Electronic Arts has revealed that Criterion's top-down XBLA and PSN game Burnout Crash will be coming to iPad, iPad 2 and iPhone 4 later this year.
The iOS version will include three game modes, 18 traffic junctions across six locations, and online head-to-head challenges.
A little ambition can go a long way. The bugs and rough edges that chafe throughout The Fall Of Gods' ten-hour runtime are far from unique on a service hardly renowned for prioritising polish, though they're no less disappointing when they arrive. But they're minor flaws in a charmingly retrograde adventure that leans on the likes of Secret Of Mana and early Zelda for inspiration – and doesn't suffer too badly from the comparison.
Rockstar has announced that it is to release Grand Theft Auto III for iOS and Android on October 22.
The release is to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the open-world crime game. Interestingly, only the A5 processor-powered iPad 2 and iPhone 4S will be able to run it, dividing the iOS range remarkably soon after the launch of the latest hardware generation.
Android users have a wider choice of compatible handsets and tablets, including HTC Evo 2, Samsung Galaxy S2 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 - you can see the full list by following the source link.
Google has launched PlayN, a tool that compiles a single body of Java source code into versions which run in HTML5, Java, Android and Flash.
Described on Google's developer site as an "open-source cross-platform abstraction layer", PlayN uses the existing GWT compiler (Google Web Toolkit) to eliminate any platform-specific calls from your code and replaces them with "tiny, targeted entry point classes that hook into each platform-specific implementation."
Dennis Ritchie, the creator of programming language C, has reportedly died. According to a Google+ post by Google engineer and former colleague, Rob Pike, the 70-year-old died at home over the weekend following a long illness.
Ritchie was born September 1941 in Bronxville New York, and graduated from Harvard with degrees in mathematics and physics before Bell Labs employed him in 1968. In 1971, Ritchie worked with engineer Ken Thompson to develop Unix. Two years later, he created C.
Mojang's world-building game Minecraft and Trion Worlds' MMORPG Rift each won two awards at the second annual GDC Online Game Developers Online Choice Awards in Austin, Texas.
Minecraft scooped Best Live Game and Best Community Relations, while Rift left with Best Online Technology and was named the Best New Online Game.
Since 2009's Assassin's Creed II, the series has been annual, releasing a new chapter in Ezio's story each November. For a game that models entire cities, it would seem a punishing schedule, but Assassin's Creed Revelations mission design director Falco Poiker, who previously worked on Brotherhood, having previously worked on the Ubisoft's Splinter Cell series, begs to differ. We talked to him about the challenges and benefits of a year dev cycle, and what it takes to build a team up to 180 people in the space of a few months.
Revered science fiction author Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash) discussed the relationship between game and narrative fiction world-building at GDC Online this week.
"I think a lot of the same world-building skills and world-building mentality [of book writing] are going to transfer extremely well into the game world, and it's going to be a natural blend."
The Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle has raised more than $1.1 million after 231,799 copies were sold.
The pay-what-you-want charity bundle included Mode7's multiplayer masterpiece Frozen Synapse, Zachtronics Industries' excellent puzzler SpaceChem and the haunting indie game Trauma (which you can try for free).
Nintendo's reconfigured Wii will be released in the UK on November 4 in a new Wii Family Edition hardware bundle. The bundle includes Wii Sports, Wii Party and a Wii Remote and Nunchuk set.
The new Wii was announced back in August and retains it current form factor, but drops backwards compatibility with GameCube games and controllers.
EA has announced the next iOS title to come from Bejeweled and Peggle developer PopCap. Due on iPhone and iPad this winter, Popcorn Dragon is - according to Wired - all about toasting and hoovering up popcorn with, what else, a dragon controlled by your finger. Expect it to be colourful and addictive.
SCEA senior staff developer support engineer Chris Norden has confirmed that all PlayStation Vita retail games will be available as downloads through PSN on launch day. Speaking at GDC Online, Norden also delivered the welcome news that, unlike on PS3, Vita games can be submitted to Sony as a single file format for both the packaged and download version.
SCEA senior staff developer support engineer Chris Norden has confirmed that all PlayStation Vita retail games will be available as downloads through PSN on launch day. Speaking at GDC Online, Norden also delivered the welcome news that, unlike on PS3, Vita games can be submitted to Sony as a single file format for both the packaged and download version.
Winning Eleven 2012 debuted at number one on the Japanese software chart for the week ended October 9.
The latest entry in Konami’s long-running football franchise sold 272,036 copies to hold off competition from PSP dating sim AKB1/48: If I Loved An Idol In Guam, which entered at number two with 236,587 sales.
The only other new entries to make the top ten were Western developed titles. The PS3 versions of F1 2011 and Rage sold 26,574 and 11,320 copies to debut in third and eighth place respectively.
Flash has one of the most remarkable stories in recent game technology. As we've discussed over the last couple of days, it's survived acquisition, competition and the rise of mobile phones to deliver a thriving webgame community that's enjoying considerable financial reward. At the heart of this business is Flash Game License, a company which brokers a huge number of deals between indie developers and portals, small and large.
In a GDC Online talk this week, Blizzard SVP of creative development Chris Metzen discussed the publisher/developer's approach to the art of fiction.
Metzen humbly conceded that Blizzard "isn't necessarily known as the best story shop in the business," but that: "To us [writing] is not about the best [story] hooks in the world, or the most clever hooks. It's not about being the most unique in the world, or the best-written dialog in the world. To us it's about heart, it's about the engagement."
If you have an iPhone or iPad, it's now even easier to get hold of Edge. We've just launched the Edge app, which allows you to read and subscribe to our magazine through Apple's new Newsstand service, which has launched today.
You can buy single issues as well as take out three, six and twelve-month subscriptions, and browse our pages as they appear in print.
You won't need the new iOS 5 update to access us - you can find our free app in the App Store.
Slightly Mad Studios, the team responsible for Need For Speed Shift and its sequel, has announced its latest project, C.A.R.S.
Speaking at a tech event in Washington, Valve president Gabe Newell suggested the next revolution in home consoles might come from Apple.
"I suspect Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear," he told the attending audience.
Speaking at a tech event in Washington, Valve president Gabe Newell suggested the next revolution in home consoles might come from Apple.
"I suspect Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear," he told the attending audience.
Japan-based developer Level-5's 3DS collection Guild 01 will see Grasshopper Manufacture's Suda 51, Seaman creator Yoot Saito and Vagrant Story designer Yasumi Matsuno each contribute to a title in the package.
Havok, the Dublin middleware company best known for its real-time physics solutions, has rolled out the first major update for its newly acquired game engine Havok Vision Engine. The move further underlines Havok's expansion into the 3D engine market.
Namco’s push towards more mainstream appeal for its established brands, evident in the forthcoming Ridge Racer Unbounded, kicks off with the latest Ace Combat, the first multiplatform release for the long-standing series. The action is back in the real world as opposed to the franchise’s more frequent fictional setting, and the emphasis is strictly on making things go boom.
Assassin's Creed is currently one of gaming's most popular series, and it's also one of its wordiest. Aside from the dialogue and cutscenes in its main plot and side missions, its locations and characters are all embellished with pithy database entries, grounded in historical research spiced with conspiracy theory, romance and a bit of absurdist humour.
Warner Bros Interactive today both announced and released Scribblenauts Remix for iOS devices.
The game, co-developed by 5th Cell Media and Iron Galaxy Studios, combines the most popular puzzles from Scribblenauts and Super Scribblenauts which were both previously only available on DS. It's also fully iOS 5 ready, able to sync with iCloud so the game can be played across multiple iOS devices with a single purchase, while saves are automatically transferred.