PC manufacturer Dell has opened up its own new digital content portal , offering a range of PC games from some of the industry’s top publishers. Titles currently available to download include EA’s Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box, Spore, Eidos’ Tomb Raider: Underworld, Warner’s FEAR 2, Atari’s Alone in the …
Read More »Cafe.com sells Boonty to Nexway
Casual games portal Boonty, which is owned by US-based Caf.com, has been sold to French digital content firm Nexway for an undisclosed amount. Boonty co-founders Mathieu and Roman Nouzareth claim that the sale will allow them to focus on their other social games site Caf.com. The news was exclusively revealed …
Read More »Sega gets into casual gaming
Gaming giant Sega has become the latest established player from the games market to make a move into the casual gaming sector with the launch of its new Flash games portal PlaySega. For the complete story, head over to MCV’s sister site CasualGaming.biz.
Read More »PS3 Home edges closer to launch
Sony has launched a brand new web portal for its long-awaited PS3 social networking service Home, adding weight to the claims that the service should arrive before the end of the year. In addition, in the last week Sony is believed to have sent out an additional 100,000 invites to …
Read More »22 Valve titles for £70
With the highly-anticipated Left 4 Dead just a week away, Valve is giving gamers the chance to buy its entire back catalogue for under $100 (70). The Complete Pack is available to download via Steam, and features 22 titles including the entire Half Life series, Portal, Team Fortress and Counter-Strike, …
Read More »McDonalds targets kids with casual games
Ottawa firm Fuel Industries has won the rights to work with leading fast food chain McDonalds to develop an online games portal to promote Happy Meals across Europe. McDonalds has recognised the increasing amount of time children spend playing casual games online, and saw the sector as the ideal way …
Read More »Miyamoto questions Twilight Princess
Nintendo’s head developer and all-round industry legend Shigeru Miyamoto has admitted that he believes there were problems with Wii launch title Zelda: Twilight Princess, whilst also confirming that he’s producing Nintendo’s recently announced Punch Out. Head over to MCV’s sister-site Develop for the full story.
Read More »Miyamoto: â??Something missing from Twilight Princessâ?
Also confirms he is the producer of upcoming Punch Out game; admits love for Portal
Read More »Kongregate launches Labs for indie devs
SPECIAL REPORT: Popular Flash game site offers amateur developers free training, tools and assets
Read More »Prey 2 officially unveiled
After a web-based leak at the weekend appeared to announce the existence of Prey 2, official word has now emerged of the follow-up to 2K Games’ Xbox 360 and PC FPS. The game is being handled by new developer Radar Group, which is being headed up by 3D Realms’ Scott …
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