The Walking Dead – Standard Retail and Exclusive Collector’s Edition’s Revealed

Oct 22, 2012

The world we knew is gone. The dead have risen to feed on the living. The living cannot be trusted.

Starving. Never safe. Looking for hope. What would you do?

The Walking Dead is a critically-acclaimed adventure horror game set in Robert Kirkman’s award-winning universe.  Beginning when Deputy Sheriff Rick Grimes is still in a coma, this is a new story telling the tale of Lee Everett – a man given a second chance at life in a world of the undead.

Taking an orphaned girl named Clementine under his wing, Lee must deal with true horror under the constant threat of walkers hungry for flesh… as well as other survivors, desperate enough to do anything to stay alive.

• A tailored game experience – live with the profound and lasting consequences of your choices
• Experience events, meet people and visit locations that foreshadow the story of Deputy Sheriff Rick Grimes
• The world of the comic books brought to life with visuals inspired by The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard

The Walking Dead – Collector’s Edition
(Xbox 360) (GameStop Exclusive)
The Walking Dead – Collector’s Edition
(Playstation 3) (GameStop Exclusive)

The Walking Dead – Collector’s Edition (GameStop Exclusive)

• Extremely Limited for Pre-Order ONLY, MSRP $69.99 USD
• The Walking Dead Compendium One featuring exclusive Charlie Adlard cover art. Over 1,000 pages collecting the first 48 issues of Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series. (Standard edition of the first compendium without special edition artwork valued at an MSRP of $59.99 USD. This Collector’s Edition of the Compendium will not be sold separately.)
• Collector’s Edition box with Charlie Adlard artwork
• Game disc containing the entire first season including Episodes 1 through 5

Additional details on The Walking Dead Compendium One

Featuring cover art exclusive to the Collector’s Edition, this is the first 48 issues of the fan-favorite, New York Times Best Selling series collected into one massive paperback collection!Over one thousand pages chronicle the beginning of Robert Kirkman’s Eisner Award-winning continuing story of survival horror- from Rick Grimes waking up alone in hospital, to him and his family seeking solace on Hershel’s farm, and the controversial introduction of Woodbury despot: The Governor.

In its original digtial release on console, PC and Mac, The Walking Dead was met with acclaim from arts and entertainment critics worldwide.

Dark Vale Games’ Forge is Selected for Distribution via Steam thanks to Greenlight

Oct 19, 2012

Dark Vale Games, an independent video game developer based in Southern California, is proud to confirm that FORGE, the upcoming PC multiplayer title that plays like an action-shooter — but featuring MMO-style abilities — will be available worldwide through Steam after being selected through Steam Greenlight.  FORGE beat out thousands of other game submissions in the Greenlight program, earning the votes of the massive Steam user community to finish among the Top Ten of the most recently approved titles.  FORGE will be available for pre-order on Steam soon.

Steam Greenlight is a new platform feature that enlists the community’s help in selecting some of the next games to be released on Steam. Launched on August 30, Greenlight allows developers and publishers to post information and media about their game in an effort to convince Community members that their game should be released on Steam.

“Being selected for Steam Greenlight – and especially knowing we were in the Top Ten amongst thousands of competing titles – is further validation of the vision our dedicated team at Dark Vale Games had for creating a truly unique and competitive PC multiplayer game,”  said Tim Alvis, COO/CTO of Dark Vale Games.  “As a small, independent developer it’s a great advantage to have the worldwide influence of a publishing system like Steam and our game is a perfect fit for the experienced and fervent PC gaming community that resides there.  We can’t wait to get to launch!”

FORGE is currently in Closed Beta with formal release due later this Fall.  More than 20,000 players are currently enjoying the Unreal Engine 3.0-powered arenas before the game even goes final.  The closed Beta is open only to those who have pre-ordered the title and will run from now through November.  Players who pre-order the game through Steam when the product page goes live will also gain immediate access to the closed Beta.  Additionally, players who simply register with the game’s Web site at www.playforgewar.com will receive a 14-day free trial period within the Beta.

Space Tanks charges onto iOS

Oct 19, 2012

Today, Nexon announced the launch of its Real Time Strategy title, Space Tanks, on iPhone and iPad through the iTunes App Store. Space Tanks is the 27th mobile game Nexon has launched this year.

