Since the recent growth in Steam we have seen indie games become more and more popular. Games such as Dungeon Defenders and Super Meat Boy have seriously hit it off with the market by making as much profit as a normal retail game in some cases.
We love these indie games because of the innovation that seems to be drained from the mainstream publishers, we see brand new ideas from hundreds of different studios that would never have the chance if we didn’t have distribution services such as Steam and the popularity of social networks today. One of the greatest things about indie games though are the prices, and by prices I don’t mean the regular price you pay when the game is released. When I talk about prices I mean bundles, indie bundles to be exact! If you have not learned of this growing phenomenon the basic idea is that a group of developers donate keys to a website for a good cause such as Child’s Play and the website sells these group of games in a bundle for what ever amount you decide to pay. That’s right, they are practically giving their game away. But that is not the point of the bundles, the point is to give what you think the games are worth and how much you appreciate the developers making these games, so you can donate anywhere from 1 dollar to 1000 and it’s all up to you. The most popular bundles seem to be The Humble Indie Bundle, Indie Royale and The Indie Gala. Continue Reading
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Rockstar Games have released the 2nd official trailer for Max Payne 3 today. It shows us a bit more about why he’s fighting the criminals and gangs in Brazil. Max is trying to locate and take back the kidnapped wife of wealthy real estate mogul Rodrigo Branco. The trailer shows lots of shooting, explosions and guns, “just another day at the office” as Max would say. There’s still no indication as to why he shaved his full head of hair though, maybe it was too hot in Sao Paulo.
The game is coming out on May 15th 2012 in North America and May 18th 2012 in Europe on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with the PC version launching on May 29th 2012 in North America and June 1st 2012 in Europe. For more information see the official website: http://www.rockstargames.com/maxpayne3
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Ubisoft have today released a new trailer for their upcoming game, Far Cry 3. Title “Stranded” it follows the main protagonist, Jason Brody, his girlfriend and friend as they go from backpacking on the Far Cry 3 to being kidnapped and running for his life from the ever so slightly mad Vaas. It’s clearly a trailer designed to set up the backstory for the game. If it keeps up this level of action and intensity throughout the game Ubisoft could be onto a sure winner.
You’ll be able to play the game on September 7th 2012. Let’s just hope Ubisoft don’t package their awful always-on-DRM with the PC version.
For more information on Far Cry 3 check out the official website: http://far-cry.ubi.com/far-cry-3/en-GB/home/
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Telltale games, developers behind the Back to the Future, Jurrasic Park and Sam and Max episodic adventure games, have announced Playing Dead, a new 9 part behind the scenes series counting down to the first episode for their The Walking Dead game.
The videos are hosted by AJ LoCascio, the voice of Marty McFly in Back to the Future: The Game, and will offer an insight into the development of the game. Fans will be able to see interviews with special guests including The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and Gary Whitta, screenwriter for The Book of Eli, writer for Gears of War and story consultant for their game. As well as exclusive interviews and development information, fans can expect to have their questions answered in a Q&A segment exclusive to the game’s official site. Continue Reading
New screens for the downloadable Sequel in the Sonic series is starting to look more and more like the Genesis sequel.
This time around we are seeing purple sonics, Tail’s and his plane and even dual abilities? There seems to be a couple of similarities with this game and the sequel to the original Sonic, we even get that fun 3D mini games for the chaos emeralds! You can check out the gallery over at destructoid.
Board games have had just about every theme you can think of these days, Nintendo, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, basically if it has a fan base there is most likely someone trying to cash in on it and what better way to do that than with Monopoly! Well it seems that Blizzard has jumped into the dice filled ocean too.
USAopoly has anounced that there will be two new board games revolving around two of Blizzards biggest franchises. The first being Monopoly: World of Warcraft where players will try to be the richest creature in Azeroth. The other game will be Starcraft: Risk which will apparently consist of 290 custom designed pieces and three different game modes.
Both games will be appearing this summer for a price tag of 40-50 dollars.
3 new screenshots for Max Payne 3 have been released showing Max shooting guns with a range of states of hair. These have obviously been taken from different sections in the game and they all have one thing in common: Guns, explosions and awesomeness. It’s looking explosive and you’ll be able to play it when it comes out in May 2012, for now though check out the screenshots below. Continue Reading
Yesterday Valve announced their first mobile application, Steam mobile, for iOS and Android devices.
Steam users will be able to log into the application, currently in an invite only Closed Beta, and chat to their friends on the go, browse community groups and user profiles, view screenshots and other generated content for their favourite games, read the latest gaming news, view Steam deals and more. Hopefully this means no more missing out on Steam deals whilst away from the PC. Continue Reading
Looks like the PS3 and the PS Vita are getting a good bit of characters that the Xbox 360 isn’t getting. The Sony versions of the game will include Pacman, Cole (from Infamous 2), Toro and Kuro and the original Megaman from NES, and no we don’t mean the pixelated one. Check out the new promo video below!
Today THQ has announced to it’s investors that it was done releasing licensed kids games to put more focus on “core” titles such as Saints Row 3 and Warhammer. THQ opened up the meeting with it’s investors saying that they had sold almost 4 million units of Saints Row The Third and that they expected to sell 1-2 million more. THQ also revealed that their biggest digital sales were Saints Row The Third’s DLC and they have decided that they would focus on their digital services more too. This change of pace for THQ is very big and it gives hope that maybe we will see more quality products from the publisher.
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