Titanfall Arcade kicks some Asteroids
What do you get when you mix the titans from Titanfall with Atari’s popular retro game Asteroids? You get Titanfall‘s titans in Asteroids silly, what else could you possibly have expected? Respawn Entertainment recently thought it fitting to launch a small, free retro game portal dubbed “Titanfall Arcade” to promote...
OnLive expands cloud offerings with support for local games, MMOs
Cloud gaming pioneer OnLive may have faded from prominence, but two novel streaming initiatives may propel the company back into the spotlight. Key to this resurgence is OnLive’s Cloudlift, a service that allows players to stream games they own to devices that wouldn’t normally support them. Cloudlift currently features support...
Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville hits Steam with adorable fury March 14
It’s been nearly a decade since the final Powerpuff Girls episode aired on Cartoon Network, but the trio of plucky, color-coded heroes will return in Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville. Details are relatively scant, but developer Radian Games describes Defenders of Townsville as “a metroidvania with flying superheroes and a...
Call of Duty: Ghosts update brings Free Fall to the masses
Activision has released updates for every version of Call of Duty: Ghosts, and alongside reams of bug fixes, the big news here is the public debut of Free Fall. As we reported in October, Free Fall is a multiplayer map that drops soldiers into a skyscraper on the verge of...
Batman Arkham Knight set one year later, ‘five times larger’ than Arkham City
The recently-revealed final game from Rocksteady in the Arkham series, Batman Arkham Knight, will feature “traffic-friendly streets” in a map that’s said to be “roughly five times the size” of Batman Arkham City. Lead AI and combat programmer Tim Hanagan told Game Informer that “at any given time, there are...
Ubisoft details European exclusive Child of Light Deluxe Edition
When Child of Light, a game that Ubisoft boldly describes as a “poetic turn-based RPG,” debuts on April 30 it will be available in two flavors: a digital standard edition and, for those in select regions, the newly-revealed, retail Deluxe Edition. Included in the Deluxe Edition of Child of Light...
South Park delayed in Germany, Austria over use of swastikas
South Park: The Stick of Truth was supposed to launch in Germany and Austria this week, but it’s been delayed because it contains an “unconstitutional symbol.” Two guesses what that symbol might be. Hint: It’s a swastika. The swastika is widely known as a Nazi emblem (regardless of its origin),...
New creepy environment video for SOMA-hhhhhhhhhh
Frictional Games’ Soma, the sci-fi horror fest from the developers behind Amnesia: The Dark Descent, has a new environmental trailer out today featuring some ominous voiceover work. The suspense still has plenty of time to build. Soma won’t launch on PC and PS4 until 2015. Continue reading New creepy environment...
Warhammer 40K: Storm of Vengeance beta rages on Steam
The PC beta for Warhammer 40k: Storm of Vengeance launched on Steam this week for $9.99, translating the Warhammer universe into a game of defending lanes. Aside from serving as a chance to play the game early, purchasing the Storm of Vengeance beta works as an early purchase of the...
OlliOlli skating to PC, Mac, Linux, Roll7 debuting game at EGX Rezzed
Indie skater OlliOlli will clear the gap from Vita exclusivity to combo tricks on PC, according to a post for the EGX Rezzed convention. Developer Roll7 also responded to a fan’s inquiry on Twitter, confirming that Mac and Linux will be among OlliOlli‘s new grinding grounds.The EGX Rezzed post states...