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XSEED has announced that its ink wash painting meets action platformer title Sumioni: Demon Arts will be available in North America on March 20th. Set in ancient Japan and presented in a ‘sumi-e’ art style, Sumioni puts players in control of an ‘ink demon’ who has been summoned from a …
Read More »Rumor: Valve developing ‘Steam Box’ console
A potential bombshell could be coming from the direction of Valve HQ, followingreports last monththat the company would consider its own hardware. The PC developer and digital distribution giant is actually well beyond that point The Vergewagers. According to their sources, the company has been working on a hardware spec …
Read More »Artplant creates Game of Thrones MMO
BigPoint has announced an upcoming Massive Multiplayer Online RPG based on the popular HBO-series Game of Thrones, with Norwegian studio Artplant on development duties. Artplant, best known in Norway for various games for children based on popular television shows, has expanded heavily in the last two years, and broke through …
Read More »Gamescom 2012 ticket pre-sales detailed
Gamescom is to open up pre-sales for tickets to registered attendees, it has announced. Those wanting to attend the European games convention will be able to reserve tickets starting from April if they register to the Gamescom newsletter by March 17th. Official ticket sales will begin in May, and those …
Read More »Gamescom 2012 to begin ticket pre-sales next month
Attendees must register to event newsletter by March 17th to reserve spaces
Read More »Svampriket aims for kids in Sweden
Up-and-coming Swedish gaming blog Svampriket is introducing a new section, called Junior, aimed at younger children – and their parents. The strandis a development of their previous video blog series, Mamma Pappa Barn, where children played games and talked about them with an eye to the younger demographic and their …
Read More »Zynga stock up following publishing reveal
Shares in Zynga jumped ten per cent yesterday on news that the social games giant is to launch its own games portal away from Facebook. The City’s interest in Zynga’s new venture drove its share price from $13.43 to $14.49 at end of trading. Zynga.com, which will launch in beta …
Read More »Expect more Resident Evil on 3DS
You can expect much more in the way of Resident Evil games on the 3DS, if the latest comments from Capcom producer Masachika Kawata are anything to go by. The first RE title for the system, Resident Evil: Revelations, was released on 3DS in January and has clearly met the …
Read More »EA goes Global in Sweden for Mass Effect 3 Space Edition
Bioware and EA hosted their own version of the Mass Effect 3 Space Edition event in Stockholm last night. After three days of puzzling together clues on gaming web site Gamereactor, fans gathered in front of the Stockholm Globe Arena for the final piece of the mystery late last night. …
Read More »INTERVIEW: The UK Vita launch at GAME
It’s a cold February evening but a modest crowd has braved the elements to queue up outside GAME’s flagship Oxford Street branch. Journalists mutter in huddled groups that the turnout doesn’t match that of midnight openings for Call of Duty or Skyrim, and they’re not wrong. As the first major …
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