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Publishers 'aren't shaken' by $2m Double Fine Kickstarter campaign
Read More »Double Fine Kickstarter Adventure raises $250k
Adventure game and documentary project reaches over half its goal in four hours
Read More »New Disney Pixar game named for Kinect
Microsoft has announced a brand new Kinect-only game featuring many of Disney Pixar’s most popular IPs. Formerly known as Rush, the freshly renamed Kinect Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure will include appearances from Toy Story, Cars, The Incredibles, Up! And Ratatouille. Little is known about the game other than it …
Read More »Layton and the Spectre’s Call out November 25th
The latest Professor Layton DS puzzle adventure game will hit shelves in the UK and Europe in time for Christmas. Nintendo says Professor Layton and the Spectre’s Call – the fourth full game in its series – will feature new puzzles that will challenge and delight both seasoned Layton fans …
Read More »Third-person COD officially shelved
Remember that mysterious third person Call of Duty game? It now looks like it’s unlikely to ever see the light of day. The studio that was working on it, Sledgehammer Games, has confirmed that the project has been canned. And with Sledgehammer now one of the multiple studios working on …
Read More »Nordic Games to acquire JoWood brand
Publisher Nordic Games has announced plans to acquire rival publisher JoWood and it’s the Adventure Company brand. Both names will now become publishing labels under the Nordic umbrella. Nordic’s immediate plan is to start capitalising on its new back catalogue which includes the likes of Painkiller, Panzer Elite, Legend of …
Read More »Sledgehammer’s COD spin-off on hold
Activision has said that the mysterious "action-adventure" instalment to the Call of Duty franchise is on hold. The game was first cryptically mentioned in the wake of the Infinity Ward saga of early 2010. However, with Sledgehammer named as one of the four studios working on Modern Warfare 3 the …
Read More »Final Doctor Who Adventure dated
The fourth and final instalment in the current run of the BBC’s Doctor Who: The Adventure Games will be released for the PC on Christmas Day. Called Shadows of the Vashta Nerada, it will become available to download on the BBC website right after the show’s Christmas TV special on …
Read More »BBC: Well be catalyst for growth
The BBC believes it can revolutionise the games market with Doctor Who: The Adventure Games. The third-person action PC title is a downloadable free-to-play episodic adventure. But the broadcaster doesn’t believe that giving the game away for free will hurt the games sector, and instead could bring about change for …
Read More »First Doctor Who game detailed
Following its reveal on BBC One last Saturday, concrete details of the first of Doctor Who’s free downloadable games have been released. Doctor Who: The Adventure Games ‘City of the Daleks’ is the first of four free playable additions to the newest series and takes the Doctor to 1963 where …
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