Iron Brigade, known outside Europe as Trenched, will be released on Xbox Live Arcade on November 30.
The European release of Double Fine's mech tower defence game was held up due to a trademark dispute, with a Portuguese designer claiming that, under the name Trenched, the game would violate his trademark for a war-themed board game called Trench.
Lower than expected sales of new software were offset by a significant jump in digital sales at GameStop during the US retailer’s third financial quarter ended October 29, 2011.
Total sales for the three month period rose 2.5 per cent year-over-year to $1.95 billion (£1.24b), although comparable store sales were down 0.6 per cent, “primarily impacted by lower than expected sales of new software”.
The latest Call Of Duty game has entered at number one on the Nordic chart, which combines sales data from Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Global sales record-breaker Modern Warfare 3 claimed the top spot ahead of fellow new entry The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, while Battlefield 3 dropped to number three after two weeks at the chart summit.
Sega has announced that it has acquired San Francisco-based social games maker Three Rings Design. Developer of 2003's Puzzle Pirates, 2009's Spiral Knights and the forthcoming Doctor Who: Worlds In Time, Three Rings has done much to pioneer and advance social and multiplayer gaming.
Good Old Games, the digital distribution service that sells games that are at least three years old, has confirmed plans to add newer titles to its catalogue.
During an investor and press briefing in Warsaw today, managing director Guillaume Rambourg said: "Traditionally, GOG.com has looked for great classics that are three years old or older. We will continue to add classic games, of course, but we are actively working to sign newer titles now.
Id Software co-founder John Carmack has admitted that the planned release of the Doom 3 source code will be delayed amid fears of a patent violation.
Earlier this month Carmack said the source code was "packaged and tested" and would be released once it had been cleared by the developer's legal team. That was taken as a sign that its release was imminent.
Stardock has announced that it will release its back catalogue of PC games on Steam following the sale of its Impulse digital distribution service earlier this year.
Its 2009 strategy title Sins Of A Solar Empire: Trinity is now available on Valve's distribution service. In a post on the Stardock forums CEO Brad Wardell said the move was a logical consequence of the sale of Impulse to US retailer GameStop in April.
Square Enix has licensed Epic Games' Unreal Engine for multiple unannounced projects.
Taka Kawasaki, territory manager of Epic Games Japan, which handled the deal, said: "It is a pleasure to provide Square Enix with an exceptional game engine that will help them bring thrilling new experiences to legions of fans all over the world.
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has continued to break records, with Activision claiming it grossed $775 million worldwide in the first five days following its launch on November 8.
That means it has shattered five-day worldwide entertainment sales records, breaking a record set last year by Call Of Duty: Black Ops, which brought in $650 million, breaking the $550 million grossed by Modern Warfare 2 in 2009.
Desperate games call for desperate measures. Last year, executives at Electronic Arts found themselves between a rock and a hard place. They had planned a revival of the basketball simulation series NBA Live under the new brand NBA Elite. The game was to be largely innovative, and was meant to go above and beyond the average yearly sports game update. However, near the end of the game’s development cycle, the company was forced to face a sobering fact: the game wasn’t going to come together in time.
Digital distribution service Desura has launched a dedicated client for Linux which it says will "help promote and grow gaming" on the open-source operating system.
The client allows enables automatic installation and patching of games on Linux, and launches with over 65 games. Desura says it now offers the only game client that runs on Windows and Linux.
Whenever Peter Molyneux says anything, the gaming world listens. And then usually responds with "piffle", "balderdash" and "LOL". But the point is that it listens. And as Tadhg Kelly says, many developers who also have things to say - perhaps much more, dare we say it, deliverable things - look on and wonder how Molyneux gets so much attention.
The Arvon Foundation has launched a dedicated games writing course, featuring the likes of Heavenly Sword writer Rhianna Pratchett.
The five-day, residential course will be tutored by Naomi Alderman and David Varela, both of whom have worked on Mind Candy's ARG Perplex City, with Alderman also writing for The Guardian.
Dutch art dealership Cook & Becker has launched a new online gallery featuring unique and limited edition works from videogame artists including Keita Takahashi and Masaya Matsuura.
Dutch art dealership Cook & Becker has launched a new online gallery featuring unique and limited edition works from videogame artists including Keita Takahashi and Masaya Matsuura.
Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono is spearheading Capcom's new company-wide approach to social games, together with Kazunori Sugiura, producer of Monster Hunter Frontier.
Speaking to Famitsu magazine, translated by 1UP, Ono said that the announcement of a new Monster Hunter for the Gree mobile network was just the first step in Capcom's effort to bring its established franchises to social and mobile platforms.
Metal Gear Solid: Rising, the hack-and-slash game announced for Xbox 360 in 2009 and later confirmed for PS3, has a new producer.
Avalanche Studios, developer of the Just Cause series, has announced Project Mamba, a big-budget title due on PC and consoles in 2014.
3DS outsold all of other platforms combined in Japan last week as PSP rhythm action game Hatsune Miku Project Diva Extend entered at number one on the software chart.
Sales of Nintendo’s portable were down by over 40,000 units to 103,962 during the week ended November 13, but the total still dwarfed those of its nearest rivals, PSP and PS3, which sold 23,472 units and 22,919 respectively.
Minecraft Pocket Edition will be released for iPhone and iPad tomorrow.
News of the App Store release comes just days before the MineCon event in Las Vegas, where the PC version of the game will be officially released. Minecraft finally went gold earlier this week.
Will Wright has revealed that his next game will be called HiveMind, which will be the first release from his new studio of the same name.
Speaking to VentureBeat, the creator of The Sims shares few details on his project, but says it will make extensive use of smartphone location data as well as information about players' everyday lives, a concept he calls "personal gaming."
Seven million copies of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim have been shipped to retailers since its launch last week, publisher Bethesda has announced.
More than half of that figure was sold in the game's first 48 hours on shelves. In a press release, game director Todd Howard said: "Without a doubt, this has been our most ambitious project ever. After over three years of development, we're finally excited to get it into everyone's hands."
Ubisoft Montreal is hard at work on 'target boxes' based on the intended specifications of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 successor, according to an Edge source. Delivery of the first iteration of genuine devkits, running custom hardware, is expected to reach studios before Christmas, and all signs point to the finalised console arriving at retail in late 2012.
Among other roles, Crytek is currently looking for talented individuals to bolster its Ryse art team. The Far Cry and Crysis developer is looking for a concept artist, animator and to make it all work, an animation programmer.
The Khronos Group has released OpenCL 1.2, the latest version of its cross-platform programming framework, which boasts new features as well as full backwards compatibility with previous versions.
Coming 18 months after version 1.1, OpenCL 1.2 offers seamless sharing of media and surfaces with DirectX 9 and 11, enhanced image support, device partitioning and more; for the full list of changes, follow the source link below.