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Animantz and Dysotek announce Deadly Walkers
Animantz (India) and Dysotek (Italy) today unveiled Deadly Walkers for Mac and PC, a zombie FPS inspired by the old zombie movies, like Dawn of the Dead (1978). The game tells the story, of an apocalyptic plague spreading in the city of London through the eyes of a...
Gun Commando coming to iOS this April
Dutch indie developers Abstraction Games and UK-based Ripstone Publishing announced today that the action-packed first-person-shooter Gun Commando will find its way to the App Store. Originally released on the PSVita in January 2013, Gun Commando is a first-person...
Agarest: Generations of War coming to PC
Ghostlight, a European publisher that aims to localize acclaimed Japanese games on the PC, announced its first effort today, the strategy JRPG Agarest: Generations of War which is now available on Steam Greenlight hoping to gather enough votes in order to become part...
Company of Heroes 2 available for pre-order
Sega has announced that preorders of Company of Heroes 2 are now being accepted, and those who prepay will be receiving additional in-game bonus content for free. Eligible pre-order customers will receive two new multiplayer commanders. According to the press release,...
Activision details Call of Duty: Black Ops II Uprising DLC
Activision has announced the second premium offering of Downloadable Content for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Uprising, which will be hitting Xbox Live Marketplace on the 16th April 2013. Other platforms will receive it later. The DLC will include four new multiplayer...
Evoland now available for PC and Mac
Following its approval by the Greenlight Community, French based indie studio Shiro Games has just announced that its action-adventure game Evoland, an enhanced version of the winner of the 24th Ludum Dare competition, is now available on Steam for both PC and Mac,...
Deep Silver unveils Ride to Hell franchise
Publisher Deep Silver (Dead Island, Saints Row) today unveiled a brand new franchise titled Ride to Hell. Ride to Hell will spawn three games full of bare-knuckle violence, seedy strip clubs, and rip-roaring motorcycles, this summer on your PC, PS3, Xbox 360, and...
Cult classic platformer Another World released on Steam
Publisher Focus Home Interactive, has just announced that Another World (Out of this World in the US) the classic platformer that has attained cult status among critics and sophisticated gamers alike for its cinematic effects, sound and cut scenes, is now available...
RaiderZ: Broken Silence expansion is now live
Perfect World Entertainment today announced the launch of RaiderZ: Broken Silence, the first expansion in the monster-hunting 3D fantasy MMORPG. The Broken Silence expansion increases the level cap to 40 and introduces the new region of Cowen Marsh. "We are excited...
Tecmo Koei announces Dynasty Warriors 8
Tecmo Koei Europe today announced Warriors 8, the next instalment of the fan-favourite tactical action franchise. As with previous titles of the series the game will follow the stories of the kingdoms of Wei, Wu, Shu and Jin through the actions of historical military...
Duke Nukem II released on iOS
D Realms and Interceptor Entertainment, the studio behind the Rise of the Triad reboot, just revealed that Apogee’s 90s classic Duke Nukem II, a side-scrolling game that lets you guide Duke across 32 action-packed levels, blasting the living crap out of every alien...
Sacred Citadel coming to PSN on April 16th
Southend Interactive and publisher Deep Silver have officially announced that Sacred Citadel, the next entry in the Sacred series that will serve as a prologue to Sacred 3, will be available on PSN on April 16th, 2013 for $14.99. Unlike the original Sacred games,...
Thief ‘Out of the Shadows’ trailer now available
Eidos-Montréal, the award winning studio behind the critically acclaimed Deus Ex: Human Revolution, today revealed the first trailer for Thief. The video confirms that developer Eidos Montreal has drafted in a new voice actor to play series star Garrett, with previous...
Stealth Bastard Deluxe coming to PS3, PSVita this Summer
Curve Studios’ fast-paced stealth platformer Stealth Bastard will be following their recent publishing projects Thomas Was Alone and Lone Survivor to PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita this summer. The PlayStation version will feature updated HD graphics designed to...
Telltale Games announces Poker Night 2
Telltale Games has officially announced Poker Night 2, the sequel to 2010's Poker Night at the Inventory, featuring some of the biggest personalities in gaming, film, and animation. These include star Claptrap from Borderlands, Brock Samson from The Venture Bros., Sam...
Cart Life Review
Until a few months back the truth is that not so many people were familliar with Cart Life, but over the last few days it is the talk of the indie town as the game won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize from the Independent Games Festival beating indie gems like Faster...
Creative Assembly reveals free-to-play Total War: ARENA
During his session at GDC 2013 in San Francisco, Creative Assembly's Lead Designer James Russell revealed Total War: ARENA, a new spin-off for the Total War series and CA’s first title in a F2P model. According to the studio, Arena will "offer players the chance to...
Arcen Games announces Exodus Of The Machine
Arcen Games, the developer behind AI War: Fleet Command, and A Valley Without Wind, has just revealed their next project titled Exodus Of The Machine, a new strategic journey that takes place in the universe of the cult classic AI War: Fleet Command. “Exodus combines...
Future acts for Kentucky Route Zero dated
The second act of Kentucky Route Zero, Cardboard Computers’ adventure game that won the Excellence in Visual Art at this year's IGF is due out in April the developer has revealed. Cardboard are sticking with a three-month schedule for releasing new content, which...
Double Fine’s Broken Age gets a teaser trailer
Double Fine has released a teaser trailer for its upcoming , record-setting Kickstarter adventure game,Broken Age formerly known as the Double Fine Adventure, a point-and-click adventure telling the stories of a young boy and girl leading parallel lives. The girl has...
Injustice: Gods Among Us demo landing next week
Warner Bros. Interactive has announced that the demo for their fighting game featuring characters from the DC Universe , Injustice: Gods Among Us, will be landing on the 2nd April on PlayStation Network in North America and the 3rd April on Xbox Live Marketplace and...
Telltale and DC Entertainment announce The Wolf Among Us
Telltale Games, in cooperation with DC Entertainment, today revealed The Wolf Among Us, a game based on Bill Willingham’s award-winning comic book series ‘FABLES’, one of DC Entertainment’s longest-running series published under its Vertigo imprint since 2002 which...
IGF 2013: The Winners
The Independent Games Festival was established in 1998 by the UBM Tech Game Network to encourage the rise of independent game development and to recognize the best independent game titles, in the same way that the Sundance Film Festival has honored the independent...
First gameplay trailer for Age of Wonders III released
The first gameplay trailer for Age of Wonders III, the third installment in the Age of Wonders franchise, currently in development at Dutch studio Triumph, the developer of the first two games in the series, which went on to make the Overlord games, has just been...