Which came first: the pacy and inventive collectable card game, or the thick coating of brand extension that’s been enthusiastically smeared on top? While Assassin’s Creed has undoubtedly raised the App Store profile of Recollection by several orders of magnitude, it’s also lumbered it with obscure jargon, unnecessary narrative, and a nasty, cluttered interface built of shifting layers of Animus grey.
Which came first: the pacy and inventive collectable card game, or the thick coating of brand extension that’s been enthusiastically smeared on top? While Assassin’s Creed has undoubtedly raised the App Store profile of Recollection by several orders of magnitude, it’s also lumbered it with obscure jargon, unnecessary narrative, and a nasty, cluttered interface built of shifting layers of Animus grey.
Anarchy Reigns has been delayed, and will now be released in Europe on July 6, publisher Sega has confirmed.
Platinum Games' brawler, the studio's first foray into online gaming, was originally to be released this Autumn, but in May the studio pushed it back to "early 2012."
NintendoTV, Future Publishing's video show that has run for more than 60 episodes on Wii, is now available on the 3DS eShop.
Released monthly, NintendoTV features exclusive gameplay footage and peeks behind the scenes, all in full 3D, and the first episode contains footage from the two games of the month, Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land.
Finnish middleware developer Umbra Software has released Umbra 3.1, the latest version of its rendering optimisation solution.
Finnish middleware developer Umbra Software has released Umbra 3.1, the latest version of its rendering optimisation solution.
Rockstar's classic open-world game Grand Theft Auto III is now available on iOS and Android devices.
The anniversary edition of the game celebrates ten years since it was originally released on PS2 in 2001, and costs £2.99 ($4.99).
Rockstar promises optimised controls for touch-screen play, and has included two thoughtful - and much needed - additions: mission retry and autosave mode.
Sometimes our reviewers get it wrong – the not-particularly-enthusiastic 8/10 handed out to Grand Theft Auto III back in 2001 a jarring case in point. Still, it’s not like the game needed permission to sell over 15m copies – or to go on to have such a profound influence on gaming as a whole.
Game designers tend to aim to deliver the perfect experience for players. But you might be surprised to learn that psychologist Don Norman suggests that providing perfect experiences is not what we should be aiming for.
Apple's profound effect on the gaming landscape takes centre stage in issue 236 of Edge, arriving in UK newsagents December 20, as we examine how the Cupertino company established its dominance in portable games and consider what lies ahead.
It is, of course, also time to look back over a remarkable twelve months for games and honour the releases, studios and curiosities that defined the year in our Edge Awards 2011.
Will Townsend, producer of Activision's turntablism game DJ Hero, has died in a car crash.
Gamasutra reports that Townsend, 33, died on Monday night in Los Angeles. He began his career in the game industry ten years ago as a tester for EA, working up through the ranks to assistant producer before moving to Activision. After overseeing development of several Guitar Hero games for Wii and DS he was appointed producer of the first DJ Hero game. In January he moved to Nexon America, publisher of online game MapleStory.
UK videogame retailers are slashing prices of software due to poor sales of new releases.
According to MCV, UK retailers have sold 8.77 million games since the launch of Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on November 8 - 1.4 million fewer than were sold during the same period last year.
Nintendo Of Japan is offering a fix for the game-breaking bug found in Wii RPG The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
Remedy has announced that Alan Wake will finally see a PC release in 2012, seven years after the game was first announced for the platform.
PC-specific features, a publisher and distribution channels weren’t revealed, although the game was reportedly discovered in the Steam registry earlier this week.
Japanese 3DS sales rocketed last week on the back of the release of platform exclusive Monster Hunter 3G, which reportedly shifted over half a million copies in just two days.
While Enterbrain pegged weekly 3DS sales at 378,114 - the highest weekly total since the system’s February launch – Media Create reported sales of 350,321 units, up from 205,962 the previous week and more than double all other console hardware sales combined.
Electronic Arts has announced Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances, a free-to-play game for PC and mobiles that the publisher says is "the first truly portable MMOG."
Developed by Phenomic, the EA-owned German developer whose most recent release was 2010 RTS Lords Of Ultima, Tiberium Alliances will enter beta tomorrow, December 15. Those interested can sign up at the source link below.
Casual gaming king PopCap has released Bejeweled for Google's Chrome browser, with Plants Vs Zombies and Peggle to be available on Android Market later this week.
Aion, the graphically striking fantasy MMOG from Korean developer NCsoft powered by Crytek's CryEngine, will "raise the bar" for free-to-play gaming when it switches to the increasingly popular model in Europe in February.
Aion, the graphically striking fantasy MMOG from Korean developer NCsoft powered by Crytek's CryEngine, will "raise the bar" for free-to-play gaming when it switches to the increasingly popular model in Europe in February.
Square Enix has taken its free community site, Square Enix Members, offline after its security was breached by hackers.
The publisher is now working to establish the scope of the attack on the Members site, which is only available in North America and Japan. It stresses that there is no risk of credit card data being compromised because none was stored on the server that was attacked.
Our February issue, which is on sale January 17, will include an in-depth Post Script interview with creative director and co-founder of Chair Entertainment, Donald Mustard, on the challenges of developing for mobile devices and the inspiration behind the game's distinctive look.
Have you read Fat, Ugly or Slutty? If not, it's an education. Not a revelatory one, perhaps, but it's nonetheless a pretty shocking lesson on the behaviour male gamers exhibit towards women online.
But that's the way the internet is, right? Men act like turds because there's little threat of personal retribution. There's not much anyone can do, is there? It's just the way things are.
Limbo was 2011's best-selling self-published indie game on the US PlayStation Store, SCEA has announced.
Playdead's monochrome adventure tops the list posted on the PlayStation Blog, ahead of The Behemoth's side-scrolling brawler Castle Crashers.
SCEA also reveals that Pixeljunk Shooter 2 was the best-selling game published by Sony itself, with Hoard topping the list of games that Sony part-funded through its Pub Fund.
Japanese early adopters of 3DS get ten free Game Boy Advance games as part of the Ambassador Programme this Friday, December 16.
The scheme is Nintendo's compensation to those who supported the system before the global price cut in August, and the release of the GBA games follows ten free NES titles, released in September.
Super Meat Boy and Shank are among the games on offer in the Humble Indie Bundle 4, which launched yesterday.
The latest pay-what-you-want promotion - the fourth in the last three months - also includes Jamestown, Bit.Trip Runner, and NightSky HD. Those paying more than the average - currently $5.34 - also get Gratuitous Space Battles and Cave Story+. As always, the games are DRM-free and run on Mac, Windows and Linux.