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Indie puzzler The Bridge hitting Steam on February 22nd
The Bridge, a black-and-white 2D logic puzzle game in the style of M. C. Escher, nominationed in contests such IGF, PAX 10, Indie Game Challenge, and IndieCade, will be released on Steam of the PC on February 22, 2013 developers Ty Taylor and Mario Castañeda have...
Call of Duty: Black Ops II Revolution DLC PS3 release date
Revolution, the first DLC pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops II, which contains four new multiplayer maps, the zombies map Die Rise, and the zombie mode Turned where zombie players hunt the lone human player, arrives on the PlayStation Network on February 28th. Die Rise...
Real Racing 3 will be free, launching February 28
Electronic Arts has a release date for Real Racing 3, the latest installment in its popular racing franchise which was created by Firemonkeys Studio, the merger of Firemint studios and Iron Monkey studios. The game is scheduled for release on February 28 and will be...
The Cave Review
Ron Gilbert has been working with adventure games since his days at LucasArts, including several collaborations with Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman. Together, they developed games like Maniac Mansion, its sequel Day of the Tentacle, and the first games in the Monkey...
Slender: The Arrival coming March 26
Slender: The Arrival, the much anticipated sequel to ParsecProductions‘ first-person horror phenomenon Slender: The Eight Pages, co-developerd by the original game creator Mark Hadley and Blue Isle Studios, will launch for the PC on March 26th, and on Mac shortly...
Fishlabs announces Galaxy on Fire – Alliances
Fishlabs, the Hamburg-based developer and publisher, is working on a new Free-2-Play MMO with real time strategy elements set in the Galaxy on Fire universe. If all goes as planned, Galaxy on Fire - Alliances will be released on the App Store later this year. It will...
March of the Eagles available for pre-order
Paradox Interactive has announced that preorders for March of the Eagles are now available from major digital distributors. When placing a pre-order, gamers will receive a 10% discount off the game, as well as a free copy of Sengoku, the character driven grand...
Aliens: Colonial Marines Bug Hunt DLC coming in March
Four downloadable add-ons are currently in development for Aliens: Colonial Marines spanning new campaign and multiplayer content, Sega has announced. The first add-on, titled Bug Hunt, will be a new cooperative multiplayer mode in which players take on waves of...
Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey Kickstarter launched
Red Thread Studios have launched a Kickstarter campaign for Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey, the spiritual successor to The Longest Journey and Dreamfall, which will bring back the core team behind Dreamfall, including Ragnar Tørnquist, creator of The Longest...
Zombie Studios announces Daylight
At the DICE summit in Las Vegas, Blacklight: Retribution developer Zombie Studios announced a new horror title, Daylight. The game, built on Unreal Engine 4, will be a first person survival horror game with procedurally-generated environments in which the player takes...
Anna Extended Edition announced
Kalypso Media have just announced that an extended edition of Anna, the first-person horror game from Italian developer Dreampainters featuring more environments, more hours of game play, more puzzles, additional game play features, enhanced graphics and an improved...
Rayman Legends now coming to PS3, Xbox 360
Today, Ubisoft announced that its forthcoming title Rayman Legends, already announced for the Wii U, will also be released on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. Both versions of Rayman Legends are being developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, the same team behind the...
Focus Home Interactive and Mighty Rocket Studio unveil Obscure
Focus Home Interactive and developer Mighty Rocket Studio today unveiled Obscure, a complete reimagining of the survival-horror game with the same name from Hydravision that terrorized over a million players in the middle of the last decade. Comprised of some of the...
Triumph announces Age of Wonders 3
Turn-based strategy series Age of Wonders returns this fall a decade after Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic launched. The third installment is currently in development at Dutch studio Triumph, the developer of the first two games in the series, which went on to make the...
Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge coming to PS3, Xbox 360
Tecmo Koei today announced that Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge, the latest chapter in the famed action series, is coming to the PlayStation3 and Xbox 360. Ninja Gaiden 3 Razor's Edge is an enhanced port of Ninja Gaiden 3; whereas the original Ninja Gaiden 3 included...
Counter-Strike: Source now on Linux
While Valve is still working on bringing out as many games as possible for the Steam platform on Linux (Ubuntu), they just released Counter-Strike: Source for the platform. Team Fortess2, Half-Life and Counter-Strike 1.6 already are available for Steam on Linux but...
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter announced
The Astronauts, an indie studio comprised of People Can Fly (Bulletstorm, Painkiller) veterans, have today announced their first title, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, a game inspired the weird fiction stories and other tales of macabre of the early 20th century....
Sci-Fi MMO WildStar to release in 2013
WildStar the upcoming sci-fi MMO developed by NCsoft's Southern California-based Carbine Studios will be launching at some point in 2013 according to the game's Executive Producer Jeremy Gaffney. “We've always been focused on launching WildStar when it's ready, but we...
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams coming to PSN and XBLA this Spring
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, the successor to the 1987 Commodore 64 title Great Giana Sisters and sequel to the 2009 re-imagining Giana Sisters DS, is planned for release in the Spring 2013 timeframe on the PSN and XBLA, developer Black Forest Games has announced....
CD Projekt RED announces The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt
CD Projekt RED has officially announced the title of their next upcoming game: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Further, they've announced that this, the ultimate game in the series, will also be the final Witcher game from the studio. "People may ask if this is really going...
Real World Racing demo now available
An Open Beta Demo for Real World Racing, is now available for download at the RWR official Website http://www.realworldracing.com/, Playstos Entertainment has just announced. The demo features, Online Multiplayer up to 16 players, 3 Tracks from the final game, set in...
Impire release date announced
Paradox Interactive has announced the release date for Impire, the upcoming dungeon strategy game developed by Cyanide Studio Montreal, set to arrive on Windows PC on February 14 for $19.99. The main protagonist in Impire is Bjal-Abaddon,a demon imp who’s out to...
After Burner Climax landing on iOS
After Burner Climax the elite aerial dogfight game released in arcades in 2006 and was later ported to Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network in April 2010 will be making its way onto iOS devices Sega has revealed. After Burner Climax brings fast and frantic action,...
Richard & Alice release date revealed
Indie developers Denby/Raze have just revealed that Richard & Alice, a mysterious indie point and click adventure that tells the story of two people imprisoned in high-tech prison cells, will be released on 21st February 2013. “It’s been a long time coming. We...