After a bumpy period, it seems that Dance Central and Rock Band developer Harmonix have got themselves back on their feet again after they successfully secured funding from venture capitalist company The Foundry Group. Previously, the group has backed the likes of Zynga and other big firms and needless to say, the firm was extremely impressed with what they saw from Harmonix, with Group Managing Director Brad Feld saying that the three [...]
UPDATE: Hideo Kojima has said that Ground Zeroes is a prologue to The Phantom Pain. ORIGINAL: Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain are the same thing and have been revealed as Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain at GDC 2013. FOX Engine showcase below. Mind-blowing. Music courtesy of female-fronted Garbage.
A nice little tidbit to come out of this year’s Game Developer Conference is the confirmation from Wargaming.net that they’re ludicrously successfully strategic tank battler, World of Tanks, is coming to iOS and Android. Created with mobile platforms in mind, the game will be called World of Tanks Blitz and will allow players to engage in 7-on-7 matches which have been inspired by the original World of Tanks on PC. [...]
Just hours before the game lands on the App Store at midnight tonight, someone has gone and plonked an half-hour long gameplay video for the iOS version of Final Fantasy V. Of note to franchise fans will be the visual makeover that the game has received. Rather than a grass-roots conversion to 3D, the game will retain its 2D look but will do so whilst embracing new high-definition artwork and [...]
Completely different from the class-based multiplayer game Primal Carnage, which appeared on PC last year, Primal Carnage: Genesis for the Playstation 4 is instead a single-player focused Unreal Engine 4 powered title that is structured in an episodic format. Supposedly being the “immersive dinosaur first-person experience that people have been waiting for.” according to developer Lukewarm Media, the game promises “ a story driven, episodic single player adventure” which takes place [...]
Playdead, the developers of spooky, silhouetted platformer Limbo, have announced that the game will be making the leap to Playstation Vita later this year. According to a report by Joystiq, the game will be outsourced to Double Eleven; the coding outfit that brought LittleBigPlanet to the powerful handheld a few months back. In an interview with Joystiq, CEO Dino Patti explains why he is comfortable with letting another pair of [...]
After its announcement at Gamescom 2012 over eight months ago, everything went pretty quiet in regards to new any information for rain; an errie platforming effort from Sony‘s JAPAN Studio. Well, after such a long silence, Sony have thrust the game back into the public eye; this time with a nearly six-minute long gameplay video which shows off the core gameplay that you can expect from the title. Developed by [...]
Much to the delight of assassins and wannabe privateers everywhere, Ubisoft have just released the first gameplay footage of their next ‘Creed title, Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag. In the video we get to see all sorts of swashbuckling adventure ranging from close-combat with sailors, to ship-to-ship combat, underwater shark fighting (what is it Ubisoft have against those poor beasts?), looting of treasure in addition to the usual Assassins Creed [...]
Warner Bros have today announced that the popular DC Comics mash-up Infinite Crisis, will be getting a MOBA title of the same name for PC at some point in the future. Other than being set in the Infinite Crisis DC multiverse not much is known about the the title other than it offers players the option to play as “Nightmare Batman” or “Gaslight Catwoman.” Like most MOBA titles these days, Infinite Crisis [...]
With a brand new entry in the underwater franchise not seen since 2000′s Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future, the designer of the original 16-bit Ecco the Dolphin games, one Mr. Ed Annunziata, has stepped up to Kickstart a spiritual successor to the aquatic series.