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- 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
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- GDC Awards: All the Winners from 1996 to Today
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- Video Game Research Library
- Spore: An oral history – Design Room (2026)
- 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)
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Daily Scoop: May 10, 2013 – Hooray for Friday!
Well, it’s finally Friday! I felt like this week just crawled on by. And now I’m going to have another busy weekend! It’s like these weeks just keep meshing into one long week that never ends sometimes. But at least it’s filled with fun stuff! We’re heading down to Maryland tomorrow to play a Battle Interactive, which should be a good time! And Sunday is Mother’s Day, and hopefully also moving some darn boxes day. We’ll see!
I couldn’t find you any deals today, so instead, here’s a GIF of a bunny and a cat.
Lots of great gaming shirts today! (more…)
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Today is the last day to buy the Twisted Pixel Bundle for 800 MS Points
The “Twisted Pixel Games Bundle” (Comic Jumper, Splosion Man, Ms. Splosion Man, and The Maw) was added to the Xbox Live Arcade on April 12 for the low, low price of 800 Microsoft Points ($10). Purchasing all four games separately would run you $45, so it’s a fantastic deal for anyone interested in Twisted Pixel’s oeuvre. If you still haven’t picked it up, today is the last day you can get it at the discounted price.
Tomorrow, May 11, the bundle jumps to 2400 Microsoft Points ($30). That’s still a 33% discount compared to buying the games piecemeal, but its not the super, mega, awesome deal that 800 Microsoft Points is. Sadly, if you already own one or more of the games in the bundle, the purchase price won’t be adjusted accordingly.
Twisted Pixel’s next game, LocoCycle, is expected to be released for the Xbox Live Arcade this Summer.
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged Comic Jumper, Ms. Splosion Man, Splosion Man, The Maw
Shadow of the Eternals uses art assets from Silicon Knights’ Eternal Darkness 2 project
Before Silicon Knights went under, it was widely known that the company was working on Eternal Darkness 2. As far as anyone knows, Nintendo never signed off on the project and Silicon Knights was developing it in hopes of getting Nintendo interested down the line.
Obviously, that never happened and a core group of developers from the company broke off and formed Precursor Games, which launched their crowdfunding campaign for Shadow of the Eternals, a “spiritual successor” to Eternal Darkness, earlier this week. But according to CEO Paul Caporicci, there’s more than just the spirit of Eternal Darkness in Shado of the Eternals visuals.
Speaking to Wired, the developer said: “We did purchase some art assets from Silicon Knights and we were very happy to be able to put those assets created by the talented past employees to use.” Caporicci would go on to say that Precursor is only using art assets from Eternal Darkness 2 and that the rest of the game completed so far has been recoded using CryEngine 3.
Shadow of the Eternals’ crowdfunding campaign is currently available through Precursor’s official website and currently sits at 8.8% funded (a little over $132,000) with 27 days left.
Posted in News, PC, Wii U
Tagged Shadow of the Eternals
XBLA Today: Monaco
After a pair of false starts, the Xbox Live Arcade edition of Monaco is fully patched and ready for your thieving pleasure. It’s a steal at 1200 Microsoft Points ($15) and that’s the last pun I’ll use to describe the game, I promise. In fact, let’s let Pocketwatch Games take it from here:
Assemble a crack team of thieves and execute the perfect crime. Sneak, steal, and run for your lives in single player or with up to four friends in local or online co-op. Find out why it won the 2010 IGF Grand Prize and has been described by Rev3Games’ Anthony Carboni as “quite possible the best co-op ever.”
Monaco has been a favorite of the festival circuit for a few years now, and Xbox 360 owners can finally see what all the hubbub is about beginning today.
Batgirl cripples The Joker in new Injustice: Gods Among Us trailer
The Killing Joke is one of the most famous Batman stories of all time. In the disturbing, The Joker believes that any sane man can become insane after one “very bad day.” To test this theory, he shoots and cripples Barbara Gordon, AKA Batgirl, in front of her father, Commissioner James Gordon. The Joker’s plan doesn’t quite work out as Barbara Gordon rechristens herself Oracle and becomes the supreme source of information for Gotham’s supers and she later regains the ability to walk and retakes the mantle of Batgirl.
All of which leads us to the brand new Batgirl trailer released today for Injustice: Gods Among Us. The world’s favorite librarian dons her batsuit and delivers a massive beatdown to The Joker (who’s wearing his Killing Joke costume).
Batgirl will be available on the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace soon. A Killing Joke costume pack will also be available as a separate download. Wii U owners will be able to download the character this Summer.
Posted in News, PS3, Wii U, Xbox 360
Tagged Injustice: Gods Among Us
Nintendo Download: Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move, More
The Mario and Donkey Kong series never seemed to catch on with gamers like some of Mario’s other sideline franchises. But that hasn’t stopped Nintendo from producing new games in the series and the fifth, Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move, is available on the 3DS eShop starting today. SpeedX 3D: Hyper Edition, a tunnel racer, has also been added to the 3DS eShop this week.
Three other games and a demo are also available this week…
- Xevious and Solomon’s Key come to the Wii U Virtual Console
- Publisher Dream, a “game design tycoon” game, is available on the DSiWare Shop.
- And finally, a Resident Evil Revelations demo will be added to the Wii U eShop on May 14.
More information on all of these titles can be found after the break. (more…)
Injustice: Gods Among Us DLC will be available for Wii U this Summer
If you own the Wii U version of Injustice: Gods Among Us, you may have noticed that you weren’t able to add Lobo to the game’s roster of DC Comics characters. Don’t worry, the developers at NetherRealm heard you and they took to Twitter to assure Wii U owners that downloadable content for the game will be available on the eShop this Summer:
@daviddavidkanto We expect DLC for the Wii U version of Injustice: Gods Among Us to be available this summer. Stay tuned for more details.
— InjusticeGame (@InjusticeGame) May 9, 2013
PS3 and Xbox 360 owners were able to download Lobo yesterday and Batgirl will be available for the two platforms “soon.”
Posted in News, Wii U
Tagged Injustice: Gods Among Us
Daily Scoop: May 8, 2013 – The Internet is full of fun
The Internet is a place that makes me happy! It always has the best stuff on it, like this Songbird Plush, which I really want to buy. I am trying to wait until we move to buy anything, but when I find something that awesome, it’s really hard to keep my cool!
There are a few new deals at GameStop this week that are worth checking out. The Sims 3 University Life Limited Edition is half price at $19.99, and The Sims 3 Seasons Limited Edition is as well. Call of Duty: Black Ops II and FIFA Soccer 13 have both dropped $20 down to $39.99, and Fight Night Champion and Skate 3 have both dropped $5 to $14.99. Scoop ’em up!
No gaming shirts today, but there are four awesome anime-related shirts, so I’m going to be selfish and share those instead! (more…)
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