News
5 Comments

Dungeons and Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara now available to download

Dungeons and Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara, a two-part package featuring remakes of classic side-scrolling beat-‘em-ups, is now available to download, Capcom announced via press release. Chronicles of Mystara includes Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom, originally published in 1993, and Dungeons and Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara, released in 1996. The remake includes achievements and trophies, unlockable concept art and more. The game also features a Character Visualizer that allows players to keep track of which characters are used most often. PlayStation Network and Steam users can pick the game up today, while Xbox Live Arcade users can grab it tomorrow for $14.99 or 1,200 Microsoft Points. An eShop version for Nintendo Wii U is expected to launch soon and will incorporate new...
News
4 Comments

Xbox Live users will receive sneak peek of SNL alums' cartoon The Awesomes

Xbox Live users will get a first look at Hulu original series The Awesomes beginning on July 25, Xbox Wire announced. The Awesomes is a cartoon superhero comedy created by Saturday Night Live veterans Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker. The show stars the son of Mr. Awesome, Prock, who begins recruiting new super heroes for a squad following his father's retirement. The show's cast includes Muscle Man, who is "as strong as he is stupid," Frantic, the world's third fastest human and a redneck, and Impresario, who can conjure images of his mother with his magic jewel. Bill Hader, Taran Killam and Kenan Thompson will lend their vocal talents to the show's cast. The show will air all week on Xbox Live before premiering on Hulu Aug. 1. You can check out the teaser trailer above for a brief...
Speed Run
5 Comments

State of Decay, Shadowrun Returns, Ken Levine, EA, Pikmin 3: Speed Run

State of Decay has sold more than half a million copies since it launched last week, making it the fastest selling original game on Xbox Live Arcade. Shadowrun Returns' release date has been pushed back to July 25. Ken Levine is writing the screenplay for an upcoming remake of the 1976 sci-fi film Logan's Run. The restructuring at Electronic Arts continues with more layoffs. We've got a new feature from E3 on Shigeru Miyamoto and Pikmin 3. State of Decay to get 'pure survival' sandbox mode, becomes fastest-selling XBLA game Shadowrun Returns delayed, now launching July 25 with full editing tools BioShock creator Ken Levine writing Logan's Run remake screenplay EA layoffs continue company-wide restructuring Pikmin 3: little plants in the shadow of giants
0 Comments

Activision in top 100 licensing outfits, leading games into pajamas and playsets

Activision says it is now in the top 100 licensing outfits in the world, thanks mainly to one product, Skylanders. The company announced it has doubled its licensing deals in the past 12 months, and it's made that top 100, according to License Global's Top 150 Licensors of 2012. Today marks the first day of the glitzy Licensing Expo in Las Vegas where the world's entertainment companies seek to trade their leading IPs into everything from backpacks to breakfast cereals. Of course, Activision also trades in Call of Duty and World of Warcraft licensing deals — mainly video game-related gear like headsets and other peripherals — but Skylanders is where the pillows, plushies and pajamas are happening. As well as the figures that play with the Skylanders games, there are decorative...
News
2 Comments

Skulls of the Shogun Bone-A-Fide Edition hits Steam in July with new maps, mini-campaign, monk and more

Skulls of the Shogun, developer 17-bit's turn-based strategy game set in the samurai afterlife, is headed to Steam as the Bone-A-Fide Edition with new maps, a new monk, a new mini-campaign and more, according to the game's official website. Beyond the original campaign, which was released for Windows 8, Windows Phone and Xbox Live Arcade, the Bone-A-Fide Edition will include a mini-campaign called the Forgotten Isles, which will "challenge even die-hard skull-munchers" with four new levels. Rather than resetting like in the original campaign, troops will carry over through each level, demanding a long-term strategy. The Steam version will also include six multiplayer maps based on the Forgotten Isles, a new monk called the Tanuki (pictured above) whose bells and spells "focus on...
News
0 Comments

Lost Planet 3 multiplayer pits Pirates against Pioneers, features mechs and special abilities

Lost Planet 3's multiplayer allows players to customize their character's abilities through a progression sphere and play through multiple team scenarios. We spent some time with the game's multiplayer at E3. During our demo, we engaged in five-versus-five multiplayer as part of the NEVEC team. NEVEC's goal was to protect a series of points around the map, while the Pirates simply needed to stall and keep NEVEC from completing its objective. A menu at the top left of the game's screen informs players of their progress by displaying bars that brighten as different objectives are achieved, which made it easy for us to track our goals at a quick glance. The match we played was a standard 10 minutes, though a representative told us they can last anywhere from five to 20. Players have two...
News
3 Comments

Black Ops 2's third DLC pack, Vengeance, launching July 2 on Xbox 360

The third of four map packs for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is called Vengeance, and it will be released July 2 on Xbox Live Marketplace, publisher Activision announced today. The downloadable content will feature three new maps — Cove, Detour (screenshot above) and Rush — and a fourth, Uplink, that is a remake of the Summit map from the original Call of Duty: Black Ops. It also includes a new Zombies game type, Buried, that comes with a new weapon for the Zombies mode, the Ray Gun Mark II. There's no word yet on the price, or on the release date for other platforms. The game's first two DLC packs, Revolution and Uprising, each cost 1,200 Microsoft Points ($15) for players who don't own the Season Pass. All Call of Duty DLC packs are released on Xbox 360 first, and then launch about...
Deals
1 Comment

