GameIndustry.biz has a very interesting editorial article on how the dire economic situation™ might stifle creativity in the industry following the risk associated with commercial failure of products based on newly developed IPs such as Dead Space & Mirror’s Edge. Luckily, there’s light at the end of the tunnel as, with the avenues for distribution […]
To celebrate the release of The Last Remnant on PC, Square Enix have given everyone the opportunity to see if they like it before having it locked to their Steam account for ever and a day (the game uses Steamworks for save games, possibly giving SteamCloud more too do that just store L4D & TF2 […]
After a week long Twit-a-thon via some subtle (and some not-so-subtle) tweets, Good Old Games have announced that they are bringing classic Apogee titles, including Duke Nukem 3D to their protection-free geriatric software love fest… Wait, that just sounds wrong… Press release after the hop.
Lots of sudden indie news out there… Firstly, Braid is coming to the PC via. Steam, Impulse and (unless I missed the announcement) a further un-named service (probably Greenhouse, see below) for the sum of $14.99/£9.99/€12.99 on March 31st (well, that’s the Steam date anyway). In addition, Hothouse Games, of Penny-Arcade Adventures fame, are handling […]
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Quake Live Beta… erm… Live!
In a case of doing what it says on the tin, John Carmack’s pet project that is the browser-based offshoot of Quake 3 has now officially entered Beta and can be played at the official site located here. Impressions will come later, at a time when playing it in a browser will not get the […]
It’s been a while, what with Left 4 Dead throwing a spanner into the works, but Valve are back on track with the Team Fortress 2 updates with The Scout Update. Just like The Heavy Update, information is being dripfed over the next week and this post will be updated accordingly. Skip the jump for […]
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Steam delivers Remnant to the PC
In what seems like a resurgence in love of the PC following Capcoms announcement that pretty much all their upcoming releases are coming to the PC, Square Enix are bringing their recent Unreal 3-engined Action RPG, The Last Remnant, to the PC on March the 24th via Valve’s Steam platform. Press release (& now trailer) […]
Andrew Bryant steps out of the radioactive post-apocalyptic frying pan and into the freezer.
Epic have started drip-feeding information about the mega update due in March. The update brings a shedload of maps, 2 new character models, nearly 60 achievements (courtesy of the games recent Steamworks update & the PS3 Trophy system) and a (literally) massive new mutator called ‘Titan’ which allows players to morph into Titans & Behemoths […]
Those lovable scamps at GameTrailers have the exclusive on the Survivor Pack add-on for Left 4 Dead (skip to the final chapter if you don’t care about the GTAIV DLC). There’s no footage of the new Survival mode (just lots of Dead Air & Death Toll Versus gameplay), but it turns out it is basically […]