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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 »Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes dated for Steam
The PC port of Konami’s Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes will be released before the end of the year. Specifically, the game will arrive on Steam on December 18th. The PC SKU will offer 4K graphics as well as an increase in simultaneous light sources, the number of models …
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 »Star Citizen to enter Guinness Book of World Records
In-development space sim Star Citizen will enter the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest crowdfunded effort ever, lead developer Chris Roberts has announced. Roberts stated in a new post on Roberts Space Industries that the title will go into the record books "not as the largest crowdfunded game …
Read More »Windows 10 announced, coming late 2015
Microsoft has revealed the next iteration of its Windows operating system, Windows 10. Leapfrogging from the divisive Windows 8, which was released back in 2012, Windows 10 will reintroduce many of the features that were removed from Windows 8. This includes the iconic Start menu, which will implement some of …
Read More »Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare ‘Legends of the Lawn’ out this week
Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare is set to receive a batch of free content with the impending arrival of the game’s new Legends of the Lawn update. Publisher EA and developer PopCap Games have announced the update will launch tomorrow – Tuesday, September 30th – as a free download across …
Read More »Syfy renews Defiance for third season
Trion and Syfy’s TV and gaming crossover experiment Defiance will get a third season, the television network has announced. Episodes for the upcoming season will begin airing weekly later this year, according to Syfy. In the meantime, Trion is prepping a new major update for the accompanying free-to-play PC title. …
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