Archives for Feb 23rd, 2012
Rating: Blacklight dev making Frogger Hyper Arcade Edition
Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition is in development for multiple platforms, a rating from the Australian classification board reveals, but that's not the news here. Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition is being developed by Zombie Studios, the team behind the heavily homicidal, shoot-em-up, bullet-frenzied ...
Alan Wake extending launch deal on Steam for another week
While Remedy has locked down a retail partner for the boxed release of Alan Wake in Europe, a North American deal still hasn't been worked out. Because of this, Remedy has decided to extend the availability of the Alan Wake collector's edition on Steam for another week. The collector's edition ...
Glide on a mountain breeze in SSX's wingsuit races
If you were a real snowboarder sliding down a mountain, and you hit a jump and started gliding in a wingsuit like you can in SSX ... dude, you'd get so many high fives that day from all the other intensive care patients. ...
Halo co-creator Alex Seropian founds Industrial Toys, focused on mobile
Halo co-creator and Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian has embarked on yet another new venture. After founding Wideload Games almost ten years ago and then joining Disney Interactive as head of game development for a few years, Seropian has now started up a company named Industrial Toys. Along with ...
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions hits iPad for $18
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions has been available on the iPhone for about seven months at this point, and when it finally launched back in August of last year we were a bit surprised by its $15.99 price tag -- the equivalent of a hundred million dollars in App Store terms. Square Enix ...
Snapshot: Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational (Vita)
There are so many games out there we couldn't possibly review them all. Welcome to Snapshot, where we tell you about games that might fall outside our usual coverage but are still something we think you should know about. Today: Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational for the PlayStation Vita. As the ...
Replica Portal gun coming from NECA in late spring/early summer
Portal has been around for about five years at this point, and over the years we've suffered countless fits of unreasonable jealousy due to the multitudes of homemade, replica Aperture Science Handheld Portal Devices floating around the Internet. Many a night have been spent fantasizing about ...
The Amazing Spider-Man lands June 26
The Amazing Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood foray into the world of movie tie-in gaming, will be released on June 26 for the 360, PS3, Wii, 3DS and DS, according to Game Informer. This is ahead of the film's theatrical debut on July 3, and seeing as the game serves as an addendum to the ...
Adam Saltsman on making a game out of The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games: Girl on Fire is what film company Lionsgate calls a "teaser game" for the upcoming movie, based on the popular books. iOS indie superstar Adam Saltsman (Canabalt, Capsule) is leading a team of other indie superstars for the App Store release, including Mark Johns and Kevin Coulton ...
Tretton hoping for half-million PS Vita sales in first three weeks of US launch
Sony's backing the Vita's US launch with a $50 million marketing campaign. The company is, as you would expect, bullish on the system's future here, with CEO Jack Tretton estimating a big impact in terms of launch window sales. Speaking with Reuters, Tretton said he would "be very pleased" if the ...
Report: Killzone studio head moves to Dead Space dev house
Guerrilla Games co-founder Arjan Brussee is leaving the Killzone to explore the Dead Space of Visceral Games. In an email obtained by Control-Online, the studio founder tells staff it's been "a great ride" and he hopes to find new personal challenges at Electronic Arts in San Francisco. Brussee had ...
EA's next basketball sim is NBA Live 13
Back in 2010, EA released a demo for an upcoming reboot of its basketball sim series, NBA Live. It was called NBA Elite 11 and the demo was, well, pretty bad -- bad enough that EA decided to cancel the game outright. Since then, we've been bugging EA about when it's going to offer another ...
Retailer taking pre-orders for God of War 4
Though it still doesn't exist officially, God of War 4 is now available for pre-order at BT Games, a South African retailer. This is the same BT Games that leaked Mass Effect 3's multiplayer and the Jak and Daxter Collection's, so there's precedence for this being more than an ambitious ...
Indie Royale's current bundle is complete in alpha edition
Indie Royale's current bundle is an amalgamation of a few popular ideas, including the online fundraiser and, well, the bundle, which has become a beast all of its own. This may sound like a contradiction -- underground developers borrowing mainstream methods -- but in fact it somehow makes this ...
Fill out a survey, get beta access to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Thousands of players already have their hot little hands on the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta, but Valve is just itching to give out more to those willing to fill out a survey. The survey is broken into two parts, a hardware survey conducted via Steam and a short questionnaire. The ...
Midway Arcade launches on iOS with Joust, Spy Hunter, more
Midway -- well, Warner Bros. since there's no Midway anymore -- joins the group of publishers releasing iOS compilations of classic games. The 99-cent Midway Arcade app includes emulated versions of Spy Hunter, Rampage, Joust, Root Beer Tapper, Defender, and Arch Rivals, along with "Air Hockey, ...
Your guide to Mass Effect 3's Kinect voice commands
Microsoft sent out a printable "cheat sheet" for Mass Effect 3's Kinect voice commands. You can get the full image after the break. We have to ask -- if you need a "cheat sheet," is this interface really that intuitive? ...
