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Dustforce creators unveil Spire
Hitbox Team, the developer behind the claimed indie plattformer Dustforce released last year, have returned with a new project titled Spire, an FPS about “ascending a monolithic tower of unknown origin.” According to Hitbox the internals of the tower are...
Spectraball Extended Edition released on Steam
Shorebound Studios, a small indie studio based in Atlanta, GA, have just send us word that an expanded edition of Spectraball, an indie game which combines elements of platforming, puzzle solving, is now available on Steam. Spectraball: Extended Edition is a complete...
Nicolas Games announces Afterfall: Pearl of the Wasteland
Nicolas Games have today announced the sequel to their debut title Afterfall: InSanity titled Afterfall: Pearl of the Wasteland. Afterfall: Pearl of the Wasteland is set in the far future, 63 years after a nuclear holocaust. Past societies have fallen, and what...
Fourth Set of Greenlight titles revealed
Valve has just revealed the fourth set of games to advance through Steam Greenlight and be offered worldwide distribution via the popular platform. Over 60 titles have advanced through Steam Greenlight and been offered Steam distribution agreements since Greenlight...
The Cave launching on January 23rd
Sega in a partnership with Double Fine Productions officially announced the launch date and price for the upcoming adventure game, The Cave the latest adventure created by legendary Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion designer Ron Gilbert. The Cave will be available on...
Injustice: Gods Among Us release date set
Injustice: Gods Among Us, the fighting game featuring characters from the DC Universe, is expected to launch on the Xbox 360, the PS3 and the Wii U on April 19th, Warner Bros. Interactive announced today. In Injustice: Gods Among Us gamers will be able to choose from...
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance demo hits Xbox and PS3 next week
Konami has just announced that it will release a playable demo of the eagerly-awaited Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance via PlayStation Network and Xbox LIVE Marketplace on January 23rd in most European countries. The three-stage demo will introduce players to the game's...
Starpoint Gemini 2 announced
Acclaimed publisher Iceberg Interactive and Croatian game developer Little Green Men announce that they have struck a publishing agreement for Starpoint Gemini 2. Mario Mihokovic, CEO at LGM Games says: “Starpoint Gemini 2 takes the best parts of the original game and...
Aliens: Colonial Marines available for pre-purchase on Steam
Sega, Gearbox Software and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products have just announced that the highly anticipated first-person shooter Aliens: Colonial Marines is now available for pre-purchase on Steam for 49,99€ . In Aliens: Colonial Marines players lead a group of...
Star Trek Online Season 8 coming this May
Star Trek Online executive producer Dan Stahl has today revealed that Season 8 for the licensed free-to-play MMO will be coming around May 2013. "2013 is going to be a very busy year for STO when it is said and done. Season 8, releasing in the first half of...
MotoGP 13 announced
Developer MileStone has announced that MotoGP 13 will be released on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 later this year. “We’re very proud to announce MotoGP 13. After four years, we’ve have the license again in our hands and we’d like to put all the expertise we have...
Dust 514 goes into Open Beta on January 22nd
CCP Games today announced that on January 22, 2013, Dust 514 will officially move into Open Beta, free to download and play for anyone with a PlayStation 3. The path for the DUST 514 Open Beta was paved when, on January 10th, CCP achieved the major milestone of...
Ludum Dare 25: The winners
Ludum Dare (to give a game in Latin) was founded by Geoff Howland, and held it’s first competition in April 2002. The latest competition was the 25th , and was held from December 14th until the17th, 2012. Ludum Dare 25, once again attracted developers from all sides...
Skulls of the Shogun launching on January 30th
Seattle-based indie developer 17-BIT have announced that they will be releasing Skulls of the Shogun worldwide on January 30th, 2013 for Xbox 360, Windows 8 PC, Microsoft Surface, and Windows Phone. Skulls of the Shogun is a mix of sorcery and strategy where players...
Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage 2 release date
Tecmo Koei announced today that upcoming action title ‘Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage 2’, will be released across Europe on February 8th 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. A download only Wii U version will be available a day earlier, on the 7th of...
The Free Bundle is live
The Free Bundle, an indie bundle organized by The Cabrera brothers, the developers of Cypher, is now live and is offering 5 games available for download at the price of none. “We want to give real indie developers a chance to show their work,” the brothers explain on...
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct dated
Activision, and Terminal Reality have officially announced the release date of their an all-new The Walking Dead game, titled The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, set to arrive in European shop shelves on 29th March for PlayStation 3, Wii U, and Xbox 360 and as a...
Alien Breed coming to PlayStation 3
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 PlayStation Network in...
Joe Danger blasting onto the App Store today
Hello Games, the UK based indie start-up, have just announced that the beloved motorbike stuntman Joe Danger will be blasting onto the App Store today featuring 20+ hours of gameplay, 30+ unlockable characters and all of the content of a full blown console. Speaking...
Painkiller Hell & Damnation console release date confirmed
Painkiller: Hell & Damnation, the first person shooter originally released for Windows PC in October 2012, will be available for PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 on April 5th 2013, publisher Nordic Games has announced. “We have been working around the clock to bring...
TERA goes free-to-play
Gameforge have announced today that in February 2013, the much-loved fantasy MMO TERA will be switching from the former subscription model to free-to-play. Korean developer Bluehole Studio already announced this switch in December. “We are very pleased to be able to...
A Valley Without Wind 2 demo released
Arcen Games has released a trial version of A Valley Without Wind 2 giving you the chance to try out this sequel developed for PC and Mac. There are some limitations of course as you cannot play past turn 20 or level 3 in any given world until you purchase a license...
The Indie Royale Replay Bundle Vol. 1 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 Replay Bundle Vol. 1 which gives you the chance to replay some of the greatest hits from previous Indie Royale bundles, is now live....
XCOM’s Second Wave DLC available today
2K Games and Firaxis Games announced today that Second Wave content is now available for XCOM: Enemy Unknown for Windows PC, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, for free. The XCOM: Enemy Unknown Second Wave content offers a series of advanced gameplay options...