It’s been ten years since Valve announced Half Life 2: Episode 3 and the internet is pretty much convinced that the game will never be made. Originally conceived back when episodic gaming was nowhere near as prevalent as it is in this post-Telltale world, Valve hoped that splitting one giant game (Half Life 3) into … Continue reading “Ten Years Later, Half Life 3 Still Doesn’t Exist”
Laura Naviaux Sturr, chief publishing officer over at Daybreak Game Company, sat down with Gamesindustry.biz in order to discuss the developer’s last year, certain hurdles, and how the company is looking forward. Over the past year, Sony Online Entertainment was spun off into its own company under a new name, saw massive layoffs and the … Continue reading “Daybreak Game Company in “Growth” Mode”
Trion Worlds is celebrating three years of Defiance with events aplenty this month. Starting April 1st and going through the 25th, players will be able to engage with the Midsummer Mutiny, Hulker Hell, New Frontier Harvest, Solstice Strike, and Colony Courtship events. Players are also invited to share their memories of the game on social … Continue reading “Defiance Piling On Events This Month”
(Disclosure: The review copy of this game was provided to us) I wouldn’t be doing my job as a guy who writes about games online if I didn’t wax poetic constantly about how the new generation of games are all garbage in comparison to the older, and how you kids today wouldn’t know quality gaming … Continue reading “[Less Massive] The Mean Greens: Plastic Warfare”
A recent leak from the Steam Helpdesk has resulted in the outing of games and DLC packages coming to Steam. The list is massive and includes numerous test apps not meant to be viewed by the public. It makes references to games that we know are coming out (Rise of the Tomb Raider, Dark Souls … Continue reading “Steam Leak Reveals New Games, DLC”
If you’re looking to buy into Devilian but don’t want to shell out the minimum $50, Trion Worlds has a new package for you. Available as of yesterday, the base Devilian package now costs $20 and includes beta access, a two day head start, a corgi companion that comes with extra inventory slots, fifteen days … Continue reading “Trion Introduces $20 Early Access Pack, Bumps Existing Packages”
Visionary Realms has announced that the Pantheon shop is going the way of the dodo. Citing their vision for the website, VR’s associate community manager Kilsin announced in a forum thread that the store will be reevaluated and, possibly, relaunched in the future without any game altering items. All purchases already made will be honored, … Continue reading “Pantheon Store Has Been Removed”
Digital Extremes announced today that the popular free to play shooter Warframe is now available worldwide on Xbox One via Microsoft’s ID@Xbox program. Billed as mmo-lite, Warframe tasks groups of up to four players with making their way through the galaxy to defeat the evil, genocidal Grineer. On the Xbox One, players will be able to … Continue reading “Warframe Coming To Xbox One”
Star Vault has released their Q1 2014 finances and the results are actually looking good. Net sales broke one hundred thousand for the quarter, up heavily from the previous quarter’s report of eighty one thousand. Net profit remains in the red but increased severely over the previous two quarters, from one hundred fifty thousand in the … Continue reading “Star Vault Sees Q1 Bump In 2014”
Missing Worlds Media has announced via Kickstarter update that City of Titans is in the process of being transitioned to the Unreal 4 engine. What does this mean? Well development has been put back a little bit, but according to the announcement it will be worth it for an even better game. The new engine … Continue reading “City of Titans Moves to Unreal 4 Engine”
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