Minecraft developer Mojang is to live-stream a 60-hour game jam this weekend, with all funds donated to charity through organisers of the Humble Indie Bundle.
The Humble Bundle Mojam kicks off at 10am CET this Friday. Those who donate during the event will be given a copy of the resulting work.
In issue 238 of Edge, out now, we look at what cloud gaming company Gaikai's Smart TV deal with technology manufacturer LG means for the future of gaming, and indeed the traditional notion of a console. Here we present an extended interview with Gaikai founder David Perry on what this new era means for core gamers and why platform exclusives will soon be an outdated concept.
Edge's Future Publishing stablemate Nintendo Gamer, formerly known as NGamer, has launched a new website.
Nintendo-gamer.net will bring the magazine's honesty, authority and - it says here - "irreverent humour" to the web. An early highlight is this gallery of dogs dressed as Nintendo characters.
Prince Of Persia creator Jordan Mechner is remaking his breakout hit, 1984 Apple II game Karateka, for Xbox Live Arcade and SEN.
Speaking to VentureBeat, Mechner confirmed that the remake will be his first full-time development job since Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time. He has spent the interim writing for graphic novels, and wrote and directed 2003 documentary Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story.
Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch, the PS3-exclusive Level 5 RPG, will not be released in Europe until the first quarter of 2013.
Publisher Namco Bandai has confirmed that the game, a collaboration with revered Japanese anime company Studio Ghibli, will be released with a choice of Japanese or English audio, with subtitles in French, Italian, German and Spanish, according to Eurogamer.
UPDATE: The full list of PS2 games, taken from the PlayStation Blog, is below the video.
Clover Studios' PS2 brawler God Hand will today be released for PS3 on the PlayStation Store.
The launch on the Capcom-Unity blog. Also available are Maximo and Maximo Vs Army Of Zin. All are priced at £7.99 / €9.99.
Once one half of Lee & Herring, the comedy partnership behind TV shows such as Fist Of Fun (recently released on DVD), Richard Herring has spent the past decade writing and performing solo stand-up shows while also appearing on the TV panel-show circuit and launching hit podcasts such as As It Occurs To Me.
Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson has told Tim Schafer he would have no problem stumping up $13 million to fund development of a Psychonauts sequel.
The Japanese release of Duke Nukem Forever has been delayed by three weeks to March 29.
Andriasang reports that the Gearbox shooter, released in the west last June after being stuck in development hell for 14 years, has been delayed because publisher Take-Two wants to "deliver a better product." We're not sure three weeks will be enough.
Sony has confirmed it will shut down PSP's comic book download service at the end of September.
The service, announced in 2009 and cancelled in the west last July, will no longer be updated from March 15, though the comic reader app will be available until the end of the year.
Hooray for indie revivalism! Boo to the 600-man triple-A sweatshops! But hold on - maybe there’s something to be said for mass market gloss. If any game were going to make the case for buffing a design to a bland, focus-tested finish, it would be its exact counter-example: the indie voxel shooter Cell: Emergence, which stages its visually incoherent action on a bewildering biological metaphor and then outfits it with inarticulate controls.
Credit where it's due: it's a fine idea. A cheerfully camp multiplayer FPS starring teams of Batman and Joker impersonators on a budget, with Call Of Duty's rank-and-unlock system and an extensive layer of character customisation that not only affords variety and individuality but also opens the door for publisher-sating microtransactions.
Apparently mindful of the time it takes to reach Xbox Live’s Indie Games store, let alone purchase a game from it, Milkstone Studios has ensured this accomplished little top-down racer has you driving within seconds. It’s one of several smart choices from a developer evidently not dissuaded by Microsoft’s seeming marginalisation of the service.
Unity 3.5 has been released, Unity Technologies has announced. The latest version adds major new features and a host of tweaks to existing ones.
Street Fighter X Tekken will be released for PC on May 11, publisher Capcom has confirmed.
It means PC players will get their hands on Capcom's Namco crossover more than two months after console players. The game will be released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 9.
Zynga's first financial results since it became a public company reveal an annual loss of $404 million (£257.2m).
Revenue in 2011 totalled $1.14 billion (£725.2bn), almost double the company's earnings in 2010. That year, the company posted a profit of $90.6 million. The huge loss means that investors holding Zynga stock have made an annual loss of $1.40 per share.
Charles Cecil, creator of the Broken Sword series, plans to make a social game, saying that someone needs to build on Zynga's work in popularising the genre by making it "more sophisticated."
The Serious Games Association, set up to support the burgeoning sector of serious games, which are designed for use in professional fields including healthcare and the military, is now open for membership.
As well as access to conferences and networking opportunities, membership offers a free listing in the Serious Games Directory, discounts on passes to the annual Serious Play Conference, product entry into the conference's awards, and more.
Revealed at E3 last year, Trials Evolution's promise of simultaneous four-player motorcycle aerobatics is undoubtedly an intoxicating one. But RedLynx's latest trailer, released earlier this month, revealed that the Finnish studio has far bigger plans for its series, somehow packing a LittleBigPlanet-rivalling level editor into its XBLA game.
If you've been following our recent blog posts you'll hopefully know that our tiny indie studio, Hogrocket, shipped its first game at the end of last year. During this series of mini post-mortems we have been sharing our various successes and failures as honestly as possible in the hope that other developers can profit from them. Thanks very much for reading!
Konami has confirmed that Metal Gear Online will be closed down in June.
Kotaku reports that the game, which launched alongside Metal Gear Solid 4 in 2008 and peaked at 1.3 million users, will close on June 12.
On March 21, the game's online store will close, and the following month players will no longer be able to make new characters. All expansion packs will, however, be free until Konami shuts the servers down for good.
Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi admits he would like to develop a Dead Or Alive crossover title similar to Street Fighter X Tekken.
Capcom's upcoming game combines two of the most revered fighting game series of all time, something that would have been unthinkable a few years ago when fighting games were unpopular and Capcom and Namco were competitors, rather than collaborators.
Angry Birds, Finnish developer Rovio's mobile smash, is finally available on Facebook, almost a year after it was first announced.
This is far from a straight port of the mobile version, with Rovio adding a host of social features to better fit its host platform. Players can compete on leaderboards, and send friends "mystery gifts."
Black and white puzzle-platformer Closure won the $100,000 grand prize at the DICE Summit's Indie Game Challenge last week.
The game, which tasks players with manipulating light and shadow to effectively change the shape of the gameworld - only lit objects physically exist - was made by three-man San Diego team Eyebrow Interactive.
Nintendo has released the first paid downloadable content for its 3DS handheld.
Andriasang reports that DLC for Nintendo-published 3DS photo app Tobidasu Print Club Kiradeco Revolution is now available, with three sets of decorations available for ¥100 (81p) each.