Space Tanks brings classic tank-battling action to iOS and offers a thrilling story, network battles of up to six people, and 16 beautiful battlefields, with full support for Apple’s Retina Display.

Space Tanks features include:

• Totally Free! Free Coins – Space Tanks is free to download and play, and even offers free game coins when players start.
• Single and Multiplayer Support – Play thrilling story missions in single player or throw down in network battles of up to 6 people. Wherever you go, you can enjoy Space Tanks!
• Stunning Graphics – Space Tanks fully supports Retina Display for crystal-clear images and vivid battles.
• Personalize your Tank – Choose from over 17 types of tanks and add over 100 enhancement and upgrade items to make a truly personal tank.
• Battle Across the Universe – Do battle on 16 battlefields, including Oasis, Frostkeep Wells, Black Hole, and the Swamp.
• Create Your Own Avatar – Tens of thousands of combinations allow players to create a uniquely personal avatar to drive their personalized tank.

Space Tanks is available now on the iTunes App Store for free at:
iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nexon-spacetanks/id523574094?ls=1&mt=8
iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nexon-spacetankshd/id523574107?ls=1&mt=8 

Sleeping Dogs Nightmare in North Point – Screenshots and Teaser Trailer

Oct 19, 2012

In life, Big Scar Wu was one of Hong Kong’s most ruthless triad gangsters. Feared as much by those who stood against him as those who stood by him in the Sun On Yee, it was decided by the Grand Dragon that he must be stopped. Looking to send a message, they had him stabbed 42 times before feeding his bleeding corpse to the grinder at the Smiley Cat cat food plant… his final resting place, in the food bowls of the city’s pet cats. It is said that if the wronged receive anything less than a proper burial, their spirit will almost certainly come back as a Hungry Ghost, damned to starve in the afterlife, feeding only on their hatred. You turn him into cat food and that’s pretty much guaranteed.

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Now, Hell has a sense of humour. When Big Scar Wu arrived in the underworld and word spread of his demise, they renamed him Smiley Cat, much to his chagrin, with the name fuelling his bitterness with every utterance and driving his thirst for revenge. Rising from Hell and vowing to exact his revenge, Smiley Cat has raised an army of Jiang Shi, vowing to destroy the Sun On Yee and to create Hong Kong’s most fearsome criminal empire.

With the city in chaos and its citizens possessed, Wei Shen now faces a challenge far more sinister than any before. To save Hong Kong, he must seek out the most powerful of Chinese magic, endowing him with a power strong enough to take on Smiley Cat’s army of Jiang Shi and face-off against the ghosts of Triads he has defeated in the past, sending the dead back to Hell once and for all.

Nightmare in North Point will be available this Halloween, Wednesday, October 31st. Available to download from the PlayStation Network, Xbox LIVE Marketplace and Steam.

Halo 4 – Launch Trailer produced by David Fincher and Tim Miller

Oct 19, 2012

With less than three weeks until the launch of “Halo 4” on Nov. 6, Microsoft and 343 Industries, in partnership with agency twofifteenmccann, today premiered “Scanned,” a cinematic, live-action trailer produced by renowned Hollywood director David Fincher (“Fight Club,” “The Social Network,” “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”) and directed by acclaimed visual effects lead Tim Miller (“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”).

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Dwarfs!? goes F2P on Steam

Oct 18, 2012

Tripwire Interactive and Power of 2 are pleased to announce that Dwarfs!? – the annoyingly addictive little game of dwarves, mining, gold and monsters – is now free to play on Steam. At $9.99, the game spent months sitting in the Top 10 on Steam’s “Indie” category after launch, having spent the first week as Number 1 and recieved praise for being “good value”. Now it is even better value – free.

The FREE version includes:

• Addictive Arcade Mode with two difficulty levels
• Challenge Mode, where you can put your overseer-abilities to the test with, well, challenges
• Tutorial mode, voiced by none other than Simon of Yogscast fame
• Leaderboards and Achievements to show everyone the size of your beard
• …and Zombies!

