PopCap Games, creators of infamous time sinks Bejeweled, Zuma, Bookworm and Peggle, has today become a part of the equally infamous WildTangent former spyware/bloatware casual game advertising network and digital-delivery platform.
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Good news for huge publishers and homebrew XNA developers alike: sooner or later, your Xbox Live Arcade filesize limit should see an upgrade from the current pitiful 150MB to a slightly more reasonable 350. Though it’s probably still not enough space for even a highly-optimized copy of Portal, the update will at least mean that [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Just this last weekend, Blizzard unveiled an attractive new layout for its online store — with some substantial new additions I hope their competitors rapidly adopt as well. In addition to boasting a worthy assortment of not only retail games but books, clothing, action figures, even a pair of three-ring binders — the update also [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 28, 2008
If you own a decent PC, nabbing a copy of 2007’s ridiculously awesome spatial-thought stimulator Portal is a piece of cake, but home console owners aren’t so lucky. The Nintendo Wii crowd already had their turn to be disappointed, but today we learned Microsoft rejected a potential Xbox Live Arcade version of Portal as well.
Continue reading...Thursday, April 24, 2008
Game|Life is reporting that the previously Japan-only Minna no Nintendo Channel will finally be coming to U.S. shores, and is set to launch May 12th — the same day Nintendo’s miniature digital-delivery platform WiiWare will also arrive. Sporting a Nintendo game release calendar and user-submitted game reviews, the channel also turns the Wii into a [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 21, 2008
According to the Los Angeles Times, Sony is currently in licensing talks with TV and film studios to launch a digital-distribution platform for online video — straight from the internet to your PlayStation 3. Anonymous studio executives say it could arrive “as early as this summer.”
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Yesterday, GameCyte attended a particularly eye-opening presentation at the 2008 MI6 conference. You may never have heard of a company called Electronic Entertainment Design And Research (EEDAR), but they’re certainly interested in you.
Continue reading...Monday, April 7, 2008
Stardock, publisher of Sins of a Solar Empire and whose CEO Brad Wardell voiced a controversial opinion about game piracy two weeks ago, today announced a partnership with Gas Powered Games (Dungeon Siege, Supreme Commander) to publish Demigod.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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