Sunday, March 18th, 2012 | Posted by Robin Meijer | 2 Comments

In a post on the Playstation Blog, Insomniac Games has announced that The Ratchet & Clank Collection will be releasing in North America this fall, and that it will feature HD remasters of the original Ratchet & Clank, Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, and Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal. More details are included after the jump.

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Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 | Posted by Dane D | Comments Off

Night Owl Games has now officially launched the free to play hardcore strategy MMO Dungeon Overlord.  It’s located on Facebook; a platform which has in recent times exploded as a market for game development.

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 2 Comments

It’s difficult to understand how a movement only a few months old could influence the production of a game near to going gold, but Irrational Games Co-Founder and Bioshock Infinite Creative Lead Ken Levine recently admitted being inspired by the populist protestors of Occupy Wall Street. According to a Washington Post interview with Levine, the aggressive anti-authority mentality and loose organization of the Occupy movement helped solidify some of the similar motifs for Bioshock Infinite‘s Vox Populi.

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Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 | Posted by Gavin Greene | Comments Off

$70 million could publish a lot of independent game projects. That’s the kind of money Angry Birds developer Rovio Mobile has to throw around, and they have apparently been approaching other studios with indie mobile projects in need of funding. The report by Develop was circumvented by Rovio’s spokesman when asked, but the representative did hint of future plans yet unannounced in that department.

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Monday, September 5th, 2011 | Posted by Gavin Greene | Comments Off

What began as a teaser in the ticker that runs below the main menu of Deus Ex: Human Revolution became a series of numbers and symbols fresh for the fan community cracking. This started a sort of ARG that resulted in a username and password for a website that housed a cryptic screenshot featuring security footage of a gruffy looking Adam Jenson with the phrase “What is the Missing Link?”. A RSS listing from the game’s official website decodes the question: new downloadable content called – appropriately enough – The Missing Link.

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Wednesday, June 1st, 2011 | Posted by Gavin Greene | Comments Off

Sony Computer Entertainment isn’t out of the federal government’s scope yet. Congress has already sent letters to Sony demanding (and receiving) publicized answers for their tardiness in informing customers during the Playstation Network outage, and Sony has now extended another olive branch. The President of the International Sony Network Entertainment Division Tim Schaff testified on behalf of the company before a House subcommittee today in regards to the network breach and Sony’s subsequent behavior.

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Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 | Posted by Gavin Greene | Comments Off

[Initial reporting done by Eli English]

Gears of War maker Epic Games has announced that Gears of War 3 will be getting two separate limited editions, both available the same day as Gears of War 3 is released. Each edition contains the following:

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Monday, May 23rd, 2011 | Posted by Dane D | Comments Off

Robert Bowling (Creative Strategist at Infinity Ward on CoD: MW3) has just announced via his twitter; “Modern Warfare 3 world premiere gameplay trailer tonight on NBA Western Conference Finals around 6pm PT (2 am UK). I’ll link HD here.”

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Tuesday, May 10th, 2011 | Posted by Dane D | 2 Comments

In some news that’s anything but normal and somewhat unexpected for so early in an expansion pack; Activision Blizzard announced in an earning call yesterday that subscriptions for WoW were down to 11.4 million.  It was noted that the subscription base in WoW tends to change based on the consumption of current content.  Thus, the theory at the moment is that a chunk of the player based either finished or became worn out with the current content.

Given the two year gap from 11 to 12 million subscribers (October 2008- October 2010) we were already seeing signs of slowing down for the MMO behemoth considering it hit 11 million in the four years prior.  So while Activision Blizzard is playing it off like it’s not as big a deal as it seems, the recent trend seem to hint otherwise.  Very few people have currently finished all the content available at heroic difficulty, which means worn out is the likely culprit.  Perhaps players are simply getting tired of WoW after six and a half years?  If this trend continues, will we see an even larger subscription loss with the future releases of Guild Wars 2 and The Old Republic? Your thoughts!

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 1 Comment

As previously rumored, two new tablet PCs are coming from Sony, both proudly carrying the “Playstation Certified” label. Currently codenamed S1 and S2, both devices are Wi-Fi enabled and 3G compatible, with a Tegra 2 processor and front/rear facing cameras. The S1 features a traditional open-face design with a 9.4 inch screen, while S2 will have a clam-shell design with two, 5.5 inch screens.

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Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 | Posted by Gavin Greene | Comments Off

Following the footsteps of the “Resident Evil” film franchise, the producers at GK Films is looking to bring back another video game adapted film series with a new “Tomb Raider” instalment. Producer Graham King (“The Departed”, “The Town”) is reportedly spear-heading the project, which aims to hit theaters sometime in 2013. The first film in the franchise for ten years, the original big screen Lara Croft, Angelina Jolie, is not looking to return as the dual-wielding spelunker.

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Saturday, February 19th, 2011 | Posted by Gavin Greene | Comments Off

Telltale just keeps loading up on the licenses. In addition to their recent acquisition of the rights to both Image Comic’s “The Walking Dead” and Vertigo Comic’s “Fables”, the team at Telltale announced that they will be adding a reboot of the classic PC adventure series King’s Quest to their upcoming catalog. An announcement was all the company had to offer at this point in time, but did promise more information at this year’s E3.

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Thursday, December 9th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | Comments Off

The original Wolfenstein had a bit of a revenge streak to it, considering that players killed hundreds of Nazi grunts as a man named BJ Blazkowicz. But a new independent mod of the 1992 3D engine will have players faced with a much more direct struggle. Sonderkommando Revolt, set for release in early 2011, throws players into the 1944 Auschwitz concentration camp facility as Zalmen Gradowski, a titular Sonderkommando, part of a “special unit” of Jewish camp workers that aided in the killings. Surprisingly, the game boosts real-life inspiration, based on the October 1944 uprising that cost the lives of 451 Sonderkommandos and 3 higher-ranked Schutzstaffel soldiers.

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Thursday, September 30th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | Comments Off

The Game Developer’s Conference has officially opened up its line for submissions for its 2011 show, and is accepting entries up until October 14th. Applicants are free to submit entries to any of the conference’s many summits, a lineup which has been expanded to now include the GDC Smartphone Summit, which focuses on hard and software for various mobile OS. The 25th professionals-only conference will take place from February 28th to March 4th at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center.

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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 | Posted by Gavin Greene | 2 Comments

After a tremendous black-lash from fans, it appears that Blizzard has retracted its proposed Real ID forum system, which would have transitioned all Usernames on the Battle.net site to the player’s real life names. After the planned update was revealed to be pending for all existing and new users, the controversy surrounding it lead the company to issue a statement on the matter, despite its positive intentions of cutting down “temper tantrums” caused by the previous style of user-to-user interaction.

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