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Indie Royale’s Debut 4 Bundle is live
The Debut 4 Bundle, the latest collection of great indie titles from Indie Royale is now live. There are six featured games: Block Story, ASA: A Space Adventure, "Beware Planet Earth!", Diadra Empty, Bollywood Wannabe and Undead Legions and also a lyrical bonus album...
Anuman Interactive announces Lucky Luke: Transcontinental Railroad
French publisher Anuman Interactive has today announced the development of a new game: Lucky Luke: Transcontinental Railroad, a Time Management game where you will have to buid a railroad linking the East to the West of America. As the site supervisor of this titanic...
SourceMod 1.5 released
MetaMod: Source 1.10 and SourceMod 1.5 have been released. Both gameserver plugins have been active for a very long time and give server administrators of Source engine based servers (HL2) the ability to add administration functionality and other cool plugins to their...
Shadow Warrior coming to PC on September 26th
Devolver Digital has announced that the reboot of the 1997 ninja FPS Shadow Warrior from developer Flying Wild Hog (Hard Reset) will be arriving on the 26th September. It'll be released on the usual digital distribution sites including Steam, GoG.com, Humble Store,...
Battlefield 4 Premium DLC revealed, beta coming in October
Electronic Arts has announced that the Battlefield 4 beta will be going live in early October. The beta is exclusive to Battlefield 3 Premium subscribers, gamers who preordered Battlefield 4 Digital Deluxe and owners of Medal of Honor Warfighter Digital Deluxe and...
Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs release date
The follow-up to 2010's Amnesia: The Dark Descent, has a release date, September 10th that is. Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs is available now for pre-order through Steam and GOG with a 20% discount. A Machine for Pigs carries on Amnesia's brand of first-person horror,...
CS: GO launches Arms deal update
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the release of The Arms Deal Update for its tactical first-person shooter Counter-Strike:...
Football Manager 2014 unveiled
Sports Interactive and SegaEurope Ltd. today unveil Football Manager 2014 which promises to be the most feature-packed and technically advanced release in the series’ history as it will feature more than 1,000 improvements and enhancements over its most recent...
Iceberg to publish Dark Matter
Haarlem, The Netherlands – 14 August 2013 – Publisher Iceberg Interactive and game developer Interwave Studios are delighted to announce having signed a worldwide publishing deal for Dark Matter (PC, Mac and Linux), a side-scrolling survival horror game to be released...
Gas Guzzlers Extreme announced
Gas Guzzlers Extreme, the followup to the car combat game Gas Guzzlers Combat Carnage has been announced by Iceberg Interactive. According to Iceberg Interactive the sequel now features a 12 hour single player campaign, along with 200+ miles of road across 40 tracks,...
Pac-Man Championship DX+ hitting Steam on September 25th
Pac-Man Championship DX+ will be landing on Steam on the 25th September, three years after the console version was released back in November 2010. DX+ doesn’t seem to actually have any features over the DX version previously released on consoles, but those who...
Arma 3 releases on September 12
Bohemia Interactive today announced the release date for its upcoming tactical military shooter, Arma 3. Available in digital and physical retail stores worldwide, Arma 3 will launch on Thursday September 12, 2013. Arma 3 will ship with the large open terrains of...
Paradox Interactive announces War of the Vikings
Paradox Interactive has announced War of the Vikings, an all-new multiplayer game built upon the technology of Paradox’s medieval squad combat title War of the Roses where players must band together on the battlefields of 9th and 10th Century England and fight to...
Blackpowder Games announces Betrayer
Seattle-based indie game developer Blackpowder Games has revealed Betrayer, an atmospheric first-person action adventure game for the PC that takes you to the New World at the turn of the 17th century. Betrayer is the self-funded debut of the studio, which was founded...
SideQuest Studios’ RPG Rainbow Skies coming to PSN next year
Today, indie game publisher and developer eastasiasoft and development partner SideQuest Studios announced that their upcoming role-playing game Rainbow Skies is coming to the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Vita in 2014 featuring cross-play support. “We have...
Namco Bandai Games unveils Ace Combat Infinity
Namco Bandai Games today unveiled that Ace Combat Infinity, the first free-to-play game in the Ace Combat series, is coming later this year via PlayStation Network exclusively as a free download for PlayStation 3. The game combines a precise near future world setting...
The Elder Scrolls Anthology announced
Bethesda unveiled an anthology version for its The Elder Scrolls series. This anthology version will feature all five critically-acclaimed ‘The Elder Scrolls’ games, plus official add-ons – packaged together in an exclusive premium collector’s set. In short, The Elder...
Gaijin Entertainment announces Skydive: Proximity Flight
Gaijin Entertainment developers collaborated with legendary skydivers Jokke Sommer, Andrey Boldyrev and Halvor Angvik to bring the exhilaration and danger of extreme sport base jumping to life in the shape of Skydive: Proximity Flight. Skydive: Proximity Flight is a...
BioShock Infinite Clash in the Clouds DLC released; future plans revealed
2K and Irrational Games announced today that BioShock Infinite: Clash in the Clouds, the first downloadable content pack for BioShock Infinite, is available for download worldwide starting today on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC. BioShock Infinite: Clash...
CS:GO Compound by Xanthi
Our very own Jeroen aka Xanthi has released his brand new version of the Compound map for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Compound is a large open hostage map that features improved graphics, extended routes and more when compared to the original for Counter-Strike:...
Batman: Arkham Origins multiplayer revealed
Earlier today Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment confirmed that Batman: Arkham Origins will ship with a mode that allows players to take the franchise’s award-winning gameplay online to play with friends and foes. Called Invisible Predator...
Guacamelee! Gold Edition coming to Steam on August 6th
The hit Mexican wrestler-themed side-scrolling action game Guacamelee! is coming to Steam on the 6th August, as a Gold Edition which will include the two released DLC packs for the PSN version. The two DLC packs include the Costume Pack and The Devil’s Playground. The...
The Humble Deep Silver Bundle launches
Humble Bundle's latest bundle, the Humble Deep Silver Bundle, gives you six games and a bunch of DLC from publisher Deep Silver for a nice low price. For two weeks you can pay however much you want for this pile of remarkable games on Steam for Windows: Saints Row:...
Elder Games announces Meridian: New World
Indie developer Elder Games has announced a new science fiction real-time strategy game, Meridian: New World. In the game the player takes on the role of Daniel Hanson, who is the commander of the first expedition to planet Meridian. In his exploration, he discovers...