And for those that want to expand the game (you were wondering how it would make any money, weren’t you?), there will be a number of available expansion packs that you can buy as DLC:

• Difficulty pack: adds two more difficulty levels to the core Arcade mode, for some serious challenge, if you think you’re hard enough!
• Endless mode pack: where you can keep mining forever, and ever, and ever…
• Base defend pack: like Tower Defense, but you have a Base, not a Tower; and the tunnels aren’t laid out for you – your Dwarfs dig them
• Skirmish pack: adds 3 more modes – Rush Mode, where the Dwarf spawning knows no bounds; Dark Mode, where the whole cave is, well, dark, making exploring more exciting (and dangerous) and Sandbox Mode, where you can basically do everything you ever dreamed of (so long as you dream of dwarves)
• Summer Carnival pack: the extra mode added for the Summer event – lots of goblins to throw axes at; you don’t get to throw the dwarves – you need to use the Dwarf Cannon in Arcade Mode for that!

You can now grab the F2P version of Dwarfs!? (at a permanent 100% discount) on Steam here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/213650. All the separate add-on packs can be bought through the game itself, or you can just buy the complete game here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/35480.

Cyberpunk 2077 is CDProjekt RED’s next RPG

Oct 18, 2012

CD Projekt RED has officially announced the title of its in-development role-playing game. “Cyberpunk 2077” will be set in the world created by Mike Pondsmith, one of the fathers of the cyberpunk genre and the creator of the cult-classic pen-and-paper RPG, Cyberpunk.

“The Team has to love the material. The Team has to want to be faithful to the material. The Team has to have the skills to execute the material and see that vision through to the end. They have to be on fire with the desire to make an extraordinary game.

And that leads, at last, to why we hooked up with CD Projekt RED” – Mike Pondsmith commented, why he has chosen to work with the Polish game developer.

The cyberpunk atmosphere, well known from William Gibson’s novels, the “Blade Runner” movie and the famous pen-and-paper game, “Cyberpunk 2020”, will surround the player. The creators promise that “Cyberpunk 2077” will be true to the essence of the cyberpunk genre.  Players will be thrown into the dark future of the year 2077 and into a world where advanced technologies have become both the salvation and the curse of humanity. A multi-thread, nonlinear story designed for mature players (a CD Projekt RED trademark) will take place in the sprawling metropolis of Night City and its surroundings. Players will have a chance to visit places well known from “Cyberpunk 2020”, including a combat zone completely taken over by gangs, the legendary Afterlife joint and the nostalgic Forlorn Hope.

Freedom of action and diversity in gameplay will be delivered thanks to the sandbox nature of the game and mechanics inspired by the “Cyberpunk 2020” pen-and-paper system, fine tuned to meet the requirements of a modern RPG. Gameplay will pump adrenaline through players’ veins and be consistent with the celebrated Cyberpunk spirit – rebellion, style, edge, uncertainty.  And of course, a cyberpunk reality cannot be deprived of murderous steel – guns, rifles, implants, dozens of gadgets and other varied pieces of equipment needed to survive on the streets of Night City. The developers are focused on making the technology of 2077 credible and exciting.

How to Create Your Own Adventure with REDKit, Launches in Closed Beta

Oct 18, 2012

During their Fall Special Event, CD Projekt RED, the developer of critically acclaimed role-playing games, presented a beta version of their development kit, called REDkit. This modding toolset uses the studio’s in-house REDengine game engine, which was specially designed to create The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings  and the studio’s upcoming RPG titles.

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GOG.com brings classics to Mac and Offers a Pay What You Want for Interplay games

Oct 18, 2012

GOG.com, the digital distributor of the best games in history, just finished its CD Projekt RED & GOG.com Special Event, and they’ve announced an incredible new deal on Interplay games, many new releases, and even that they’re bringing their games to a new operating system–the Mac OS!

The incredible new deal from Interplay is a limited-time offer to Pay What You Want for Interplay Games in GOG.com’s catalog. For the first time ever, a big-name publisher who’s been in the business for decades is offering its catalog at a pay-what-you-want price point, and for the next 14 days, gamers worldwide will have a chance to buy Interplay games available on GOG.com for as much (or as little) as they want to pay.

