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Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien hitting consoles this month
Gaijin Games has completed work on its upcoming Bit.Trip Runner sequel, Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien, and has successfully submitted the game to Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony for certification aiming for a late February launch on the PSN, XBLA, and Wii U....
Frozen Synapse: Tactics coming to PSN
Double Eleven have revealed that they will be working with Mode 7 on a console version of Frozen Synapse. The new title, Frozen Synapse: Tactics, will be released for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita via the PSN store. Originally released in 2011, the critically...
New Sherlock Holmes game announced
The latest game in Frogwares' long-running Sherlock Holmes franchise, Crimes & Punishments, has been announced via publisher Focus Home Interactive. For the first time ever, Frogwares Studio will abandon their homemade graphics engine and will be developed on...
Sleeping Dogs Year of the Snake DLC revealed
Square Enix today announced that its award-winning undercover cop drama Sleeping Dogs will receive the Year of the Snake DLC due sometime in Q1 of 2013 on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. In Year of the Snake DLC Wei Shen's story continues as he rejoins the ranks of the Hong...
Leviathan: Warships announced
Paradox Interactive has revealed that it's working on a new title called Leviathan Warships, which is in development for PC, Mac, iOS and Android tables. Developed by Pieces Interactive, Leviathan: Warships is a a top down arcade ship combat game where players can...
IGF 2013 Preview
Back in 1998 UBM TechWeb established the Independent Games Festival in order to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize the best independent game developers. Since the IGF launch there have been many major IGF prize winners that have gone on to much...
Alien Breed reaches EU PSN on February 6th
Team17 Digital Limited have today announced that Alien Breed, the classic top-down shooter that was released in 1991 for the Commodore Amiga and later in 1993 by MicroLeague for MS-DOS will be will be available for download on the PS3 via the EU PlayStation Network in...
Grid 2 release date announced
Codemasters have today officially announced that Grid 2, the sequel to the BAFTA-award winning, Race Driver: Grid, will race into retail on May 31st for the Xbox 360, PS3, and Windows PC. With Grid 2 Codemasters aims to raise the gameplay and technological bar for...
Indie Royale’s Evolved Bundle is live
The Indie Royale game bundle which offers a great catch of PC games at a fraction of their original price have just announced that The Evolved Bundle featuring 5 great indie games valued at over $55, is now live. The Evolved Bundle includes last summer's highly...
Grand Theft Auto V coming September 17th
Rockstar Games have officially announced that Grand Theft Auto V, the fifteenth game in the series overall which was expected to launch worldwide during spring 2013 on the PlayStation 3and the Xbox 360, will now arrive four months later than originally planned, on...
3DMark for Windows Arrives on February 4th
The Windows version of the new 3DMark is finally complete and ready for release. The launch will be on Monday February 4, 2013 at 18:00 UTC Futuremark has announced. The Windows PC version of the suite includes the Fire Strike DirectX 11 and Cloud Gate DirectX 10 game...
Trion to launch Defiance on April 2nd
Trion Worlds announced today that Defiance, an online open world shooter connected to the upcoming Syfy Network television series with the same name, will launch globally on April 2nd on the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360, and Windows PC. John Burns, SVP and GM Trion...
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City out now on PSN
The original Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is now available for download on PlayStation Network as part of the PS2 Classics collection, Rockstar Games announced via the Playstation blog. Released about a year after GTA III Vice City is set in 1986 in Vice City, a...
Bohemia Interactive announces Arma Tactics
Independent Czech developer Bohemia Interactive today announced development of a turn-based close-combat strategy game entitled Arma Tactics for NVIDIA Tegra devices. Arma Tactics is a turn-based close-combat strategy game, where the player takes control of a...
Kentucky Route Zero: Act 1 Review
Cardboard Computer, the two man outfit Cardboard Computer of Jake Elliott and Tamas Kemenczy specializes in creating experimental adventures games that focus on exploring ideas rather than solving puzzles or beating up bad guys. They have released Ruins, a...
Crysis 3 multiplayer beta kicks off
Electronic Arts and award-winning developer Crytek today announced that the open multiplayer beta for the premiere sandbox shooter, Crysis 3 is now available on Origin and Xbox Live Marketplace (for Gold subscribers only), and should arrive on the EU PSN tomorrow....
Geopolitical Simulator 3 coming mid-February
Eversim send over a press release announcing the mid-February release of Masters of the World, the third version of Geopolitical Simulator of today’s world for PC and Mac. In Masters of the World: Geopolitical Simulator 3 players get to play as heads of state or...
Black Ops 2 Revolution DLC released on Xbox Live
Activision Publishing and Treyarch have announced that Revolution, the first DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops II, is available now exclusively for Xbox 360 via Xbox LIVE. The Revolution DLC offers four distinct multiplayer maps, an entirely new Zombies map and new...
Hotline Miami review
Dennaton Games is the game development union of developer Jonatan Söderström and graphic artist Dennis Wedin who with their first attempt titled Hotline Miami have probably created one of the most hyped games in recent memory. Dennaton's title is a game that combines...
War Thunder MMO Enters Open Beta
Gaijin Entertainment, the developer and publisher of the upcoming free-to-play World War II combat MMO War Thunder, has officially announced the start of the game’s open beta test in Europe, North America, and South America. “After four years of working on War...
Realms of Arkania – Blade of Destiny returns
UIG Entertainment a leading German publisher, and Attic Entertainment have today announced that Realms of Arkania – Blade of Destiny, a remake of one of the most successful German RPG’s of the 1990’s will arrive on PC in Q2 2013. Developed by Austrian developer Crafty...
Splinter Cell: Blacklist Collector’s Edition unveiled
With the release of a new video, Ubisoft today revealed the Collector’s Edition of Splinter Cell: Blacklist the latest entry of Ubisoft’s decade-old franchise. As seen on the trailer below, Splinter Cell: Blacklist Collector's Edition includes the game, a 3-channel,...
Terraria hitting PS3 and Xbox 360 this February
Terraria, Re-Logic's popular side-scrolling, action-adventure sandbox game, originally released on PC in 2011, will be released for the Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network this February publisher 505 Games has announced. The console port is developed by Engine...
Painkiller Hell & Damnation Medieval Horror DLC released
Nordic Games announced today that ‘Medieval Horror’, the first multiplayer DLC pack for Painkiller Hell & Damnation, which introduces new epic boss battles, is out now for Windows PC. “We wanted to intensify the hellish experience for players and the Medieval pack...