Report: Medal of Honor: Warfighter is Danger Close's next game, hits in October [updated]
EA's been teasing the next Medal of Honor for some time now, so it's not a huge surprise to hear more about it on Twitter. Game Informer's Jim Reilly spent the past half hour sharing some info, saying the game is called "Medal of Honor: Warfighter," is arriving this coming October, and runs in ...
Shoot Many Robots starting March 13
Your pathological hatred of robots will finally have an outlet on March 13, when Ubisoft and Demiurge Studios release Shoot Many Robots on PSN for $10. An XBLA version follows the next day. The previously announced PC version was not mentioned in the press release -- but it'll be later, because ...
Lego-ized animation of 2011's biggest games
Created by Alex Kobbs for the 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, this three-minute bit of Lego stop-motion opened the show. The montage covers 15 games and took about three months to complete. For more on the conference, check out our coverage. ...
NintendoWare Weekly: Nintendogs + Cats demo, 2 Fast 4 Gnomz
If we were to design a Nintendogs + Cats demo, it would go something like this: you walk into a virtual pet store to meet a new puppy, wearing an adorable bow. The proprietor lets the pup out of its cage to play with you, and the dog can't hide its excitement to run and play with all the toys in ...
Yes, there is a Del Taco / Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet crosspromo
Look, sometimes things just happen and there's no explanation, okay? The universe is random and we're all going to have to come to terms with the fact that rhyme and reason are a luxury we're not always afforded. There's an Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet promotion going on at Del Taco right now and ...
Dreamcast's Jet Set Radio coming to XBLA/PSN
Sega didn't have to use the words "Jet," "Set," "Radio," (or "Grind") in this teaser video for its next HD port of a Dreamcast classic. It also didn't have to use the little radio logo, but it did. From the very first drumbeat, hundreds of hours of Dreamcast time spent trying to infinitely grind ...
AC: Revelations' 'Lost Archive' DLC dives into the life of Subject 16
You remember that weird dude in Assassin's Creed: Revelations' Animus hub world? The one with all the ridiculous existential questions, who had clearly lost his mind many moons before Desmond's arrival? Apparently that dude is the focus of the next DLC pack for AC: R, The Lost Archive, as a ...
DICE details next big Battlefield 3 fix list
With frustrations in the Battlefield 3 community bubbling into possible action, DICE has released a Homeric list of "confirmed fixes and tweaks" that the developer has been working on. The released list of planned changes, which does not currently have an estimated time of arrival, covers Xbox ...
Sine Mora shoots up XBLA on March 21
Sine Mora, the time-bending shooter from Grasshopper Manufacture and Digital Reality, finally has a release date, and it's sooner than you think. The game will be released exclusively on XBLA on March 21. The date was revealed in something of a roundabout way, as developer Digital Reality held a ...
Portabliss: Dillon's Rolling Western (3DS)
Did you know that you can download handheld games now? That's amazingly convenient! The only inconvenient part of it is finding the right games to buy -- and that's where we come in, with our Portabliss column. In each installment, we'll tell you about a downloadable game on the iPhone, iPad, ...
PSA: Vita Facebook app now available
You might have downloaded Flickr and Twitter last night, but your Vita's social (networking) life was still missing one crucial component as of yesterday: a dedicated Facebook app. Well, now that's been taken care of, as you can head to the PlayStation Store and download the app. The official ...
PixelFoundry founded by EA Tiburon vets, first game is PC title BlackSpace
EA Tiburon vets Volga Aksoy and Jerry Phaneuf have established new studio PixelFoundry down in Orlando, Florida. The two-man team is currently working on a PC title called BlackSpace, which they plan to launch on digital distribution platforms "as soon as possible." "I personally am a huge fan of ...
The Joystiq Indie Pitch: The Secret Castle
Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We at Joystiq believe no one deserves to starve, and many indie developers are entitled to a ...
Metroid coming to Japan's 3DS eShop on Feb. 29
Japan's 3DS eShop is getting the NES classic, Metroid, next week on February 29. Metroid is one of many free NES titles available to qualifying 3DS Ambassador Program participants (i.e. early 3DS adopters). Everyone else will have to hand over ¥500 ($6) to navigate the deadly wilds of the ...
Tiny Tower mission pokes fun at Zynga and Dream Heights
Tiny Tower gets a new mission every Wednesday, and they're usually simple, themed tasks which players must complete for bonus Tower Bux, the game's currency. This week, a mission called "Beware of Dog" takes a shot at Zynga's clone, Dream Heights. "After failing to buy your tower, a rival developer ...
Peep this European 3DS release schedule
The 3DS is banging on all cylinders these days. While this morning's most intriguing development is still clouded in mystery, there's still quite a bit on the immediate horizon for people to be excited about, especially for our friends across the pond. Planning is essential when confronted with a ...
Battlefield 3: Aftershock pulled from App Store
Battlefield 3: Aftershock is MIA from the iOS App Store due to a lack of quality. IGN got a hold of a communique from EA, in which the publisher stated it is committed to delivering quality mobile entertainment and, therefore, decided to remove the game. An EA spokesperson said the company is ...
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