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Unreal Engine 4 update for XO and PS4
Epic Games has released the first major update to Unreal Engine 4 since its public launch as a $19 per month subscription-based service at the 2014 Game Developers Conference (GDC). With the release of Unreal Engine 4.1, all subscribers who are registered Xbox or...
Lords of the Black Sun hits Beta on Steam
Indie developer Arkavi Studios has issued a one-two punch announcement today by revealing it’s changed its name from Star Lords to Lords of the Black Sun, while simultaneously reaching the all-important Beta stage of development on Steam. The Beta features highly...
The Walking Dead: Season Two now on PS Vita
The Walking Dead: Season Two, Episode 1 - 'All That Remains' and Episode 2 - 'A House Divided' are now available for download for PlayStation Vita via the PlayStation Store in North America, with Europe coming tomorrow, Wednesday April 23. Each episode is just US$4.99...
Codemasters reveals GRID Autosport
Today Codemasters announced that the next racing game in the award-winning GRID series will be GRID Autosport, set to ship on 24th June in the USA and release on June 27th in Europe for the Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft, Windows PC from Steam...
Commodore 64: a visual commpendium
Commodore 64: a visual commpendium is a book that celebrates the beauty of the greatest home computer ever made. After a fantastic response, this campaign is now funded but it doesn’t end there. Creator, Sam Dyer, has been busy behind the scenes coming up with some...
Rabbit Hole 3D: Steam Edition this week
Zero Rock Entertainment has acquired publishing rights to Rabbit Hole 3D on PC and is bringing an enhanced version of the game ‘Rabbit Hole 3D: Steam Edition’ to Steam on 4/25/2014. Rabbit Hole 3D: Steam Edition is a minimalistic retro puzzle game developed by JK...
Putty Squad cross-buy promotion
System 3, the UK’s most successful independent publisher, is delighted to announce Putty Squad is now available digitally in a cross-buy promotion for PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 4 for a limited time. Available at one great price, Putty Squad can now be bought...
Nuclear Dawn update 7.1 released
The developers behind Nuclear Dawn, a Source engine game that combines FPS and RTS in one game that got released more than 2 years ago, just got an update to version 7.1. This version brings Linux, Mac and Windows gamers together as all platforms will be able to play...
Sony announces Playstation Now
Sony has just announced at CES 2014 that they will be launching a brand new service called Playstation Now later this year. This new service will be able to stream Playstation 1,2,3 and 4 games directly to a whole bunch of devices like TV's, Smartphones, Tablets and...
Valve Reveals First Gen Steam Machines
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Dota 2, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced over one dozen Steam Machine designs now in production from leading...
Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare Xbox One release date
PopCap Games, a division of Electronic Arts, today announced that Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare will be shipping for Xbox One all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, and Xbox 360 videogame and entertainment system on February 18, 2014 in North...
Gas Guzzlers Extreme gets an update
Videogame publisher Iceberg Interactive is releasing an update for its recently released combat racing game Gas Guzzlers Extreme (PC), via Steam. Developed by highly respected Croatian studio Gamepires, Gas Guzzlers Extreme offers extensive hi-octane single player and...
Black Mesa going commercial
Remember that awesome remake of Half-Life 1 on the Source engine called Black Mesa? Well, it seems the developers have some news after talking to Valve about their 'mod' basically making it commercial with a very good reason behind it. Down below the full post by the...
PES 2014 myPES released for iOS
Konami Digital Entertainment Inc. has extended the reach of its popular myPES social element of PES 2014, with the release of a dedicated app for iOS users, with an Android version to follow shortly. myPES was introduced in PES 2012 in a very basic form, and was...
Kromaia video released
The independent studio "Kraken Empire" has just released a one minute video showing more than three years of development of "Kromaia", a videogame that features a remarkable visual style, a franctic gameplay and an advanced adaptative artificial intelligence, recently...
Shadowrun: Dragonfall announced
Harebrained Schemes’ magic-and-cyberpunk mashup Shadowrun Returns was the first $1m+ Kickstarter-funded videogame to be released, premiering as a #1 seller on Steam earlier this year. The game, which appeared on 5 “Most Anticipated Games of 2013” lists, was also a...
Speedball 2 HD arrives full throttle on PC
Most people forget their godfather. He gets lost in the mists of time - unless of course excellent birthday and Christmas presents arrive to remind us of who he is. With Christmas heaving into view, a couple of the Godfathers of the Indie development scene have come...
Star Lords Teaser Trailer
Iceberg Interactive releases a brand new teaser trailer today for its upcoming 4x space strategy game Star Lords (PC), which is being developed by Portuguese game developer Arkavi Studios. Star Lords is an epic-sized complex and dense 4x strategy game with a deep...
Dark Matter is now available on Steam and GoG.com
Iceberg Interactive announced today it is tapping into gamers’ inner xenophobe by announcing that the action-packed horror survival side-scroller Dark Matter is available today on Steam as well as GOG.com, with other digital portals and English and German retail...
Interwave’s Dark Matter to hit Steam in mid-October
Veteran video game publisher Iceberg Interactive revealed today that its’ love affair with all things off-planet continues apace with the action-packed 2.5D survival platformer Dark Matter, coming to PC, OS X and Linux on Steam and in Western European retail...
Bionic Dues launches next week on PC, Mac, and Linux
Arcen Games (AI War: Fleet Command, A Valley Without Wind) has today announced Bionic Dues, their upcoming tactical turn-based roguelite (with mech customization), set to launch next week on Steam, their site, and other distributors for PC, Mac, and Linux. Bionic Dues...
Mutant Football League resurrects a classic gaming genre via Kickstarter
Michael Mendheim, the original creator and lead designer of Mutant League, is initiating a Kickstarter effort for a new video game entitled Mutant Football League. With fan support, and a successful Kickstarter campaign, Mendheim is planning to release his Mutant...
Outlast now live on Steam
Independent game development studio Red Barrels, founded by veterans from some of gaming’s biggest franchises, including Prince of Persia, Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell, and Uncharted, have announced that the highly anticipated survival horror game Outlast is now...
Peter Molyneaux’s Godus hits Steam Early Access on 13th September
Peter Molyneaux's new take on the god game, Godus, the spiritual successor to Populous, will soon be hitting beta stage, and gamers will be able to play it through Steam Early Access on the 13th September 2013. In announcing the impending availability of GODUS through...