Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 | Posted by Robin Meijer | No Comments
In celebration of May Day, developer Trilobyte has announced that the classic puzzle-adventure The 7th Guest will be available for free on Mac OS-X and iOS today. More details are available after the jump.
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 2 Comments
After having been deemed lost for several decades, developer Jordan Mechner has recently released the full source code to the original Prince of Persia from 1989. Gamasutra reports that the source code was rediscovered by Mechner’s father, who came across a tray full of old discs, games, and three floppies on which the code was stored. More information is available after the jump.
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 | Posted by Robin Meijer | No Comments
GamesIndustry.com reports that Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore International, passed away at the age of 83 on April 8th. More information is included after the jump.
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 1 Comment
UPDATE: Tim Schafer has sent an email response on the speculation to Kotaku, stating that the project “Could happen…I have found funding on Twitter before!”
In a recent interview with the British website Digital Spy, Tim Schafer indicated that he has pitched ideas a sequel to 2005′s Psychonauts to publishers on several occasions, but has never managed to strike a deal for it. After this interview was brought to the attention of Markus ‘Notch’ Persson from Mojang AB, Persson sent a message to Schafer via Twitter, stating “let’s make Psychonauts 2 happen.” Persson later confirmed that he was serious about his offer. Though Tim Schafer has not responded publicly to the offer, a Double Fine employee confirmed to Eurogamer that some discussions were going on.
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 1 Comment
Speaking at a panel during PAX last weekend, Gearbox Software CEO said that when his studio got hold of Duke Nukem: Forever, which had been in development for over 12 years at that point, he expected to see a trainwreck, but was actually quite pleased with the work 3D Realms had done up to that point. Gearbox finished the game after one additional year of development, with Pitchford adding that he’s proud of the additions his studio made to the game.
He finished by adding that now that Gearbox has acquired the IP to the Duke Nukem franchise, the studio wants to develop its own Duke game, though that is something that would be talking about “soon, [..] but not today.” Kotaku has a transcript of all of Pitchford comments with respect to Duke Nukem: Forever, which are also available after the jump.
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Thursday, July 14th, 2011 | Posted by Mats Paasche | 5 Comments
Heads Up Display or HUD for short is a fast paced news show featuring everything you need to know about the gaming industry, and nothing more.
For the details of all the stories featured in this week’s show head to the news sections of elder-geek.com.
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 | Posted by Mats Paasche | Comments Off
Heads Up Display or HUD for short is a fast paced news show featuring everything you need to know about the gaming industry, and nothing more.
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Friday, April 8th, 2011 | Posted by Mats Paasche | Comments Off
Heads Up Display or HUD for short is a fast paced news show featuring everything you need to know about the gaming industry, and nothing more.
PS: Sorry for the rather major delay, had some equally major technical difficulties.
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 | Posted by Mats Paasche | 12 Comments
Heads Up Display or HUD for short is a fast paced news show featuring everything you need to know about the gaming industry, and nothing more.
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011 | Posted by Robin Meijer | Comments Off
Capcom has announced that it has recently released two arcade classics from 1985 for the Nintendo Wii through the Virtual Console. Both of the titles, Ghosts ‘N Goblins, and Exed Exes, are available at a 800 Wii points, or $8.
Exed Exes, is a vertically-oriented scrolling shooter that was originally released in the United States as Attack of the Savage Bees. The other title, Ghost ‘N Goblins, is a classic platformer that is widely considered to be amongst the most difficult games to beat, with the game becoming a major hit in Western territories when it was ported to the NES a few years after having been released in arcades. The current release of the game concerns a port of the classic arcade version, with the version of Ghost ‘N Goblins that was made available in the Virtual Console in 2007 being an updated version of the NES port.
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 | Posted by Robin Meijer | Comments Off
In an interview with 1Up.com, the creator of the classic Shenmue series confirmed that the concept for a possible third installment in the franchise has already been created. While he did not indicate whether the game is currently in production at Sega, he did say that in comparison to the first two installments in the series, the game would focus a lot more on the player than the actual in-game world.
A lengthy quote of Yu Suzuki can be found after the jump, as well as a link to the full interview.
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Monday, October 11th, 2010 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 2 Comments
Activision has confirmed today that one of the two remaining development teams at its wholly-owned subsidiary Raven Software has been laid off. In August 2009, another development team at Raven Software was already let go. With the current workforce reduction, only a single team of developers remains at the studio. Several unnamed sources have told Kotaku, that this remaining team focus its attention on developing downloadable content. Explaining the move, Activision stated that “with the recent completion of Singularity, Raven Software is realigning its workforce to better reflect the studio’s upcoming slate.”
Raven Software was founded in 1990 by Brain and Steve Raffel, who still remain with the studio. In 1997, the studio was acquired by Activsion. Games developed by Raven Software include Shadowcaster, the Heretic and Hexen series, the original two installments in the Soldier of Fortune franchise, Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, and two installments in the Star Wars: Jedi Knight series. This generation, the studio developed Quake 4, Wolfenstein, and Singularity, as well as multiple X-Men related games.
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Monday, October 11th, 2010 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 5 Comments
Konami and Marvel Entertainment have announced that they are currently preparing an 18-year old arcade classic for re-release on Playstation Network and the Xbox Live Arcade. X-Men Arcade, as this re-release is known, was originally released for arcade cabinets in 1992 and was simply known as “X-Men“.
The game features a set of six X-Men, including Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, Cyclops, Colossus, and Dazzler, facing off against Magneto and members of his Brotherhood of Mutants in an attempt to rescue Professor X and Kitty Pryde. X-Men Arcade will feature upgraded visuals, leaderboards, and 4-player local cooperative play, as well as 6-player online drop in/drop out coop.
Konami, the original developer of the game, has not revealed pricing information or a release date for the game. However, it was indicated that the game would be released at some point in the current year. The port is being handled by Backbone Entertainment, which previously ported games such as Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 to current-generation consoles.
A set of screenshots of X-Men Arcade is included after the jump.
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