Social developer and publisher Portalarium has announced Ultimate Collector: Garage Sale, a self-explanatory Facebook game designed by Ultima creator, and Portalarium co-founder, Richard Garriott.
"The collectible craze is growing leaps and bounds," Garriott said in a press release. "It's been fuelled by cable television programmes such as American Pickers, Pawn Stars and Storage Wars. By the broadest definition, this is an unregulated multibillion dollar industry in the real world.
Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney will be inducted into the Academy Of Interactive Arts And Sciences (AIAS) Hall Of Fame next year.
AIAS president Martin Rae said: "Tim's vision has changed the face of gaming with the advent of the Unreal Engine and the commitment of Epic, as a studio, to bring both consumer and industry-facing technology to new heights.
Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney will be inducted into the Academy Of Interactive Arts And Sciences (AIAS) Hall Of Fame next year.
AIAS president Martin Rae said: "Tim's vision has changed the face of gaming with the advent of the Unreal Engine and the commitment of Epic, as a studio, to bring both consumer and industry-facing technology to new heights.
Joe Danger: Special Edition will be released on Xbox Live Arcade next Wednesday, December 14, developer Hello Games has announced.
The game is an updated version of that which released on PlayStation 3 last year, with an extra ten to 15 hours of content. The bulk of that lies in The Laboratory, a set of developer missions, but the studio has also tweaked aspects of the PS3 release with which it wasn't satisfied.
Croteam, the Croation developer of Serious Sam 3: BFE, has a novel take on PC DRM: a super-fast, immortal pink scorpion.
Dark Side Of Gaming reports that the outsized arachnid appears only in pirated copies of the game, and relentlessly attacks players right from the game's opening moments. It's Brian Howe's Digital Rights Minotaur in real life.
Croteam, the Croation developer of Serious Sam 3: BFE, has a novel take on PC DRM: a super-fast, immortal pink scorpion.
Dark Side Of Gaming reports that the outsized arachnid appears only in pirated copies of the game, and relentlessly attacks players right from the game's opening moments. It's Brian Howe's Digital Rights Minotaur in real life.
Every videogame project has a spider. Most of the time it’s a metaphorical one – the hairy development challenge with eight spindly limbs that must all work in tandem. Or the game-breaking bug that keeps slinking beyond reach just as the programmer closes in to squash it dead. But games have hatched a brood of literal spiders over the years as well.
Every videogame project has a spider. Most of the time it’s a metaphorical one – the hairy development challenge with eight spindly limbs that must all work in tandem. Or the game-breaking bug that keeps slinking beyond reach just as the programmer closes in to squash it dead. But games have hatched a brood of literal spiders over the years as well.
A French court has awarded Namco Bandai publishing rights to the Xbox 360 version of CD Projekt's PC RPG The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings.
A game of bluff and counter-bluff, of second- and third-guessing your opponent, Diamond Trust Of London is a surprising release from Jason Rohrer. It’s a full retail release, for a start (if an unlikely one), from a man who usually sends titles straight into the public domain. More interestingly, though, is that DTOL is the gamiest game Rohrer has produced. This isn’t a content-light think-piece or mechanical experiment.
Just Add Water's HD remake of Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath will be released on PlayStation Store on December 21 and cost £9.99, the developer has announced.
Writing on the PlayStation Blog, Just Add Water CEO Stewart Gilray explains why the remake of the 2005 Xbox shooter - which was originally due for release last spring - has been such a long time coming.
Microsoft has released an official Xbox Live app for iOS devices.
The app, My Xbox Live, lets users read and send messages, manage friends lists, edit profile information and avatars, and view and compare achievements.
It's a free download from the source link below, and follows the release earlier this week of the Xbox Companion app for Windows Phone 7.
Cloud gaming service OnLive will today release apps for Android and iOS, featuring support for the new OnLive wireless controller and with 25 games adapted for touchscreen controls.
Shigeru Miyamoto, general manager of Nintendo EAD and the creator of the Mario and Zelda series, is to step down from his current role and work on smaller projects.
In an interview with Wired, the Nintendo legend revealed that he was doing so because he wanted to be at "the forefront of game development once again myself," and felt confident in the younger developers who would take his place.
Japanese 3DS hardware sales soared during the week ended December 4 as Mario Kart 7 recorded the biggest software debut yet for Nintendo’s handheld in its home country.
Mario Kart 7 sold 423,619 units in its first four days of availability, surpassing Super Mario 3D Land’s opening week sales total of 343,492 copies, previously a record high for 3DS software, Andriasang reports.
Saints Row publisher THQ has reduced its third quarter revenue outlook by a quarter following weaker than expected uDraw sales.
The company said today it now expects to report net sales approximately 25 per cent below its previously announced guidance of $510 million to $550 million.
Saints Row publisher THQ has reduced its third quarter revenue outlook by a quarter following weaker than expected uDraw sales.
The company said today it now expects to report net sales approximately 25 per cent below its previously announced guidance of $510 million to $550 million.
The Amazing Spider-Man will tie in with the release of the eponymous film series reboot next July and return the web-slinger to a free to roam New York City.
In development at the Quebec-based Spider-Man: Edge Of Time and Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions developer Beenox, the game is entirely set after the events of the film. It is being written by Seamus Kevin Fahey, who has written for TV series including Battlestar Galactica and Spartacus: Gods of the Arena.
Gore Verbinski's production company, Blind Wink, has penned a deal with Microsoft to develop an IP "across all Microsoft platforms" in which an XBLA Kinect game will be an "initial offering". "The deal will include, but is not limited to video games," the announcement's press release says, emphasising Blink Wink's 'transmedia' positioning, with the aim of reaching "a variety of new audiences and markets beyond the traditional media distribution methods."
Atlus Persona Team's striking hybrid puzzle-horror-adventure will be released in Europe by Deep Silver on February 10 for PS3 and 360.
Both the limited "Stray Sheep Edition", which includes protagonist Vincent's Rave T-shirt, two Stray Sheep bar-themed coasters and a poster and comes in a Stray Sheep Bar pizza delivery box, and the standard edition will be available, and will cost £54.99 and £44.99 respectively.
MCV reports that the UK retailer Game has done a deal with OnLive to sell its microconsole in its stores in time for Christmas. The hardware allows the service to be displayed through TVs and includes a joypad and costs £69.99 through OnLive's online store. We've asked how much it will retail for at Game.
In an interview, CEO Steve Perlman said the deal also means that Game's website will feature game demos powered by his company's service. The shop will also sell OnLive subscription cards.
Tecmo Koei Holdings has signed a deal to buy all shares of Atelier Iris and Ar Tonelico publisher and developer Gust from its current single shareholder, Keiken Holdings, with the aim of making Gust a wholly owned subsidiary. The deal for the 495 shares cost ¥22 million (£181,000) and will be complete later this month.
Gust already works with Tecmo Koei subsidary Koei Tecmo Net, which distributes its games in Japan. In its announcement of the deal, Tecmo Koei said that it intends to develop Gust's IP further to capitalise on fan interest in it.
PopCap has 'retired' its existing Bejeweled 2 + Blitz release for iPhone and iPod Touch in order to relaunch the game it says is the second highest selling mobile game ever, after Tetris.
Following last week's news that Team Ico lead Fumito Ueda has resigned from full-time employment at Sony, it has emerged that The Last Guardian executive producer Yoshifusa Hayama has also left Sony. He has joined east London based social game startup Bossa Studios as creative director.
Gaming industry charity GamesAid has announced LittleBigBunch, a pay-what-you-want collection of five indie PC games.