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MechWarrior Online now in open beta
Infinite Game Publishing and Piranha Games announced today that MechWarrior Online, the upcoming free to play, action simulation game, is now in Open Beta. MechWarrior Online takes place in the year 3049 during the early stages of a massive interstellar war, The game...
Iron Sky: Invasion new release date announced
TopWare Interactive announces the new release date for the space combat simulation "Iron Sky: Invasion" from Reality Pump. The game will now launch on November 22nd on the PC, the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. Alexandra Constandache, CEO of TopWare Interactive:...
Deadlight Review
Tequila Works is an indie studio based in Madrid, Spain which consists of former Blizzard , MercurySteam, Pyro, Sony Computer Entertainment, and Weta Digital members, who worked on major projects like Diablo III, Heavy Rain, the Motorstorm and Commandos sagas, and...
Football Manager 2013 demo released on Steam
Sports Interactive and Sega have just announced that the demo for this year’s installment in the highly popular Football Manager franchise, which according to their say “will mark a seismic shift in the best-selling series”, is now available for download on Steam. The...
The Indie Royale Halloween Bundle is now live
The Indie Royale game bundle which brings a great catch of indie games at a fraction of their original price have just announced that the Halloween Bundle , led by the full five-episode season of Telltale Games' spooky 'Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse' along with...
Firefly Studios to launch Space Colony HD in November
Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series, has just announced that sci-fi strategy sim Space Colony is being re-released next month in the form of Space Colony HD. Space Colony HD has players build a base on different planets throughout the galaxy, defending...
Child horror adventure Lucius released
Developer Shiver Games and publisher Lace Mamba Global have just announced that Lucius, their 3D child horror adventure, is now available from Steam, GOG.com, GamerGate, and high-street and online retailers such as and Amazon, for a recommended retail price of £19.99....
Quantum Conundrum devs move onto iOS with PIXLD
Airtight Games, the team behind the acclaimed first-person puzzler Quantum Conundrum, has announced its first iOS release, puzzle effort PIXLD, coming to the App Store next week. PIXLD for iOS, described as "an addictive and deceptively simple" is a color-matching...
Deadlight launches on Steam today
Deadlight, the sidescrolling survival horror cinematic platformer that was released as an XBLA exclusive title this summer, launches today on the PC via Steam, developer Tequila Works has announced. Deadlight takes place in 1986 on the US Pacific Coast after the...
More Dishonored content on the way
Three DLC packs for Dishonored are expected to launch starting this December with Dunwall City Trials DLC. The other two packs are scheduled to arrive in Spring and fall of 2013, Bethesda has just revealed. According to the Bethblog, Dishonored: Dunwall City Trials...
Primal Carnage release date announced
Lukewarm Media and Reverb Publishing have today announced that their upcoming dinos-vs.-humans deathmatch, Primal Carnage, will launch on the PC on October 29th. Primal Carnage is an asymmetrical online-multiplayer class-based game of humans versus dinosaurs where...
Hotline Miami released
Dennaton Games and publisher Devolver Digital have revealed that their ’80s inspired top-down shooter Hotline Miami is now available for purchase on a variety of digital download retailers for $9.99. “Development has been both exciting and challenging but we can’t be...
F1 Race Stars coming on November 16th
Codemasters have today revealed that their all-new addition to its acclaimed Formula 1 gaming portfolio, F1 Race Stars, a fast and fun arcade racing game with a range of power-ups for players to collect and deploy, aimed for all ages, will launch on November 16th....
Borderlands Legends announced for iOS
2K Games and Gearbox Software today revealed that Borderlands Legends, an all-new action packed Borderlands experience designed specifically for mobile devices, will be available for iOS on October, 31 2012. Like the original Borderlands and Borderlands 2, Borderlands...
Singstar goes XMB on PS3
SingStar, the ultimate competitive singing game for PS3, will be available to everyone in SCE Europe territories (including Australia and New Zealand) as a free download straight from the XMB™ from 24 October 2012 according to Sony. Yes, that's right, no more need to...
Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse coming November 23rd
Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse will be released on the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 on 23rd November, publisher Activision has announced. Developed by liscensed game veterans Heavy Iron Studios, the outfit behind video game versions of SpongeBob SquarePants, The...
Dark Matter: Interview with InterWave
InterWave is a gaming developer studio based in Sittard, The Netherlands, who after their critical acclaimed FPS/RTS Nuclear Dawn, are working hard on their second major project titled Dark Matter, a 2.5D survival horror game inspired by Metroid, Castlevania, Resident...
Necrophone Games unveils Jazzpunk
Two person indie studio Necrophone Games have officially unveiled Jazzpunk, a retro-cyberpunk comedy adventure drawing influences from Blendo Games' Gravity Bone and Thirty Flights of Loving adventure and Naked Gun/Airplane/Hot Shots 1980s 'spoof' style. Not much have...
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams released
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, developed by Black Forest Games, is now available for purchase on Steam, GOG and GamersGate. Giana Sisters: Twisted...
DoDonPachi Maximum launching on iOS on October 26th
Having been out on Windows Phone 7 since March, DoDonPachi Maximum, the third game in the series, following DoDonPachi: Blissful Death and DoDonpachi: Resurrection, is is heading to iPad and iPhone this week, developer Cave has announced. DoDonPachi Maximum, takes...
Dark Matter on Steam Greenlight
Interwave, the creators of the acclaimed FPS/RTS hybrid Nuclear Dawn have just announced that Dark Matter, a 2.5D survival horror game inspired by Metroid, Castlevania, Resident Evil and Silent Hill, is now on Valve's Greenlight service waiting for the community to...
Anarchy Reigns launching in January
Sega have today announced that their upcoming third-person multiplayer brawler, Anarchy Reigns, developer by PlatinumGames, will launch on January 8 and 11, 2013, respectively, for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Anarchy Reigns promises to deliver over-the-top close...
Team Meat announces Mew-Genics
Indie game development duo Team Meat have a new game in the works. Designer Edmund McMillen announced that as they were working on the next Super Meat Boy for iOS and PC, they began making another title called Mew-Genics. According to their blog post, Team Meat...
Torchlight II Review
When history repeats itself then it is better to be taught from its past rather than re-producing it. This must be the general rule for Runic Games, the developers that worked on Diablo I and II, and in 2009 released Torchlight, an action RPG that shared many...