Xbox Live Marketplace sale includes 50 percent off PopCap games this week

The Xbox Live Marketplace is offering 50 percent discounts on a handful of PopCap games this week, as well as special deals on select games and downloadable content, according to a post on the Major Nelson blog. Beginning today and ending June 24, Xbox 360 gamers can snag the following games at half their original price: AstroPop for $5 (400 Microsoft Points) Bejeweled 2 for $2.50 (200 Microsoft Points) Bejeweled 3 for $7.50 (600 Microsoft Points) Bejeweled Blitz Live for $2.50 (200 Microsoft Points) Feeding Frenzy for $2.50 (200 Microsoft Points) Feeding Frenzy 2 for $5 (400 Microsoft Points) Heavy Weapon for $5 (400 Microsoft Points) Zuma for $2.50 (200 Microsoft Points) Zuma's Revenge for $5 (400 Microsoft Points) Also on sale until June 24 is Call of Duty:...
News
24 Comments

State of Decay to get 'pure survival' sandbox mode, becomes fastest-selling XBLA game

Developer Undead Labs is currently working on a "pure survival" sandbox mode for its zombie game State of Decay, which recently passed half a million paid downloads, says executive producer Jeff Strain. According to Xbox Wire, State of Decay is the fastest-selling original game ever published through Xbox Live Arcade, selling 500,000 copies since its launch on June 5. Strain promised Undead Labs will continue to push updates for State of the Decay based on fan request. The second title update for the game will add a new mode designed to embody the zombie-survival experience. "For a start, I can tell you we're working on a sandbox mode designed to be a pure survival simulation," Strain said. Eurogamer reports that a follow-up game to State of Decay, a massively multiplayer online...
News
17 Comments

State of Decay patch is causing problems for XBLA users

Xbox Live Arcade zombie title State of Decay has received its first console patch; however, users are noting the update is causing numerous problems in-game. According to the development team at Undead Labs, numerous bugs believed to be fixed by the title update remained problematic in the live version of the game. These include reports of an error warning users of "too many" zombie infestations in-game. It has been determined that while the patch is being successfully downloaded it is not being applied in the live game. Executive producer Jeff Strain acknowledged the problem on the studio's official forums, stating that while the studio is in touch with Xbox to find a solution, it is yet to be able to offer an estimated date for the patch fix. "we're on the phone with our publisher...
News
12 Comments

Takedown: Red Sabre makes a hardline emphasis on tactics and realism

Takedown: Red Sabre, the squad-based tactical shooter from Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon creative director Christian Allen's development studio, is a step away from traditional AAA military shooters and flaunts an emphasis on tactics, realism and teamwork. The result is unforgiving, gratifying and addictive. Serellan is an indie start-up of roughly ten people. Everyone on the team holds no less than ten years experience in the game development industry. The studio's founder Christian Allen, has 20 years experience within the industry alone, working on several tactical shooters like Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. Allen said it is a mid-core game, not a hundred million dollar game and the team is obviously not trying to compete with likes of Call of Duty. His goal is to bring quality games to the...
News
13 Comments

Castle of Illusion plays on nostalgia wisely with a blend of remake and homage

Sega is looking to hit thirtysomething gamers square in the nostalgia zone with Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse, a 3D update to the simple but classic Disney platformer for the Sega Genesis. In that regard, developer Sega Studios Australia is already successful. The gameplay is largely unchanged, merely modernized. Mickey jumps through the game's varied castle environments much as he did in 1990. He'll navigate through Castle of Illusion's fantasy worlds via a 3D hub, unlocking new environments as he collects gems. Mickey relies on a jump stomp to crush his enemies, and has access to a limited number projectiles, like marbles and torches. At E3, Sega showed off two levels from the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version of Castle of Illusion, including the game's take on the...
News
1 Comment

Wolfenstein: The New Order is built on pillars of action and adventure

Wolfenstein: The New Order, MachineGame's reimagining of iD Software's military shooter, is more than just a regular first-person shooter, according to gameplay designer Andreas Öjerfors. It's also an action adventure game. Speaking to Polygon, Öjerfors said that the theme of Wolfenstein — that of a retro, sci-fi future set in the 1960s where the Nazis won World War II — offered the development team opportunities to explore larger-than-life political leaders, weird technology and strange experiments, so it embraced these elements and made the game a first-person action adventure game. "In the adventure aspect ... players [will be taken] around the world to explore all of these different places [and] explore the realities of this new world where the Nazi have taken over the...
News
2 Comments

The Cave headed to iOS this summer

The Cave, Double Fine's modern adventure game staring a large cast of mismatched characters and an anthropomorphic cave, is headed to iOS this summer, a representative from the developer confirmed to Polygon. According to a hands-on report from TouchGen, the mobile version remaps the control scheme to focus on taps instead of a virtual stick for movement and adds swipes for jumps. The Cave is already available for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, Windows PC, Mac and Linux. For more on the game, be sure to read Polygon's review for The Cave.
News
11 Comments

Battlefield 4 alpha trial begins today, vehicle customization photos surface

Battlefield 4's alpha trial kicks off today for select users and will run until July 1, as revealed by a photo posted by MP1st. According to a post from one of DICE's battlelog producers, there will be only one alpha trial. Everyone that will be included in the trial has already received emails, and players will need the following specs, posted by MP1st, to run it: OS: Vista SP2, Win7 (Win8 not supported) 64 bit (32 bit not supported) Dx10 or Dx 11 GPU with 1+GB of RAM, Dx 11 highly recommended 25GB HDD free space required Latest Origin version required Photos of what appears to be the game's vehicle customization options have also been posted by NeoGAF user shinobi602. According to the screenshots, vehicles include a primary and secondary weapon, countermeasure, optics, upgrade...
tracking_pixel_5353_tracker