23 Jun
The collective nerd rage of the internet seemed to focus its energy yesterday on the discovery that digital copies of Blizzard’s Diablo III came with a potential three-day waiting period for full game access. For the first 72-hours after purchase (sometimes less, says Blizzard), players are limited to the Starter Edition of the game. Said […]
While Ben Croshaw has achieved an impressive level of internet fame with his breathless review/rants on The Escapist’s “Zero Punctuation”, his longer career as a freelance game designer has remained somewhat in shadow. Building a background of mostly straight-forward adventure titles, Croshaw is going for a larger release with his next effort: the Metroid-vania platformer […]
The four-year long battle between Bethesda Softworks (and parent company Zenimax Media) and Interplay – over the right for the latter to produce Fallout Online – has finally been settled. According to sources from Duck and Cover, Bethesda has dismissed with prejudice their suit from Interplay, a legal term which means a permanent stay of […]
11 Dec
UPDATE: Remedy has confirmed a “Q1 2012” release window for Alan Wake’s American Nightmare. As has come to be expected with a Spike TV-affiliated video game broadcast, a lot of exclusive trailers and announcements were peppered into the 2011 Video Game Awards tonight. If you missed the show – we definitely wouldn’t blame you for […]