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Endless Space: Disharmony will hit Steam on 26th of June
Amplitude Studios has just announced that they have entered the last stages of development for ‘Disharmony’, the first official expansion to their 4x space strategy hit Endless Space which will launch on Steam on June 26th 2013 for € 9,99. Endless Space: Disharmony...
Garry’s Mod creator ‘Rust’ enters Alpha
Garry's Mod creator Garry Newman is working on a first-person open world survival game, Rust, which can best be described as a cross between Minecraft and Day Z. Gameplay includes driving, chopping down trees, killing chickens and, of course, zombies. As Newman...
Akaneiro: Demon Hunters now available via Steam Early Access
Spicy Horse Games announced today that Akaneiro: Demon Hunters, the Japanese reimagining of the tale of Red Riding Hood, is now available for PC, Mac, and Linux gamers via Steam Early Access. The Steam version of Akaneiro: Demon Hunters was made possible by thousands...
Size Five Games’ Gun Monkeys coming to Steam
Gun Monkeys, the procedurally-generated multiplayer monkey deathmatch shooter from BAFTA-winning Size Five Games is coming to Steam jam-packed with all sorts of Achievements, Leaderboards, Trading Cards and loads of stats and info about your own personal squad of...
XCOM: Enemy Unknown coming to iOS this Thursday
2K and Firaxis Games announced today that the Game of the Year award-winning strategy title XCOM: Enemy Unknown is coming to iOS devices this Thursday, June 20. XCOM: Enemy Unknown for iOS will be a universal app featuring GameCenter and iCloud support. Utilizing the...
Poker Night at the Inventory 2 Review
Telltale released Poker Night at the Inventory on November 22, 2010 to much critical acclaim.The game, that featured four crossover characters: Tycho from the Penny Arcade web-comic, Max from the Sam & Max franchise, the Heavy Weapons Guy from Team Fortress 2, and...
Company of Heroes 2 demo now available
Company of Heroes 2 has just released its E3 demo to the public. New players will need to download the open beta from the game’s page on Steam. The demo which is part of the game’s campaign and comes from a mid-game mission called The Land Bridge to Leningrad, where...
Joe Danger and Joe Danger 2 coming to Steam on June 24th
Hello Games, the UK based indie start-up, have just announced that the beloved motorbike stuntman Joe Danger will bring both his games, Joe Danger and Joe Danger 2: The Movie, onto PCs via Steam on June 24th along with brand new features and content. “For the PC...
UnEpic now available on Steam
Francisco Téllez de Meneses and EnjoyUp Games have announced that Unepic, a mixture of platform game, role game and joke that takes place in a huge castle of medieval fantasy is now available on Steam as part of the platform's Early Access programme. As the developers...
The Evil Within gameplay video released
During E3 the first gameplay footage from The Evil Within was unveiled. It was part of Sony's PlayStation E3 LiveCast. The Evil Within is published by Bethesda Softworks and is developed by Shinji Mikami - creator of the seminal Resident Evil series and Tango...
Polytron announces Fez 2
Fez 2 is in development according to an announcement by Polytron at the Horizon indie game press conference at E3 2013. No other details about the game have been revealed apart from the logo for the in-development title. Shortly after announcing the game Polytron...
NeocoreGames announces The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II
After a successful release of The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, NeocoreGames has announced that it's working on a sequel for the popular gothic-noir steampunk action-RPG. The game is in development for the PC and will allow returning fans to import their...
Deadfall Adventures coming September 27th
Nordic Games today announced that the release date for Deadfall Adventures has been confirmed as September 27th and will be available on the Xbox 360 and Windows PC. Developed by The Farm 51 Deadfall Adventures will feature a single player campaign, multiplayer battle...
Aksys Games unveils Magus
Aksys Games announces Magus an action RPG co-developed with Black Tower using Unreal Engine 3. The game has players on a quest to discover who Magus is, and why he has been imprisoned in a tower in the Waterfall Kingdom and tortured for years. When a new prisoner...
Bohemia Interactive announces Take On Mars
Czech Republic-based developer Bohemia Interactive has announced Take On Mars, the latest in the Take On series. This game puts you in the role of a science-driven Space Agency exploring the scarred face of another world where you will journey through rocky terrain...
Early Access version of ‘Magrunner Dark Pulse’ now available
A week from its release on PC, Magrunner Dark Pulse, the action/physics game is playable today as an Early Access version on Steam for players who have pre-ordered the game. Magrunner: Dark Pulse is a first-person action puzzle game set in a cyberpunk reimagining of...
Telltale Games announces The Walking Dead: 400 Days
Telltale Games and Robert Kirkman, the creator and writer of The Walking Dead for his Skybound imprint at Image Comics, announced today that the The Walking Dead: Season One is set to receive an all-new installment as downloadable content titled The Walking Dead: 400...
Tom Clancy’s The Division announced
Besides unveiling The Crew at the E3 in Los Angeles, Ubisoft also announced the development of Tom Clancy’s The Division, an online, open-world RPG, for the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 from Sony, coming in 2014. The Division takes place in New York three weeks...
Ubisoft unveils The Crew
Ubisoft has just unveiled The Crew, a revolutionary action-driving game, developed by Ivory Tower in collaboration with Ubisoft Reflections exclusively for next-gen consoles and high-end PCs, that “leverages the new hardware capabilities to connect players online like...
Post-apocalyptic open world action game ‘Mad Max’ announced
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has just announced Mad Max , a new open world, third-person action game where players become Mad Max, a lone warrior in a savage post-apocalyptic world where cars are the key to survival. “ Mad Max places gamers directly into the...
EA announces Star Wars: Battlefront
Star Wars: Battlefront was officially announced by Electronic Arts and DICE in a brief teaser trailer that shows some action on the planet Hoth and concludes with the foot of an AT-AT Walker stomping down on the ground. This is the first title to be announced as part...
Dead Rising 3 announced
The third installment in Dead Rising 3, one of the most popular zombie game franchises ever, with more than 5.4 million units sold worldwide to date, is coming this November as an Xbox One exclusive, Capcom has just announced. Set 10 years after the events of “Dead...
2D classic slash-em-up Mirage announced
A.R.E.S. publisher Origo Games has announced a new localized action-platformer from Beijing indie S-Game called Mirage coming this summer to Steam, NVIDIA's Shield and more. In the game you get to control Soul and Shang two assassins who have one night to eliminate an...
Free-to-play Tekken Revolution launches on PSN tomorrow
Namco Bandai has announced a brand new Tekken game coming out exclusively on PlayStation 3. Tekken Revolution will be coming to the PSN tomorrow and will be free-to-play. The publisher promises players can choose from an initial cast of eight iconic Tekken characters...