tower defense game will be available worldwide on February 12, 2015 for iOS and Mac, with a price of $1.99 and $4.99 respectively. The game will be fully localized into 9 languages: English, German,...
Izle gameplay revealed
Designer and developer, Area Effect, today revealed gameplay details behind its recently announced RPG. Set to launch in 2016 on Steam, XBLA (Xbox 360, Xbox One) PlayStation Network (PS3, PS4) and Nintendo Wii U, Izle is a new sandbox-adventure that fuses freedom of...
Country Road Races in Ride
Milestone, an Italian videogame developer for consoles and PC, releases a gameplay video dedicated to North Wales track included in Ride, its first exclusive IP - playable from 20 March 2015 - on the Xbox 360, Xbox One, Windows PC, Steam, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation...
Warhammer: End Times Vermintide
Independent developer Fatshark announced today the development of Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide, a co-operative action first person shooter and melee combat adventure set in the End Times of the iconic Warhammer Fantasy universe. Vermintide is scheduled for...
Because Zombies Launches On IOS Today
Ben Hindle, who has worked on such titles as Jade Empire, and Mass Effect, played almost every role in his new game studio, DoubleSmoked Software. “I can't believe this day has actually come” he said, “So much work went into this game! I’m really excited to have the...
Unium, draw a line. How hard can that be?
Unium, the unique and clever puzzle game by Kittehface, is available now on iOS and Android. Unium's objective is deceptively simple: draw a single line that crosses all the black tiles on the board. Flip all the black tiles to white, and the puzzle is solved. Unium...
CoD: Advanced Warfare Havoc DLC to PC and PSN in February
Havoc, the first DLC pack for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, is coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PC on the 26th February. Packed to the brim with content, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Havoc includes four new, epic multiplayer maps, access to the versatile...
Cities XXL Launch Trailer
The Cities XL franchise returns with Cities XXL, available today for download and next week in stores! Cities XXL is a bigger, more complete city-builder pushing the city limits to the edge of your imagination. Running on an improved game engine for enhanced...
Singstar gets some new music
Singstar has just release an update to their Singstore. Since the release of the new Singstar for PS3 and PS4 game consoles, it has been pretty quiet with almost no new songs being added since october last year. The team has been working hard on patching and updating...
SourceMod 1.7 released
SourceMod 1.7.0 has been officially released. SourceMod is the number one server administration tool for Source Engine games like Counter-Strike: Source, GO, TF2, Left4Dead and others. Most important changes in this version is Updated game compatibility for TF2,...
The Sims 4 Get to work Expansion
Today, EA and Maxis revealed that The Sims 4 Get to Work Expansion Pack is currently in development for PC and Mac. In the first expansion pack to release for The Sims 4, players will take active control over their Sims’ careers in three new options. They can also...
Join the circus with Incredible Circus Remix
Have you ever imagined living a day in the life of a human cannonball? Now with the new mobile platformer Incredible Circus Remix created by INDT (Instituto de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico), you don’t have to join the circus to get a taste of the action! Available...
Spotify coming to Playstation
Sony has just announced that a new service called Playstation Music is coming to the Playstation Network and the PS3, PS4 and Xperia phones this spring. The service includes a unique partnership with Spotify, bringing a new music experience to 41 countries around the...
Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns expansion
Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns will be the first expansion for Guild Wars 2. Founded on the idea that the journey is the goal, the Heart of Thorns expansion continues the Guild Wars 2 tradition of challenging the conventions of MMOs to fulfill the promise of what...
Dying Light Launch trailer
Dying Light is an action survival game presented in first-person perspective. The game is set in a vast and dangerous open world. During the day, you roam an urban environment devastated by a mysterious epidemic, scavenging for supplies and crafting weapons to help...
COD Advanced Warfare Havoc trailer
Ever wonder who’s on the other side of the KillCam? Meet Randall Higgins, the KillCameraman. With all of the mayhem-inducing content loaded into Havoc, the first DLC pack for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Randall's going to have to elevate his game to keep up. Havoc...
Battlefield Hardline beta details
Steve Papoutsis (General Manager, Visceral Games and Executive Producer, Battlefield Hardline) has today released a blog post containing initial information about the upcoming Battlefield Hardline beta. While not revealing all the details, it has been confirmed that...
COD Advanced Warfare DLC coming
The first DLC pack for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Havoc, is on the way. The epic DLC pack from Activision and Sledgehammer Games will be available first, exclusively on Xbox LIVE for the Xbox One and Xbox 360 consoles from Microsoft, beginning on the 27th...
Evolve Behemoth Trailer
From Turtle Rock Studios, creators of Left 4 Dead, comes Evolve, the next-generation of multiplayer shooters where four hunters face off against a single, player-controlled monster in adrenaline-pumping 4v1 matches. Play as the monster to use savage abilities and an...
Mortal Kombat X – Who’s Next? Trailer
Today, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and NetherRealm Studios unveiled the Who's Next? - Official Mortal Kombat X Gameplay Trailer, which shows off Mortal Kombat X’s iconic characters including a first look at Kitana, the beautiful but deadly Edenian princess,...
Play MS-DOS Games for free
Prince of Persia, Leasure Suit Larry, Wolfenstein 3D and many more titles are a few of the MS-DOS games that can be played with the wonderful service from archive.org (known for their Internet archive). The game collection includes action, strategy, adventure and...
Assassins Creed Unity DLC coming January 14
Today, Ubisoft announced that Assassin’s Creed Unity - Dead Kings, the downloadable campaign that continues Arno’s story after the events of Assassin’s Creed Unity, will be available for free to all purchasers of Assassin’s Creed Unity for the Xbox One games and...