Archive for June, 2011
Online monetization platform provider Live Gamer will power the microtransactions in 2K ‘ upcoming Sid Meier’s Civilization World, the companies jointly announced Thursday. The Live Gamer Elements platform will be integrated into the game, which includes a monetization engine that handles the game’s e-wallet, virtual goods catalog management, item storefronts and more. “It’s an honor [...]
The E3 demo of Lionhead’s Xbox 360 title Fable: The Journey faced three main criticisms. First, it was presumed the game was on rails, a claim Molyneux has since refuted. Second, it’s for Kinect, a platform seemingly ill-suited to lengthy RPGs. And third, the demo seemed very limited. At the Gamelab conference in Spain, Fable [...]
Game developer Red 5 Studios is seeking to terminate its agreement with publisher Webzen over its online team-based shooter Firefall, claiming a breach in its marketing obligations. According to Red 5′s complaint, Webzen — which will publish and operate the free-to-play game in territories outside of the United States and Europe, primarily Asia — has [...]
The team behind Deadly Premonition, 2010′s wonderfully weird low-budget, high camp survival horror game, is ready to start working on their next cult classic, they just need some cash to start the strange ball rolling. “It’s high time we started working on something new,” said director Hidetaka “SWERY65″ Suehiro on his blog. “However, since the [...]
IO Interactive’s community manager Nick Price has gone to some lengths to talk about what may be in the cards for the Hitman series once the long-awaited Absolution is out and about. First, expect upgrades to Glacier 2, the new game engine the developer has said may “rival the best” (judge for yourself from the [...]
iPlayWinner: Meter seems to play a big part in SFxT. Will we see uses of meter other than tagging? Will there be 3-bar team supers or some other uses? Seth Killian: Yeah, we’ve seen some team super action before. It’s not in this build, but it would be an interesting feature for the future. Let [...]
Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes, the co-founders of Team Meat and the development duo behind Super Meat Boy, have said they are currently working on their next title but refused to go into any further detail. What the pair would tease is the next game’s design: it will be “a bit more experimental” because they felt [...]
Relic has revealed the minimum and recommended PC specs for its upcoming slaughterer Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine; nothing too impossible considering some of the other out there. Do note though that the developer says the “Minimum specs are subject to change,” so it’s best to shoot for the recommended ones. Space Marine is out on [...]
Flying Wild Hog, a brand spanking new studio out of Poland, has sent over a single screenshot of their upcoming yet-to-be-announced PC shooter. They are in good company, as Poland has been a breeding ground for decent lately, with CD Projekt RED’s The Witcher series leading the charge. No information about the unnamed shooter was given, [...]
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