With Armored Core V shipped, From Software's focus shifts to Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, a sequel to Capcom's Xbox mecha games controlled with the Kinect sensor and Xbox 360 pad.
The below video walks you through your Vertical Tank's controls, but no matter how well executed the Kinect implementation will be, we wonder if it can possibly match the uniquely rewarding gameplay of the originals, which required mastery of that hulking, 40-button controller.
Grasshopper Manufacture has announced Killer Is Dead, a new game directed by Goichi "Suda51" Suda which, the studio promises will retain the essence of Suda's previous assassin games, Killer 7 and No More Heroes.
Grasshopper Manufacture has announced Killer Is Dead, a new game directed by Goichi "Suda51" Suda which, the studio promises will retain the essence of Suda's previous assassin games, Killer 7 and No More Heroes.
A new PS Vita system update, version 1.66, has been released, and it fixes an issue preventing members of the PlayStation Plus service from playing Minis given away with their subscriptions on Sony's new handheld.
Harmonix has announced a return to its roots with Rock Band Blitz, a music game for the console download services that bears a more than passing resemblance to Frequency and Amplitude.
Like Harmonix's PS2 cult classics, the game is set on a multi-lane track, with players essentially travelling along the note chart. Blitz's track is split into four lanes - for, we assume, bass, drums, guitar and vocals.
Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson's new project is a space exploration game called 0x10c.
Did you cry at any point while playing Journey? If so, you’re not alone. Upon the game’s release, I noticed several testimonials cross my Twitter feed of people who claimed to be moved to tears by Thatgamecompany’s latest project. But why? The game has gorgeous stylised artwork. Then again, so did Wind Waker. And as sublimely fun as Nintendo’s cel-shaded Zelda may be, it doesn’t put a lump in your throat.
Replay Games is seeking $500,000 on Kickstarter to fund development of an HD remake of the first game in the Leisure Suit Larry series.
A remake of Sierra Games' racy adventure was announced in October, but little has been heard of it since. Replay Games, which has acquired the rights to the series from Big Software, has persuaded series creator Al Lowe to come out of retirement and oversee the project.
Capybara Games has confirmed that its iOS adventure Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is headed to PC and Mac.
A post on the game's official website reveals that the PC version will be released on Steam "before the next dark moon" which falls on April 21. The Mac version will launch "before the summer solstice," which this year falls on June 20.
Over the weekend, hundreds of developers took part in Molyjam, a 48 hour development jam based on tweets from spoof Twitter account @petermolydeux.
The jam took place across the globe in 32 cities, and Peter Molyneux himself even put in a good-humoured appearance at the London South Bank University where UK developers gathered.
Codemasters has announced plans for an ambitious expansion that will see it create 125 jobs in the UK.
Speaking to Develop, talent acquisition manager Simon Miles didn't say how quickly the jobs would be created, but did confirm that the majority of the new roles will be at the company's Warwickshire studio, with 25 new staff headed to its Birmingham offices.
With Game Group, the UK's largest specialist retailer, now seemingly saved - rescued from administration by Baker Acquisitions, advised by private equity firm OpCapita - the retailer is now well positioned to adjust, however belatedly, to the market changes that brought it to its knees.
Following yesterday's request from UK retailer Game Group, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) this morning delisted the company from the London Stock Exchange.
Investors who own shares in the company will now have to liaise with Game's administrators Price Waterhouse Cooper and may yet be remunerated. PwC issued the following statement:
Wii U will be released in the United States on November 18, and one week later in Japan, according to reports.
The claim comes from Wii U Daily, which cites an internal email circulated to staff of Media Land, a videogame retailer in Tokyo's Akihabara district. While unconfirmed, a November 18 release date would make sense given that Wii U's predecessor was released on November 19, 2006 - both Sundays. The email in question made no mention of a European release date.
Anonymous developers have poured scorn on Wii U's technical capabilities, saying Nintendo's upcoming console is less powerful than Microsoft and Sony's current-gen systems.
Speaking to Gamesindustry.biz, devs queued up to say that Wii U just wasn't up to the graphical standard of Xbox 360 and PS3.
"No, it's not up to the same level," one said. "The graphics are just not as powerful."
Capcom has defended the storage of planned DLC on Street Fighter X Tekken discs to the Better Business Bureau, arguing that there is "no distinction" between content stored on a disc or offered as a download.
UK retailer Game Group has delivered a blow to shareholders this afternoon by requesting that its shares be removed from the London Stock Exchange.
Announced this afternoon in a brief statement, the move leaves those sitting on Game stock with little prospect of a return on their investment, with a profitable sale of the company’s overseas operations their sole chance of a payout, according to MCV.
Free apps on the Amazon Appstore bring in almost four times as much revenue from in-app purchases as those on Google's own store, Google Play, a study has found.
The finding comes from mobile analytics firm Flurry, which in a new report looks at average revenue per user from a selection of the most popular free apps supported by in-app purchases available from the iOS App Store, Google Play and Amazon Appstore.
Core x group is looking for an art director to oversee the visual design and quality of the Frankfurt-based developer's latest browser games. Find all core x group's jobs here.
Core x group is looking for an art director to oversee the visual design and quality of the Frankfurt-based developer's latest browser games. Find all core x group's jobs here.
Andy Davidson, creator of beloved turn-based strategy game Worms, has returned to developer Team17 more than 14 years after he left.
"I left Team17 feeling I hadn't finished what I wanted to achieve, but for professional reasons I knew I had to walk away," Davidson said in a press release. "I've returned to scratch the creative itch that's been bothering me for the last 14 years.
Microsoft's Xbox 360 successor will require a constant connection to the internet in a bid to combat piracy, according to reports.
VG247 sources claim that Microsoft has "fully detailed" its new console to select thirdparties, with a view to launching in time for Christmas 2013. As previous reports have claimed, the console will use Blu-ray discs.
Warren Spector, creator of Deus Ex and the upcoming Epic Mickey 2: The Power Of Two, says that a new round of consoles won't help solve the most common videogame problems.
Spector is a late arrival to the current generation of HD consoles, with the sequel to Wii exclusive Epic Mickey to be his first game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. In an interview, he tells us he's far from salivating at the prospect of new hardware from Microsoft and Sony.
Looking at the explosion of social gaming and consequent attention devoted to it by industry and press, it would be easy to say that games have come full circle. For thousands of years, games were inherently social, and played with friends. Then computers came along, and with them two decades of mostly lonesome play in darkened bedrooms, until broad adoption of the Internet reversed this trend.
Created as part of Sony's PlayStation C.A.M.P. (Creator Audition Mash-up Project) initiative, which allows Japanese gamers to submit their ideas for possible development, Tokyo Jungle sees the titular city free of humans and overrun by oddly dressed, pugnacious animals.
The game mixes side-on platforming elements with stealth, combat and character customisation (those aforementioned threads, pictured below).