Jordan Mechner's classic adventure repackaged for today's PCs.
Jordan Mechner's often-overlooked point-and-click masterpiece, The Last Express, has been made available for the first time since 1997 by digital distributor DotEmu. The game can be downloaded from DotEmu's site for the princely sum of €7.49, and comes in five different languages. The game is offered as a "Collector's Edition" and includes the OST, a walkthrough and a making-of.
Association says study's findings are "flawed" and "questionable".
The Entertainment Software Association has questioned the validity of a study due to be published in February's edition of journal, Paediatrics. Penned by Douglas Gentile, the study suggests a link between gaming habits and mental health problems among Singaporian children. Gentile has previously written essays which link gaming with addiction and even alcoholism.
Zynga's social resource game continues rapid growth.
Zynga's social resource game CityVille, which last week became Facebook's biggest-ever game, has now exceeded 100 million monthly active users. Zynga's first simultaneous international release, the game debuted with English, German, Italian, Spanish and French versions - more than half of it's current users are from outside of the US.
You can read part one of this feature, here.
Fiction is fragile, and the studio knows it. Nowhere is there greater risk of bombing your audience to sleep than in the thirdperson action genre, and nowhere tempts you to jump the shark more than putting ‘pulp’ in your pitch. Moreover, if you’re following in or around the footsteps of Indiana Jones, you probably know the worst pitfall of all: ‘nuking the fridge’.
Activision continues to dominate the combined Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden charts for the week ending January 8.
Black Ops refuses to move in a week that sees no new releases enter the chart. Brother at arms Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood also remains steadfastly at number two, but Gran Turismo 5 tumbles from three to seven as FIFA 2011, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, The Sims 3 and New Super Mario Brothers all leave it for dust.
Last year, somebody made a Flash RPG (of sorts) and put it up on the internet for people to play. Then somebody else played it, hated it, and wrote a furious review of the game. After that, somebody else read the review, loved it, and turned it into an Orff-powered spoken word performance of Shakespearian intensity. Then somebody else heard that, and turned the voice track into an animated Flash movie.
Publisher claims no link between own iOS release MaxPlosion and Twisted Pixel's game.
Minister for culture says not to expect implementation until at least July.
The implementation of the UK's new PEGI games rating system, which was scheduled to be in place by April 1 2011, has been pushed back to July at the earliest.
Ian Livingstone-backed Gourmet Ranch developer added to RockYou's portfolio.
Manchester based Facebook game developer Playdemic has been acquired by social games and applications company RockYou. Eidos life president, Ian Livingstone, is one of the chief investors in the studio, which is behind social game Gourmet Ranch.
Doodle Jump developer explains its attempt to force the removal of 'doodle' from rival games' titles.
Format: PS3
Publisher: SCE
Developer: Naughty Dog
Release: November 1
BioWare announces day-and-date retail and PSN release, improved graphics, free DLC.
The upcoming PS3 version of Mass Effect 2 will be available as a direct download from PlayStation Network as well as in physical format.
Capcom’s latest has spent the six weeks since launch on top of the pile; continues to boost PSP sales.
Capcom’s PSP title Monster Hunter 3rd Portable remains in the top spot of the Japanese software charts that it has occupied ever since its release on 1 December.
What can come out of a great novel writing club? A computer game! This project was the brain child of pupils from Garnock Academy in North Ayrshire and their English Teacher, Matthew Reid. They put together the first level of an epic adventure game/RPG using content which was originally intended for their novel. The game was created using RPG Maker VX (which is available as a 30-day free trial) and involves the hero, Ben, undertaking a quest to save the kingdom from a dragon in return for the hand of the princess in marriage. Ben has to solve riddles, explore the island to retrieve objects and talk to the inhabitants to gather information.
Founder Luke Schneider believes a second tier of pricing, with Achievements, would boost download stats.
Luke Schneider, founder of Radiangames, has suggested that allowing developers to add Achievements to their games would boost the appeal of the Xbox Live Indie Games service.
Schneider spoke to us as part of an interview about his experiences as one of the most well-known developers for the Xbox 360 indie download service, which you can read in full in our new issue, E224.
Developer reveals Hollywood legend has seen upcoming sequel in 3D; claims Crysis 2 is 3D “benchmark”.
Crytek has revealed that James Cameron saw Crysis 2 running in 3D – and was a big fan.
Cevat Yerli, president and creative director at Crytek, told us the news when we interviewed him as part of the Modern Warfare feature which looks at the next generation of the FPS, and is on the cover of our new issue, E224.
Blazblue director says industry should dismiss notion of east-west divide and just make games they want to make.
BlazBlue director Takeshi Yamanaka has dismissed the notion of distinct western and Japanese audiences, saying instead: “I only see gamers.”
Digital copy of the print edition can be viewed on PC, Mac and iOS devices.
If your shelves are buckling under the weight of all those Edge back issues, you may be interested to know that you can now choose to read the print edition of the magazine digitally on PC, Mac and the iOS family through Zinio.
Zinio is a digital subscription service that allows users to shop for, search inside, read, share and save digital content from a wide range of magazines and books. The company offers a free trial-subscription to all new sign-ups.
We look at four of the biggest firstperson shooters arriving this year in our latest issue, out January 18.
Competition tasks developers with making a full PC game in 48 hours; overall winner’s title won’t fit here.
The results of Ludum Dare 19, a PC development challenge which tasks bedroom coders with making a complete game in 48 hours, have been announced.
We examine what it means for gaming now that motion control has made it to all three home consoles.
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Reports claim Q4 release, dual sticks, HD screen; source tells us that’s a “reasonable description”.
Reports today claim that Sony’s long-rumoured PSP successor is as powerful as the PlayStation 3, with a source confirming to us this morning that the leaks are a “reasonable description” of the device’s capability.
Our indie game of 2010 passes the milestone in just eight months, while still in beta.
Much-loved indie hit Minecraft has passed one million sales despite still being in beta, according to developer Notch.
Notch – Marcus Persson in real life – made the announcement in a succinct blog post last night. The world-building PC game was given an initial alpha release in May 2009.
Internet free speech activist known for actions against Scientology and the movie industry takes aim at Sony.
Private US research university Carnegie Mellon is hosting the files hacker George “GeoHot” Hotz used to breach PlayStation 3’s security.
This game is the work of Jonathan Hay of Whitburn Academy. You play as Ryan Walker, a criminal for hire for an underground organisation, called T. Greep & Co. after its founder. The game follows this character on a series of missions, in a variety of locations around the world, over the course of 3 years, incidentally 3 levels. You have to complete objectives, for example delete information from a computer server to progress to the next level. There are also obstacles, such as enemies (gang members, security officers, etc...) and puzzles to hinder your progress, but ultimately once all of the objectives are complete you can progress to the next level or complete the game