Big news for fans of Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy series)! Speaking with MTV News, the director revealed that he’s finally ready to shift into the games side of the entertainment industry.
“One of the things we’re announci…
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26 Jul 2010A NeoGAF user has painstakingly pieced together details of the canceled Legacy of Kain game, The Dark Prophecy. The game was being developed in 2004 by Eidos and Ritual Entertainment, but fell victim to the axe before it could be completed. Now a huge amount of information has been recovered. It would seem that The [...]
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25 Jul 2010A complete set of video presentations from No More Sweden 2010 held earlier this month are now available to watch online, featuring talks by developers like Crayon Physics creator Petri Purho, Bernhard Schulenberg (designer of Where is My Heart?), and Andreas Zecher (Understanding Games) among others. The list of recorded presentations that can be viewed [...]
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20 Jul 2010See more Alice: Madness Returns Videos at Alice: Madness Returns Official Site. As you’ve already read, American McGee is returning to the twisted world of Alice with Madness Returns. The plot sees Alice released from the Rutledge Asylum and put into the care of a London psychiatrist. Alice still has her demented hallucinations so she [...]
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20 Jul 2010To celebrate its swiftly-approaching tenth anniversary, Rockstar Games will compile all of the visual elements that have gone into designing its catalog of games into a three-book set sometime next month. The pages therein will contain everything from conceptual illustrations, models and wireframes to advertisements and box art. This beefy, aesthetically pleasing package comes with [...]
In an announcement perhaps meant to obliterate the definition of “Valve Time,” the publisher announced that Alien Swarm has been rebuilt in Source Engine and will be released — for free, no less — tomorrow, Monday, July 19. The team that originally …
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17 Jul 2010I won’t pretend to know much about the toy/figurine scene other than what I catch briefly over at Tomopop, but I think that even with my limited background in the field I can comfortably say that this Celsius Aran figure by Dave Quiles is amazing. Collectors of such things, can we agree on this? The [...]
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14 Jul 2010 Here are some fresh screenshots for Platinum Games’ superb looking Vanquish. Either these have been touched up like crazy, or Platinum has done some amazing work over the past few weeks, because the new images look absolutely stunning.
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12 Jul 2010Google has “secretly” invested an undisclosed amount of money (estimated to be between $100 million and $200 million) in virtual Ville creator Zynga Games, TechCrunch claims. Why would one highly profitable company dump such a large amount of duckets into another successful company’s coffers? TechCrunch believes that it’s part of a strategy to partner with [...]
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10 Jul 2010Lewis, when marching into the purely-conceptual RPS office to deliver his beautiful Bargain Bucket also brings news that Introversion have made their source code for Darwinia and Multiwinia available. For thirty quid at the Introversion store you gain access to the full source code to nose at and mod to your heart’s delight, the ability [...]