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Seven Kingdoms announced as Game of Thrones MMO

Seven Kingdoms announced as Game of Thrones MMO

Bigpoint have announced the upcoming Game of Thrones MMO is to be called Game of Thrones Seven Kingdoms. The MMORPG, inspired by the hugely critically acclaimed fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fir... Read More

7 Video Game Death Animations That Will Make You Puke

7 Video Game Death Animations That Will Make You Puke

Violence and conflict are two themes that (for better or worse) seem to dominate the gaming industry. Nearly all games seem to reflect thanatos, a cultural drive toward an inevitable death. Whether it... Read More

Funcom CEO Resigns Before The Secret World Launch

Funcom CEO Resigns Before The Secret World Launch

Funcom CEO Trond Arne Aas resigned recently, right before launch of pay-to-play MMO The Secret World. Foreshadowing? Not quite. As recently reported, Aas wasn't very big on the whole responsibili... Read More

Crytek bullish on F2P AAA games, “will figure out a way” to make SP only games work

Crytek bullish on F2P AAA games, “will figure out a way” to make SP only games work

Cevat Yerli is optimistic about free-to-play AAA games and has mentioned that he will figure out a way to make a game like Crysis 3 work. What he means "by a game like Crysis 3" is that there is roo... Read More

Black Ops II – Now With 70% More Futuristic Nuketown!

Black Ops II – Now With 70% More Futuristic Nuketown!

For those who hate the Call of Duty series but play it anyway, Activision has recently announced Nuketown 2025 as a pre-order incentive for Call of Duty: Black Ops II. As the sequel to the "most ... Read More

Microsoft responds to Sony’s Gaikai acquisition

Microsoft responds to Sony’s Gaikai acquisition

Microsoft has responded to Sony's Gaikai acquisition by saying that they value the cloud tech a lot and have been providing such services to 40 million Xbox Live members. "The cloud has been a ... Read More

Disgaea 5 in Production by NIS

Disgaea 5 in Production by NIS

Nipoon Ichi Software recently announced during the Anime Expo 2012 in Los Angeles that they were working on the next Disgaea title. NIS president Souhei Niikawa, during a Q&A session, didn't say... Read More

Pachter: Gaikai buyout a ploy by Sony to sell more TVs

Pachter: Gaikai buyout a ploy by Sony to sell more TVs

It seems like Michael Pachter is forgetting that Sony Computer Entertainment has bought Gaikai, not Sony as a whole. It makes a difference, the former means the move is solely for their gaming divis... Read More

Seth Killian joins Sony after leaving Capcom recently

Seth Killian joins Sony after leaving Capcom recently

This is really big, as Sony has acquired a vital talent at their in-house studios. Seth Killian, former Capcom fighting man and community manager, has joined the company and will work on PlayStation... Read More

PS4 being worked on by Sony since August 2010 – Report

PS4 being worked on by Sony since August 2010 – Report

In what could be a proper confirmation that the successor to the PS3 is indeed in development, a Linkedin CV of an ex-SCEA R&D director has outed some vital information that won't please So... Read More

EA: We’re going to be a 100% digital company in the future

EA: We’re going to be a 100% digital company in the future

EA's Frank Gibeau has mentioned that it is inevitable that the company will be 100% digital in the future, but they will still continue to provide games on whatever format the demand is. "For us,... Read More

Brian Farrell: THQ now stable, but lacks “a lot of room to run”

Brian Farrell: THQ now stable, but lacks “a lot of room to run”

THQ CEO Brian Farrell has cited the Q4 results for the company as a sign that the company is now stable and is on the right track for recovery. "We want to show the shareholders that the heavy ... Read More

Analyst: Vivendi won’t sell ActiBlizz due to lack of buyers

Analyst: Vivendi won’t sell ActiBlizz due to lack of buyers

Wedbush Morgan analyst, Michael Pachter, has said that Vivendi won't sell its 61% stake in Activision Blizzard because he doesn't expect a lot of buyers simply because $8.1 billion asked is too expe... Read More

Games The Shop makes its presence felt in Ahmedabad, opens first store in the city

Games The Shop makes its presence felt in Ahmedabad, opens first store in the city

Games The Shop is making its presence felt in India and has opened a new store in the fabulous city of Ahmedabad. Distributor E-Xpress' retail chain is pretty successful considering they are expa... Read More

505 Games to be distributed by Origin Games in India

505 Games to be distributed by Origin Games in India

Origin Games is a new distributor in India who specializes in bringing Konami games here; massive props for that, and they have also announced that they will be distributing 505 Games' games in In... Read More

Crytek’s Fibble – Flick ‘n’ Roll Gets Major Content Update

Crytek’s Fibble – Flick ‘n’ Roll Gets Major Content Update

Crytek, better known for their next generation technology and mature shooters, took a more easy breezy route with Fibble - Flick 'n' Roll for the iPad, iPhone and iPod. The action-puzzler sees a maj... Read More

And Again the Darkness: Playdead Launches Limbo Special Edition

And Again the Darkness: Playdead Launches Limbo Special Edition

 What could be better than a limited boxed release for an award-winning indie platformer? A limited box release for Limbo, currently available on XBLA, PSN, PC and Mac OS. Playdead today announced... Read More

Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes HD set for iOS and Android

Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes HD set for iOS and Android

Just as Might and Magic is one of the more revered PC role-playing game franchises of all, so is it's off-shoot Heroes of Might and Magic was considered one of the finer turn-based strategy game fra... Read More

Project X Zone New Trailer: 10 Minutes of Fan Favourite Goodness

Project X Zone New Trailer: 10 Minutes of Fan Favourite Goodness

[HTML1] It's impossible to not mark out when watching the new trailer for Project X Zone, the new tactical RPG from Banpresto/Monolith Soft. Honestly, if seeing Ryu from Street Fighter hanging wit... Read More

Total War: Rome II Announced, Set for 2013 Release

Total War: Rome II Announced, Set for 2013 Release

Fault the Romans for many things, but they knew war. They knew war like most people knew breathing air or chopping onions (and were pretty good at those, too). In honour of the critically acclaim... Read More