Earlier this month Craneballs released their latest iOS game Splash Cars [Free], a wonderful little game about painting color onto a black and white world by driving around and blasting paint out of the back of your vehicle. It was fun just to drive around and paint the world, bu … | Continue reading
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved now supports Xbox One via backwards compatibility.Available for £3.39, the Xbox 360 launch title is oft credited as the game that kicked off the Xbox Live Arcade revolution. Originally conceived as a mini-game in Bizarre Creations' Project Gotham Raci … | Continue reading
In November of last year, Pixeljam released a wonderful little game called Last Horizon [$2.99]. In it you played an astronaut who needed to flee your dying world in a hurry, so you set out on a solo journey through space attempting to harvest resources and not get killed on your … | Continue reading
After months of waiting, TheWrap reports and The Hollywood Reports confirms Marvel has found the star for its next Netflix series, Iron Fist. Game of Thrones' own Finn Jones is set to play Danny Rand in the title role. Marvel and Netflix have yet to comment.Finn is best known for … | Continue reading
Niantic, the former Google division that is working on a Pokémon Go location-based mobile game, has raised $5 million in an expanded seed funding round. The new investors include Alsop Louie, former Havas boss David Jones (and his new venture You and Mr Jones), Fuji Television, L … | Continue reading
Asdivine Menace [Free / $4.99] represents something of a benchmark for prolific JRPG publisher Kemco. While it's not the first time they've released a sequel, or even the first time characters have returned from a previous game, this is the first time they've put out an RPG where … | Continue reading
Microsoft has begun using the Windows 10 lock screen to advertise content -- but while the game it chose is excellent, some people won't like the precedent this sets. | Continue reading
Few bands could probably inspire a mobile role-playing game, but Iron Maiden has always been special. Since forming in 1975, the heavy metal group has created 16 studio albums, including The Book of Souls just last year. It was the 10th best-selling metal album in 2015. In total, … | Continue reading
Far Cry Primal is an incredible idea. You take the basic structure of a Far Cry game — with its huge, unpredictable open world filled with dangerous animals, weapon-wielding enemies, and plentiful natural resources — and then you set it in prehistoric times. Those gun-toting sold … | Continue reading
In a way, cooperative board games like Matt Leacock's Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert [$6.99 (HD)] are peculiar animals because for most players, playing a competitive game means competing against other players rather than alongside them. And yet, there are fantastic moment … | Continue reading
The latest game by Australia-based Prettygreat, is, well, pretty great. Slide the Shakes [Free] is another free iPhone game which takes an incredible simple concept and executes on it flawlessly. Using a slingshot mechanic of sorts, all you do is slide shakes across a variety of … | Continue reading
If you want to crack the secrets of the universe or reverse quantum time you’re going to need a supercomputer. Why not make that supercomputer out of a bunch of Raspberry Pi boards? This Instructable shows you how but there’s a bit of a catch. Remember that Raspberry Pi boards ar … | Continue reading
Before he worked on Civilization with legendary game designer Sid Meier, Bruce Shelley was a board game designer at companies such as Avalon Hill. He designed games on paper back in the 1980s and 1990s, and it was easier to keep revising until the game was right. That’s a lot lik … | Continue reading
andai Namco Entertainment America has teamed up with Jordan Weisman’s Harebrained Schemes to bring Necropolis, a permadeath dungeon-action game, to home gaming consoles. Longtime game creator Weisman, the chief creative officer of Seattle-based Harebrained Schemes, told GamesBeat … | Continue reading
I think there's a pretty good game buried somewhere in The First Tactics [$0.99]. It's hard to be sure at times because there are so many bad choices with the presentation. If you can cut through the obvious vestiges of the game being designed as free-to-play, and somehow compreh … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: MNectar came up with unique way to get players to view ads on mobile by creating playable segments of games that could be streamed directly to users. No downloads were necessary just to try out a game. Now mNectar is announcing Spectra, a cross-platform app-streaming n … | Continue reading
