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Day For Night Games – the studio which emerged from the ashes of Irrational Games earlier this year – has brought its first project The Black Glove onto Kickstarter. The team is compromised of former Irrational staff, creators of the BioShock and BioShock Infinite series – though if the media …
Read More »Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker lands on Wii U in December
Upcoming Wii U release Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker will launch in North America on December 5th, Nintendo of America has announced. The news was briefly mentioned by the firm among its Super Smash Bros announcements earlier today. The 3D puzzle-platformer is to be priced at $40 and will support select …
Read More »PlayStation Now beta heading to PlayStation TV, Vita
The open beta of Sony’s PlayStation Now streaming game service will be available on PlayStation TV when the microconsole launches later this month. The US PlayStation blog reveals both PlayStation TV and the PS Vita hardware its based on will carry PS Now’s beta version starting October 14th – the …
Read More »Disney Infinity 2.0 hits PC
Disney Infinity 2.0 is now available to play on Windows PC, with Disney Interactive offering a free application supporting the toy and game title. The base client is available now as a free download via Disney’s official site for the game. It includes demos for Spider-Man, The Avengers, Guardians of …
Read More »Crossover platformer Team Indie launches this week on Steam
Notable indie game protagonists are set to unite in Brightside Games’ upcoming platformer Team Indie, launching later this week for PC and Mac platforms. Tim from Braid, CommanderVideo from Bit.Trip.Runner and Clunk from Awesomenauts are among the cast of indie game stars featured in the title, which has players using …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: September 28 – October 4
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor has scaled to the top of this past week’s Steam best sellers chart. The game rallied from a seventh place finish during its launch last week to finish ahead of the Valve Complete Pack – which took the runner-up spot for the second week in a …
Read More »Halo PC-exclusive maps added to Master Chief Collection
Halo franchise developer 343 Industries will pack a batch of maps previously exclusive to Windows PC into Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Xbox One. A new post on Halo Waypoint explains that six maps from the original Halo and two maps from Halo 2 will be included in the …
Read More »State of Decay sells 2m copies
Undead Labs has announced its zombie survival game State of Decay has sold 2m copies across Xbox 360 and Windows PC platforms. In a post on the Undead Lab’s site, the company’s community manager Sanya Weathers waxed on how the milestone was achieved with no marketing and no advertising. "Two …
Read More »Tencent game revenue tops EA, Sony – report
Mobile and free-to-play giant Tencent has been beating out AAA companies such as EA and Activision Blizzard in terms of game revenue, according to a new report. A recently published piece from Newzoo has the China-based corporation topping the 10 highest-grossing public game companies. EA and Activision Blizzard finished second …
Read More »Castlevania classics join Wii U Virtual Console lineup this month
2002 Game Boy Advance release Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance will land on Wii U’s Virtual Console later this month, Nintendo has announced. VG247 reports The game will arrive as a digital download on the North American eShop on October 16th. Nintendo revealed late last month that both Castlevania: Dracula X …
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