For any price they feel is fair, users will receive 8 games, including greats such as Conquest of the New World, Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business, or M.A.X. and M.A.X. 2. Paying more than the average community purchase will net a total of 20 games, with fantastic titles such as Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Freespace + Expansion, or Descent 3 and its expansion included. Finally, the top supporters who pay $34.99 or more receive the whole Interplay catalog available on GOG.com–worth more than $190–including the three Fallout games, MDK 1 & 2, Sacrifice, Descent, Freespace 2, and more. Users who already own some of the games in the bundle will receive a giftable code for titles they have. The holiday season isn’t that far away, so anyone who wants a gift package of unmatchable value for the gamer they love should definitely think about picking up a gift code for the whole bundle.
Interplay PWYW link: http://www.gog.com/interplay

GOG.com has also talked about some big new releases coming to the service soon, and even went so far as to invite the head of Daedalic Entertainment, Carsten Fichtelmann, on stage to talk about one of the newest titles coming to GOG.com today. Chaos on Deponia is the newest graphical adventure from Daedalic Entertainment, and is a sequel to international best-seller Deponia. The game will present the same cast of bizarre characters and wacky humor, beautiful hand-drawn high resolution 2D graphics, and hours of challenging top-notch point-and-clicking as the original, but continue on the story that helped make Deponia such a success. Chaos on Deponia is available for pre-order right now on GOG.com for 30% off, or in a special bundle with Deponia for 40% off for both. That’s only $23.99 for both Deponia and and Chaos on Deponia together only until November 6 at 10:59 AM GMT.
Chaos on Deponia: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/deponia_2_chaos_on_deponia

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a successor to The Great Giana Sisters, a platformer originally released in 1987 for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, MSX2, and Commodore 64. The game follows Giana, now a teen, back in her dream world, equipped with an ability to transform to Punk Giana, and morph the whole world around her accordingly. Beautiful levels, flipping between worlds and characters, epic boss fights, and a superb musical score by the original game’s composer Chris Hülsbeck and Machinae Supremacy–all this, and more, packed into one challenging platformer. Giana Sisters is available for pre-order now on GOG.com, with a 25% discount for the next 5 days.
Giana Sisters link: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/giana_sisters_twisted_dreams/

Puddle is a physics-based liquid tilt-the-screen puzzler which plays much more simply than the description might indicate. In the game, the player must guide a puddle of fluid to its target destination by tilting and rotating the entire environment and letting gravity do the work instead of directly moving the puddle. The game offers fascinating friction-, momentum-, environment-, and fluid-based puzzles and is now available on GOG.com for 20% off, that is only $7.99 until October 25 at 10:59 AM GMT.
Puddle link: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/puddle

GOG.com has also announced, in its trademark slightly quirky fashion, that it has started selling games for Mac. Watch the commercial:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVDh8GImlf8

Users of Apple computers will receive the same simple service, ultra-fast downloads, great customer support, and, most importantly, best games in history. A total of 50 games is available right now, more than half of which are exclusively available from GOG.com. 8 games, such as Beneath a Steel Sky, Tyrian 2000, Ultima 4, and Warsow, are available for free, simply for signing up. Additionally, GOG.com is taking six of the best titles that they’re offering on both PC & Mac and putting them on sale in a Special Promo this weekend where gamers can pick up SimCity 2000, Little Big Adventure, Crusader: No Remorse, Postal: Classic and Uncut, Theme Hospital, and The Witcher Enhanced Edition, all available half off the full price, and all of the Mac games that GOG.com curently sells contain both the PC & Mac version of the game in one purchase.
Mac & PC Promo: http://www.gog.com/en/promo/mac_games_launch_promo_18_10_12/

[box_light]The CD Projekt RED & GOG.com Special Event was packed with news for both parties, with the developer revealing that The Witcher 2 is now available on Mac–on GOG.com as well as other digital distributors–and teased some new information about the upcoming science fiction RPG that they’re working on in the Cyberpunk universe.[/box_light]

Marvel Avengers Battle For Earth – Full Character Roster Revealed

Oct 18, 2012

Today, Ubisoft revealed the full lineup of Super Heroes and Super Villains for Marvel Avengers Battle for Earth and key art created by Marvel Comics artist Stefano Caselli.