Football vehicle game Rocket League will soon get the new Batmobile.That is, the new Batmobile from upcoming movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.The Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Car Pack comes out on 8th March for PC via Steam, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Rocket League … | Continue reading
Superhot is another game about shooting people in the face, but wait please don’t leave. Created by a small team on a modest budget, the shooter finds novelty in the creatively exhausted genre. Where its contemporaries like Call of Duty and Battlefield have chosen to be faster, l … | Continue reading
Former US State Senator Leland Yee has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of corruption and weapon smuggling.You may remember Yee as being a vocal opponent of video game violence - he campaigned for tighter restrictions around the sale of games and a state-backed r … | Continue reading
Halo 5 Grifball is up and running, and it's a lot of fun. But the Halo community has already flagged a few issues, one of which has to do with betrayal.Grifball is a game mode that involves infinite use of the Gravity Hammer, a hulking melee weapon that does massive splash damage … | Continue reading
Well, the long, strange trip of the latest Assassin's Creed mobile game finally comes to an end as Assassin's Creed Identity [$4.99] has just launched worldwide. The saga began when Identity soft-launched in select countries way back in September of 2014. The game was built aroun … | Continue reading
2016 has decided that it's just not going to slow down and it continues to blast me with dozens of awesome new games week in and week out, ensuring that my head just continues to spin. Thanks a lot 2016, ya jerk! Actually despite how frantic these weekly posts can be, I wouldn't … | Continue reading
Back in 2008 a series of logos for cancelled Star Wars games were revealed in the book Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts. Yesterday it came to light that one of these titles, Star Wars Episode VII: Shadows of the Sith, would have starred Luke Skywalker's son facing off agains … | Continue reading
Derrick Rose is out of the Chicago Bulls' lineup for Wednesday night's game against the Washington Wizards because of right hamstring tendinitis. | Continue reading
Stephen Curry's pregame routine had a special addition Wednesday, one that gave a 4-year-old boy an unforgettable thrill. | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: PlayRaven announced today that it has released its Robocide free-to-play mobile game today as part of an effort to expand the genres of the PC to mobile devices. The Helsinki-based startup has created a “micro real-time strategy” (RTS) game. In doing so, it is trying t … | Continue reading
Sony and Naughty Dog dealt with a major goof with their otherwise brilliant Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End story trailer released today. Ubisoft’s Azaïzia Aymar noticed that the video contained an image lifted from Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag video game, and he said so on … | Continue reading
Mika Mobile are legends in the world of mobile gaming. After storming the top of the in the earlier days of the App Store with virtual button-fueled action games like Zombieville USA [$0.99 / Free] and OMG Pirates! [$1.99], they created Battleheart [$2.99], a beloved and genre-de … | Continue reading
State of Play, who are most well-known for their visually stunning adventure games Lume [$1.99] and Lumino City [$4.99] which were created with intricate real-world models and painstaking stop-motion animation, have just announced their next mobile project called Ink. According t … | Continue reading
These GDC announcements almost feel like a formality at this point, but, once again, we will be at GDC in San Francisco. This year it falls on the week of March 14th, and if you're a reader, strap in for what's typically an avalanche of game previews as all sorts of developers pi … | Continue reading
It took a few decades, but Fire Emblem is no longer one of Nintendo’s third-stringers. Fire Emblem: Fates, the latest entry in Nintendo’s tactical fantasy role-playing game (read our review) has surpassed 300,000 copies sold in the United States in its first week, according to th … | Continue reading
It would be an understatement to say that we really like Rayark's Implosion - Never Lose Hope [$9.99]; we gave it 5 stars in our review and haven't stopped looking for more content to play through. A couple of months ago, we wrote that the game was getting a new character somewhe … | Continue reading
