Gaming start up Tiny Speck, co-founded by Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson (both formerly from Flickr), has just announced their new browser-based, massively-multiplayer game Glitch, which will launch in the fall. It’s called Glitch because in the far-distant and totally-perfect future, the world starts becoming less and less probable, things fall apart, the center cannot [...]
Rockstar has announced that the GTA IV standalone expansion , Episodes from Liberty City, will be released for the PlayStation 3 and PC platforms. The Episodes from Liberty City expansion, which was originally released late last year as an Xbox 360 exclusive, contains the Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and Damned expansions to [...]
2D Boy is celebrating the first birthday of World of Goo in two ways – firstly by announcing a new sale and secondly by announcing that an iPhone version of the game is on the way. Firstly though; if you don’t know what World of Goo is then it’s a physics-based puzzler from small indie [...]
Valve has released a statement from the Tokyo Games Show, declaring that it hopes to have a demo of Left 4 Dead 2 available next month. No plans were officially announced regarding platforms, exclusivity or content – but the target date is October 27th. While Valve hasn’t confirmed if the demo will be open to [...]
Valve founder Gabe Newell has hinted that the developer is researching sign language implementation in games for the introduction of a new deaf character in Half-Life: Episode Three. The news comes from a series of YouTube videos filmed at Valve headquarters which are part of a focus group Newell conducted with a hearing-impaired audience to [...]
No doubt as a reaction to all the bad press he’s been giving record labels, Universal/Interscope has relieved Trent Reznor of his contractual duties. As of today, Nine Inch Nails is working without a useless money-grubbing middleman and going straight to the fans. Hello everyone. I’ve waited a LONG time to be able to make [...]
The Top Five Best Games Based on Films
Hollywood doesn’t have a great reputation when it comes collaborating with game developers – pretty much every film that’s ever been based on a game has been forgettable dross at best. Well, except for the Hitman movie maybe. That’s actually kind of fun in a stupid don’t-have-to-concentrate kind of way, if you ask us. The [...]