Indie game studio Grinding Gear Games has announced that their anticipated online action RPG, Path of Exile, has entered the second phase of its exclusive closed beta and will now open the beta up to significantly more testers. Moreover, Grinding Gear Games has just deployed a major beta patch that adds new areas, skills and enemies and rebalances the entire game. Continue reading Path of Exile enters second phase of Closed Beta→
This is really sad. Jurassic Park: The Game has the potential to be a sleeper hit, so there is definitely no reason for Telltale’s employees to try and ‘cheat’ gamers by submitting 10/10 reviews on Metacritic. Yeap, after BioWare’s employees, Telltale’s employees were caught posting user reviews on Metacritic. To be more precise, one user interface artist and one cinematic artist were those that were caught posting 10/10 reviews. All we had to do was to ‘google’ their names and find their LinkedIn profiles. According to those profiles, both of them are working on Telltale, though they are relatively new to the studio. Continue reading Telltale Employees caught posting 10/10 User Reviews for their own Jurassic Park: The Game→
Being a huge fan of pretty much every JANE’s game, I was really looking forward to Jane’s Advanced Strike Fighters. Could this be the comeback of our favorite flight sim games? Apparently not as the game is more similar to Ace Combat than to the older JANE’s sims. To be honest, it was to be expected, especially after hearing that the game would actually be a multi-platform title. And although I don’t have any problems with arcade flight games, Jane’s Advanced Strike Fighters doesn’t provide anything to justify its purchase. Continue reading Jane’s Advanced Strike Fighters PC Performance Analysis→
Now this is something that you simply can’t pass by. Super Meatboy Anniversary Pack is now available on Steam and – get this right – includes Braid, Aquaria, Machinarium, World of Goo and VVVVVV. Not only that, but this special pack comes with a 75% discount, which means that you can get all those games – and more – for the price of 22.59 euros. Continue reading Super Meatboy Anniversary Pack is now available on Steam; includes Aquaria, Machinarium and Braid→
It’s funny but I’m glad that both Batman: Arkham City and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations got delayed. In fact, I really wish that both Arkham City and Serious Sam 3 would be delayed until December as November was full of new releases. But anyway, strategy fans will be pleased to hear that Ubisoft’s strategy game, Anno 2070 has just been released on Steam. Continue reading Anno 2070 is now available on Steam→
Here is some great news for all retro fans out there. Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods, Bullfrog’s highly acclaimed strategy game is now available on Good Old Games. Populous II is more versatile and has more “divine intervention” effects than its predecessor. Populous would only bestow eight powers on the player but the sequel has thirty. The game is only 15MB in size, sports both SP and MP and is priced at 5.99 euros. Continue reading Populous 2 is now available on Good Old Games→
Sony Online Entertainment will soon launch its second Downloadable Content pack for DC Universe Online with the worldwide release of Lightning Strikes, later this year. Launching simultaneously on PlayStation 3 and Windows PC, Lightning Strikes introduces Electricity Powers – the game’s eighth power set – and a new adventure starring the iconic speedster The Flash. Continue reading DC Universe Online: Lightning Strikes coming later this year→
Rockstar released a new trailer for their action shooter game, Max Payne 3. This Design and Technology Video Series offers a detailed look at the targeting mechanics, movement and animation, enemy intelligence and other technical design innovations going into building an advanced, intense and immersive action-shooter with Max Payne 3. Max Payne 3 is currently slated for a 2012 release on current generation consoles and PC! Continue reading Max Payne 3 Design and Technology Series: Creating a Cutting Edge Action-Shooter→
Activision announced today that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has shattered theatrical box office, book and video game sales records for five-day worldwide sell-through in dollars. The game established an all-new five-day worldwide sell-through record of more than $775 million, exceeding the record of $650 million set a year ago by Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops and $550 million two years ago for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, according to Charttrack and retail customer sell-through information. Continue reading Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s sales are astounding; $775 million in five days→
Epic Games announced today an agreement with Square Enix. Epic Games will be granting Square Enix a license to develop multiple games with Epic’s award-winning Unreal Engine 3 technology. Epic Games Japan, which supports the company’s licensees locally, worked directly with Square Enix on the new license. And here comes the big question; what happened to the next-generation engine that Square Enix was working on? And why won’t the giant Japanese company use the in-house engine for their games? Figures. Continue reading Square Enix Licenses Unreal Engine 3 For Multiple Games→
