Archive: April, 2013
Indie developer Combit Studios has recently announced that it will be partnering with River City Ransom EX developer Million to create “an official, worldwide follow-up to River City Ransom.” The game will be available for Windows in August 2014, according to the… Read More »
It was announced earlier this month in the most recent Nintendo Direct broadcast that EarthBound (known as Mother 2 in Japan), the endearing cult classic RPG for the SNES, would finally make its way to the North American Wii U… Read More »
2K Games — the company that brought you Borderlands and Civilization — has confirmed in its blog that while the publisher is excited about next-generation hardware, it’s still busy preparing announced titles and has chosen not to feature a booth at E3… Read More »
Ubisoft announced earlier today that Watch Dogs, the company’s highly-anticipated open-world action game, will arrive in North America on November 19 and Europe three days later on November 22. The game will launch on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo… Read More »
I am not the main character in Papo & Yo, and neither are you. Vander is. Before Papo & Yo (translated to the nicknamed “Papo and I”), I knew video games were player-centric. In every other game’s given galaxy (excepting… Read More »
Every Sunday, my brother and I like to boot up our SNES and throw on Tetris Attack. Most times, well, every time until recently, my brother stomped me. It’s like something would go off in his head any time I… Read More »
In 1851, Harper and Brothers published an adventure writer’s exploration into a then-modern poetic adventure. Moby Dick initially sold around 500 copies in Melville’s native England, less than a tenth of what his previous, high-intrigue island adventures had sold. And… Read More »
Electronic Arts recently began workforce reduction, estimating job layoffs at the company to reach as high as 10 percent. EA has declined to comment on teams affected or the official headcount, but this was EA’s statement Friday: In recent weeks,… Read More »
Soon after getting his hands on the Google Glass headset (Explorer Edition), hacker Jay Freeman took just two hours to jailbreak the device! The well-known hacker, ‘Saurik’, used a jailbreak for Android 4.0, developed by B1nary, to root the wearable computing device,… Read More »
By now, it’s nearly impossible not to have heard about the Oculus Rift. It’s the promising new virtual reality headset which gained exposure and monetary backing through the increasingly popular crowdfunding website, Kickstarter. High profile game developers such as Gabe Newell, John Carmack and Cliff Bleszinski… Read More »