Fans will get to play as 20 different Marvel characters including:

1. Black Widow
2. Captain America
3. Doctor Doom
4. Dr. Strange
5. Hawkeye
6. Human Torch
7. Iceman
8. Iron Man
9. Loki
10. Magneto
11. Phoenix
12. Queen Veranke
13. Scarlet Witch
14. Spider Man
15. Storm
16. Super Skrull
17. The Hulk
18. Thor
19. Venom
20. Wolverine

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Edge of Space has Laser Sharks, Brain Turtles, Intergalactic Polar Bears and More – Pre-Order Now

Oct 18, 2012

Felix Baumgartner isn’t the only person that can head into space – now you can too! Handyman Studios and Reverb Publishing announced today that their stellar upcoming 2D sandbox Edge of Space is now available for pre-order from Rain Digital Games (http://www.raindg.com/title/edge-space) and will be coming soon to other digital distribution platforms. For just $9.99, gamers everywhere can download the early beta (but FULL) version of the game and start exploring, crafting items and interacting with other early adopters. Pre-order now at this early price, as the cost will increase upon launch!

Edge of Space is an open-world, dynamically-generated sandbox game set in an area of deep space where humans have never wanted, or were ever meant to, travel. The entire game was built from the ground-up with multiplayer in mind, and the reactive environments ensure that all activities (crafting, building, setting traps, healing, etc.) are fast-paced and intense. Other features of Edge of Space include:

• Vaulted server-stored characters
• Mega-deep exploration elements and ultra-rare items to seek out to help you dominate your world
• A wide choice of vehicles, armors, weapons and variations of each to suit your method of play
• Hordes of enemies and epic bosses: Enemies that have unique attack patterns and different vulnerabilities to exploit. One weapon will not rule them all!
• Integrated IRC chat client grants gamers complete freedom to talk with friends, whether or not they’re currently in the game
• Deep crafting system unique to the genre
• Reactive environment: As you do things, the world will change and respond to those actions
• Co-op weapons: When used in tandem or combo-ing with your friends create unique effects
• Fully-modifiable world
• Do everything with your friends
• Pets
• More to come…

Max Payne 3: Hostage Negotiation Pack DLC Coming October 30 to all platforms

Oct 17, 2012

Today Rockstar Games is pleased to confirm that the Hostage Negotiation Pack, the next piece of Max Payne 3 Multiplayer DLC, will be available across all platforms on Tuesday, October 30th.

Scribblenauts Unlimited to include Iconic Nintendo Characters from the Mario and Legend of Zelda Franchises

Oct 17, 2012

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announces that its highly anticipated Scribblenauts Unlimited game will feature even more than ever before, with Nintendo themed bonus content.  Players can summon dozens of their favorite characters and items from the Mario and Legend of Zelda franchises exclusively in the Wii U version of the game. 

Players will delight in producing fantastical and sometimes hilarious interactions between the Mario and Legend of Zelda characters and objects, alongside everyone’s favorite word-wielding Scribblenauts adventurer, Maxwell. Discovered Nintendo characters and objects will behave in the fun and fantastical ways they do in their respective game worlds. 

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Scribblenauts Unlimited expands upon the best–selling, award–winning video game franchise that challenges players to imagine anything and bring it to life in the game. This latest Scribblenauts installment will feature a huge side–scrolling open world with new, high–definition hand–drawn scenery and objects where players can help Maxwell solve robust puzzles and challenges by creating any object they can imagine.

Created and developed by 5TH Cell, Scribblenauts Unlimited will include all-new features, more exploration and a completely original gaming experience for the Wii U system, Nintendo 3DS hand-held system and PC this November.

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Ravaged, Now Available at Digital Outlets

Oct 17, 2012

After a successful crowd-funding campaign and praise from gaming press following their large beta and this year’s PAX Prime tournament, 2 Dawn Games and Reverb Publishing announce today the highly-anticipated, online multiplayer first-person shooter Ravaged is now available for Windows PC from Steam, Rain Digital Games,2DawnGames, GameStop, Gamers Gate, Origin, and GameFly.

Also released today is a free playable demo compatible with the retail version, enabling demo players and retail players to compete in the same matches.

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