I think it's safe to say that Radiangames, aka solo developer Luke Schneider, is one of the preeminent developers on mobile. For many years now Luke has been putting out some of the very best dual-stick shooters on the platform, and whenever he's not releasing a new shooter he's … | Continue reading
There’s a new portable music player that’s looking to change the game by moving away from typical MP3 syncing and syncing with Spotify instead.Mighty, which is now on Kickstarter, uses your Spotify Premium account for iOS or Android to store up to 48 hours of your music in a comp … | Continue reading
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End’s newest story trailer is all about a dramatic choice that adventure Nathan Drake faces in the what could be the final installment in the Uncharted series. This game is probably the best thing that Sony has coming for the PlayStation 4, which has sold m … | Continue reading
In Japan on February 27, 1996, people were first called to be the very best, like no one ever was. Now, 20 years and a handful of games later, Pokemon is celebrating its big 20th birthday and lasting legacy. Live-streaming platform Twitch is playing a big part, hosting a day-long … | Continue reading
Ashes of the Singularity is an upcoming real-time strategy game for the PC where tons of things can move around on the screen simultaneously. As such, it requires a lot of 3D graphics horsepower to run fluidly. That’s why graphics chip maker Advanced Micro Devices is teaming up w … | Continue reading
All of Warren Spector’s games over the past few decades have been about “emergent gameplay,” which give players choices so that they can solve problems in their own way. Spector has been religious about this view, which contrasts to the tastes of game writers such as Amy Hennig, … | Continue reading
PlayStation Plus' Instant Game Collection - i.e. free bonus games for subscribers - will include Galak-Z and Broforce for PS4 come 1st March.The latter was voted on by the community in its Vote to Play poll recently, while Galak-Z is an arcadey action-roguelike we recommended upo … | Continue reading
Glu Mobile has seen ups and downs with its celebrity mobile games, and now it’s on the ups again thanks to its release of Kendall & Kylie, based on the lives of reality stars Kendall and Kylie Jenner. Founded in 2001, Glu toiled away for years in mobile until it scores a huge suc … | Continue reading
Just about a month ago developer Lucky Kat launched Sky Chasers [Free], a game with the heart and soul of a 16-bit platformer but the mechanics of a cave flyer. To be honest, as much as I loved the pixel art and overall charm of Sky Chasers, I can't say I loved it right off | Continue reading
Der Spaß mit Fallout 4 geht im April erst richtig los. Bethesda-Chef Todd Howard hat Game Informer erzählt, dass sein Spiel ab April offiziell Modifikationen unterstützen wird. Soweit, so erwartbar. Die gute Modbarkeit war eine de... | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Skaggs is a seasoned game designer whose hits such as FarmVille and Empires & Allies reached more than 365 million people. But after seven years at social mobile game giant Zynga, he resigned last fall to his next big thing. And today, he’s revealing that his futu … | Continue reading
Tastee Beverage Studios plans to release a sci-fi combat racing game for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. The title is one of many launch titles coming for the Rift, which Facebook’s Oculus VR is launching on March 28. The launch is one of the biggest events for VR, which … | Continue reading
Remember Darkspore? It's the 2011 video game that took the creature editing tech from Will Wright's Spore and turned it into a basic action-role-playing game. Soon, it'll be no more.Darkspore closes its doors on 1st March 2016, EA announced on the Darkspore forum. After that date … | Continue reading
Earlier this week Valve released its very own SteamVR Performance Test, and now people are fussing over Half-Life 3 and Left 4 Dead 3. Again.What's new this time? The files within the Source 2 game engine build that's a part of the performance test include references to Half-Life … | Continue reading
Dino Dini's released screenshots of Kick Off Revival, and it looks like Kick Off should.The screenshots, below, show off a pre-alpha version of the game, which is due out exclusively on PlayStation 4 and Vita in 2016. It's early days, then, but you can see Kick Off's trademark to … | Continue reading
If only customer support were more … human. RevTwo is coming out of stealth mode today with a new way to offer support for people while they are using an app. It works for when you are stuck in a game and need a hint, or when your app isn’t working right. RevTwo has created […] | Continue reading