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Video Game Canon- BAFTA Games Awards: All the Winners from 2003 to Today
- Clair Obscur Completes the Sweep by Winning “Best Game” at 2025-2026 BAFTA Games Awards
- Boss Fight Books to Get a New Look for Richard Moss’s “Age of Empires”
- GDC Awards: All the Winners from 1996 to Today
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Wins “Game of the Year” at 2025-2026 GDC Awards
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- Video Game Research Library
- We Pitched a Museum a 1993 Game Hint Line (And They Actually Said Yes) – Yarn Spinner (2026)
- The History Of The Word “Metroidvania” And How It Spread – A Critical Hit (2025)
- Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment – Bloomberg (2025)
- Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history – Design Room (2025)
- In 2005, games started rewiring our brains – The AV Club (2025)
Author: John Scalzo
Remedy discounts Alan Wake Franchise on Steam, says “greater news to come in 2013”
Remedy is looking ahead to a big 2013, but first they want to make sure everyone gets a good deal on the “Alan Wake Franchise” bundle on Steam. The bundle, which includes Alan Wake, the Alan Wake Extras DLC pack, and Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, has been priced at $19.99 (a 50% discount) through January 5.
The Facebook post announcing the sale also confirmed that the developer has “Even greater Remedy news to come in 2013” and Creative Director Sam Lake tweeted this message in the waning hours of 2012:
Happy new year, all you lovely people! In 2013 we can finally start revealing what we’ve been up to. Can hardly wait. It’ll be cool.
— Sam Lake (@SamLakeRMD) December 31, 2012
Lake himself stoked a few Alan Wake 2 rumors last year. Perhaps that’s what Remedy is up to or perhaps not. But it sounds like we’ll find out for sure very soon.
Posted in News, PC
Tagged Alan Wake, Alan Wake's American Nightmare
XBLA Today: Retro City Rampage
After enjoying a Fall 2012 run on the PC and PlayStation Network, Vblank Entertainment’s Retro City Rampage is ready to make its Xbox Live Arcade debut today.
This wild parody of classic 8-bit games and the original top-down Grand Theft Auto games can be yours for 800 Microsoft Points ($10):
YOU are THE PLAYER. Out of prison and on an mission, your open-world crime spree is ambushed by ”EVIL” GOOD GUYS. They will stop at nothing to protect the citizens of Theftropolis City from your RAMPAGE OF DOOM. Are YOU bad enough to defeat the “EVIL” GOOD GUYS? Retro City Rampage invites you to steal over 40 vehicles and outrun the law while mowing down your fellow citizens! Jump on pedestrians for coins, or use them for target practice with over 25 weapons and power-ups! WHOA! This 8-bit nostalgic throwback comes loaded with over 80 story missions and arcade challenges! Challenge friends and share replays to educate them in the finer points of SUPER CRIME. Lock and load your lightgun. You’ve just entered Retro City Rampage.
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged Retro City Rampage
Polytron porting Fez to other platforms in 2013
Writing on Polytron’s official website, developer Phil Fish has confirmed that his acclaimed puzzle-platformer, Fez, will make its way to additional platforms in 2013:
2013 is going to be an interesting one, too.
For one, FEZ will finally be ported to other platforms.
Yes, i’ve heard you, dozens of people emailing me everyday telling me how much of an idiot i am for not porting FEZ to everything.
Fish didn’t say specifically which platforms would receive a port of Fez in 2013, so I guess it’s up to us to speculate. PC? PS3? Wii U? Maybe… Maybe… and Maybe.
Jetpack Joyride, Chronovolt added to PS Store
Sony rang in 2013 with a small PlayStation Store update consisting of two games: the free-to-play Jetpack Joyride (available on the PS3 and Vita) and Chronovolt (Vita only).
More info on both games can be found here:
PSN Games
Jetpack Joyride (Free)
Join Barry Steakfries as he breaks in to a secret laboratory to commandeer the experimental jetpacks from the clutches of science evildoers.
PS Vita Games
Chronovolt ($4.99)
Chronovolt, an action adventure in time. Pilot the Chronosphere through wonderful worlds to stop Dr Scabious and his Minions from controlling the end of the Universe. Use powerful time controls to stop and rewind time, open time gates and blast enemies into the past.
Jetpack Joyride (Free)
Join Barry Steakfries as he breaks in to a secret laboratory to commandeer the experimental jetpacks from the clutches of science evildoers.
EA shutting down online servers for NBA Jam, NBA Live 10, Sims 2, more
Electronic Arts has announced another round of shutdowns for some of their online-enabled games. This time the hammer is falling on EA Sports’ 2009/2010 slate of games, including NBA Live 10 and NBA Jam. This announcement means that NBA Jam: On Fire Edition becomes EA’s only basketball game with online play.
The publisher is also cutting the cord on online support for The Sims 2, claiming it’s “no longer feasible to continue the behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping these games up and running.”
You can find the full list of upcoming server shutdowns after the break. (more…)
Edge of Twilight will finally see the light of day in Summer 2013
Edge of Twilight is a steampunk fantasy adventure game that has been in the works for a long time. Originally announced in 2007 (and in development well before that), the game was thought to be canceled last year.
But it looks like Edge of Twilight might be breaking for the dawn soon as developer Fuzzyeyes has announced the game will be coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360 in Summer 2013. Not only that, but they’ve also confirmed that an iOS spinoff, Edge of Twilight: Horizon, will be available as a free download on the iTunes App Store soon.
Sadly, the PC version of Edge of Twilight appears to have actually been canceled as no mention of it was included in the most recent PS3/Xbox 360 announcement.
EA says Maple Leafs would have beaten Red Wings in 2013 Winter Classic
if you’re a hockey fanatic, you know that the NHL and the Players Association are this close to cancelling the entire season over their labor dispute. But with talks resuming today, there’s still hope that we could see some professional hockey in 2013.
What you may not know is that EA Sports has been simulating the entire 2012-2013 season with NHL 13 and they just posted a highlight reel of what have been tomorrow’s Winter Classic between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings.
The Winter Classic would have been a tense back-and-forth that remained tied at 4-4 through overtime. But the Maple Leafs would emerge victorious thanks to a shootout goal from John-Michael Liles.
I bet it would have been a great game.
Crystal Dynamics adding multiplayer mode to Tomb Raider
Crystal Dynamics’ reboot of Tomb Raider is definitely one of 2013’s most anticipated new releases. But now, in the waning days of 2012, the developer has revealed that they still have one more secret hidden away in Lara Croft’s short shorts… multiplayer!
The first details about the game’s multiplayer mode will appear in the February 2013 issue of Official Xbox Magazine, which should be shipping to subscribers now (it’ll be available at newsstands on January 8).
Do newsstands even exist anymore? They must, but it just sounds wrong.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Tomb Raider