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After some four years of development, indie studio 24 Caret Games finally released its startlingly unique downloadable PS3 title Retro/Grade last month. Described as a rhythm-based backwards sidescrolling shooter, Retro/Grade sparkles with polish as soon as the main menu and loading screens appear.The game has players starting out literally at …
Read More »INFOGRAPHIC: The Global State of the Games Media
Print is a dying medium, right? Well, try telling that to the almost 230,000 people that read Moshi Monsters every month, or Game Informer’s ludicrous 7.5m subscribers (8.16m readers in total). Talk of Nintendo Power’s impending closure may imply that the magazine is struggling, but it still retains 475,000 loyal …
Read More »Classic pinball series to be reborn thanks to Kickstarter campaign
Crowdfunding isn’t just being used to create new games brand – it’s bringing new life to old ones as well. UK developer Silverball Studios has kicked off a Kickstarter campaign to fund the revival of the popular Pro Pinball series. The franchise first emerged in 1995, but has not been …
Read More »OPINION: Xbox 720 in 2014? You never know, but I doubt it
It was very, very nearly revealed at E3 back in June, but talk of a longer than expected wait for Xbox 720 is bubbling up once again. "We have heard no word yet from Microsoft or Sony about their plans to launch new consoles,” Michael Pachter said in his regular …
Read More »Old School vs New School in new Freddie Wong YouTube hit
The thing to remember is that this stuff is made by an amateur! You wouldn’t know it, though. Freddie Wong is already well known to online games fans for his fantastic video game themed shorts, but this new video is really something else. Called Old School vs New School, the …
Read More »Ubisoft officially scraps always-on PC DRM
In what can only be described as a victory for consumers, Ubisoft has scrapped its controversial always-on DRM for PC games. It marks the end of a long and painful saga for the company although some observers will be disappointed that Ubisoft does not concede that aggressive DRM is an …
Read More »Galaxy S III becomes top selling US smartphone, overtaking iPhone 4S
Apple’s iPhone 4S has not finished first in monthly smartphone sales for the first time since its launch eleven months ago. Apple Insider reports that the recently released Samsung Galaxy S III won out in August, though the trend is not expected to continue. Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley expects …
Read More »iPhone 5 announcement incoming
Apple has all but declared the iPhone 5 announcement will come next week. Reported by ars technica, The company has sent out invitations for a media event in San Francisco on September 12th. While the invite doesn’t explicitly state what Apple plans to reveal, the image on the invitation (pictured) …
Read More »Valve charging $100 for Greenlight
Fee designed as barrier to illegitimate projects will be donated to child's play
Read More »Techland working on Dead Island spinoff ‘Project Hell’
Techland, the studio responsible for Dead Island, has announced a new game currently entitled Project Hell. The company’s blog explains over several posts that the title is a spinoff of Dead Island originating as an ‘internal weapon mod’ made by a Techland staffer. Thoughts of DayZ immediately sweep in. The …
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