Digital magazine provider Zinio is running a promotion offering 20 per cent off a selection of Future Publishing magazines, including Edge. A Zinio subscription allows you to read our magazine on you iPad, iPhone and on your computer.
Despite the faddy title, 1000 Heroz wants to be a keeper: it offers no less than three years of play, featuring a new level every day alongside daily and custom leaderboards, all from the design talent of the studio behind Trials HD. What could go wrong?
This is a precision platformer, built around learning how to slide, hop and leap each day's course in order to shave fractions of seconds off your time. All past levels are available to play if you've missed them, though global leaderboards are frozen after a single day's play.
Capcom's record with its major franchises on iPhone is spotty: Street Fighter IV makes a remarkably good miniature, while Resident Evil 4 just looks a lot smaller. Monster Hunter makes the transition in style, its core elements streamlined and focused – almost to a fault.
Capcom's record with its major franchises on iPhone is spotty: Street Fighter IV makes a remarkably good miniature, while Resident Evil 4 just looks a lot smaller. Monster Hunter makes the transition in style, its core elements streamlined and focused – almost to a fault.
CCP, the developer behind MMOG Eve Online, has invited the members of the game's Council of Stellar Management to convene in Iceland for an extraordinary meeting, between June 30 and July 1 in response to a threatened mass exodus from the game's servers.
CCP, the developer behind MMOG Eve Online, has invited the members of the game's Council of Stellar Management to convene in Iceland for an extraordinary meeting, between June 30 and July 1, in response to a threatened mass exodus from the game's servers.
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UTV Ignition is dropping development to focus on partner-publishing. Speaking to Siliconera, director of business development Shane Bettenhausen revealed that the company's London studio - which was working on Project Kane, formerly known as War Devil - will cease to develop games.
Anonymous sources at Ignition revealed that the company has laid off its London-based console team. The sources claim that the project has now been cancelled.
Sony CEO Howard Stringer today told 8,360 shareholders at Sony's annual shareholders meeting in Tokyo that the hacking attacks against PSN were a result of the company defending its IP. "We believe that we first became the subject of attack because we tried to protect our IP, our content, in this case videogames," he said.
The Entertainment Software Ratings Board and Entertainment Merchants Association have each issued statements voicing their approval of yesterday's US Supreme Court ruling against the California violent games law.
Yesterday's ruling threw out Leland Yee's bill, which looked to ban the sale of violent videogames in the state, and instead asserted confidence in the ESA self-regulated ratings system.
In a landmark case for the videogame industry, the United States Supreme Court has ruled against California's video game violence law in the Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, declaring it unconstitutional.
The decision of the nine Justices was announced today, the law ruled invalid with a vote of 7-2. The court's full decision can be read here.
Former Team Bondi employees who worked on LA Noire have revealed the game's difficult seven-year development in a series of interviews with IGN.
The site interviewed 11 former employees - all of whom wished to remain anonymous - and studio head Brendan McNamara. Common themes that come up include complaints of constant crunch periods, a lack of overtime pay, a confused hierarchy within the team and criticisms of McNamara's leadership.
Samaritan. Not the most obvious name for a tech demo inspired by Blade Runner. But then you see who it’s by. Epic Games, whose Unreal Engine 3 sold many of today’s leading developers a ticket into this hardware generation. Whose Unreal Tournament games, furthermore, with their modding tools and contests, sold gamers tickets to development in general. Whose Unreal Development Kit, which incorporates the tech behind its latest triple-A games, is now handing out tickets for free.
505 Games' perennial chart botherer Zumba Fitness has kept the number one spot it reclaimed from Duke Nukem Forever last week. The muscle-bound misogynist has dropped down to number eight, replaced by Warner Bros. Interactive's horror FPS F.E.A.R. 3, which debuts, fittingly, at number three.
According to market research company NPD, digital gamers are now spending nearly as much time as 'core' gamers playing and buy more games on average.
While core gamers remain out ahead when it comes to play time, spending on average 18 hours a week gaming, digital gamers spend just two hours less a week at 16.
Meanwhile, core gamers acquired 5.4 games on average over the previous three months while digital gamers were ahead with 5.9. When considering these figures, it should be remembered that digital games often cost less than retail titles.
Heading the Brighton-based conference's design track, David Braben will discuss the challenges Frontier's team has faced in creating an open-world Kinect game that takes place in a faithful recreation of Disney's themepark.
"You don’t get a better opportunity than this to work with a wide range of rich characters and stories that are genuinely loved by huge numbers of people the world over. It has been a great experience which I’m looking forward to discussing in Brighton in July," Braben says.