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- Spore: An oral history – Design Room (2026)
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- Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment – Bloomberg (2025)
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Daily Scoop: May 14, 2014 – Bundles ending soon!
There are two bundles that are ending soon, so if you want them, you need to jump on them now! The Royale with Cheese bundle at Indie Royale and the Humble Weekly Bundle are both ending soon. The former includes Continue?9876543210, while the latter includes System Shock 2 with a minimum payment of $9. Scoop ’em up while you still can!
There’s a new Humble Daily Bundle as well – From Outer Space! Pay what you want for X3: Terran Conflict. Pay more than the average to unlock Universe Sandbox. Pay $10 or more to unlock early access to Kinetic Void. Finally, over at Steam, the Daily Deal is Volgarr the Viking for $4.07.
As always, I’ve got a few t-shirts for you! (more…)
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XBL Store Today: Super Time Force, Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 3, Bullet Witch
After multiple delays, Capybara’s Super Time Force, AKA “Contra with time travel,” is now available for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
On the Xbox 360 Game Store, the side-scroller will be joined by Bullet Witch, an “action girl” game that was originally released in 2007. Needless to say, it’s legacy has been eclipsed by a similarly-styled game released three years later.
And speaking of the number three, this week also marks the release of The Walking Dead Season 2: In Harm’s Way, the third episode in Telltale’s episodic adventure series. What hard decisions will Clementine have to make this time?
More information on all of these games can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Tagged Super Time Force, The Walking Dead Season 2
Rockstar will release next-gen game by March 2015 after shipping 33 million copies of GTA5
Rockstar Games had a pretty good year. The developer’s parent company, Take-Two Interactive, presented their quarterly financial report yesterday and announced that more than 33 million copies of Grand Theft Auto V have been shipped to stores since its September 2013 release. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick didn’t specify how many copies of the game have been purchased by gamers, but I’m going to go out on a limb and assume it’s somewhere between “a lot” and “a metric crap-ton.”
However, one piece of information Zelnick was interested in sharing was the news that Rockstar plans to release their first game for next-generation consoles sometime between today and March 31, 2015. While Rockstar still has 70s spy story Agent officially in development and hinted at Bully 2 in the past, this new game is most likely a PS4/Xbox One port of Grand Theft Auto V. Zelnick would only say that “we are excited about what they have in store for the new generation of systems for this fiscal year.”
Rockstar Toronto began hiring developers to work on a project for “next-gen consoles” last year, so whatever it is, it’s been in the works for quite a while now.
Zelnick confirmed that Take-Two would reveal more about Rockstar’s next-generation game at a later date. Presumably, he’s referring to the upcoming E3 Expo.
PS Store Today: Borderlands 2 Vita, Walking Dead Season 2: In Harm’s Way, more
Welcome to yet another weekly PlayStation Store update. The PS4 sits out this week, but there’s still a few big offerings now available for the PS3 and Vita.
Almost first appearing on the PC in 2011 and on the Xbox 360 in 2012, old school FPS Serious Sam 3: BFE lands on the PS3. He is joined by In Harm’s Way, the third episode of Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season 2.
And over on the Vita, Gearbox has brought Borderlands 2 to Sony’s handheld after winning more awards and releasing more downloadable content than any game in living memory on the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. It’s joined by Soul Sacrifice Delta, an enhanced version of Keiji Inafune’s action RPG.
More details on all of these games can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PS3, Vita
Tagged Borderlands 2, Serious Sam 3: BFE, The Walking Dead Season 2
TitanFall: Expedition DLC gets new gameplay trailer
Expedition, the first downloadable expansion for TitanFall, will be available on Thursday, May 15 for the PC and Xbox One and in June for the Xbox 360. But if you’d like to get a sneak peek at the game’s three new maps (“Swampland,” “Runoff,” and “War Games”), you should check out the brand new gameplay trailer above.
Enjoy!
Daily Scoop: May 13, 2014 – 14 Days of Bundles Announced
There’s something crazy happening over at Humble Bundle. Today’s is the Humble Deep Silver Re-Bundle! Pay what you want for Saints Row: The Third, Saints Row 2, Risen 2: Dark Waters, and Sacred 2: Gold Edition. Pay more than the average to unlock Dead Island GOTY, Saints Row: The Third – The Full DLC Package, Metro 2033, Risen, and Sacred Citadel. Pay $9 or more to unlock Dead Island: Riptide – Complete Edition. This is a great deal, but it’s only around for a day. Grab it while you can!
Other than that, the only other deals are at Steam. The Midweek Madness deal is Spec Ops: The Line for $7.49, and the Daily Deal is The Binding of Isaac for $0.99. Scoop up these cheapies while you can!
Lots of t-shirts again today!
Posted in Daily Scoop, Etcetera, News
4A Games opens Malta office to continue work on Metro series
4A Games has been headquartered in Kiev, Ukraine since the company was founded in 2005. Today, the developer announced plans to open a second office in Malta, possibly due to Ukraine’s growing conflict with Russia over Crimea.
The Kiev branch of 4A will remain open, but Creative Director Andrew Prokhorov, Chief Technical Officer Oles Shishkovstov, and other members of the development team will move to Malta. The two offices will work together on 4A’s future projects including Metro Redux, a next-generation remake of Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light, and several unannounced projects. In a statement posted on their official website, 4A revealed that multiple Metro titles are in development, so we might also be hearing about Metro 3 before too long.
“This marks the start of a new chapter for 4A Games,” said Prokhorov. “We are proud of our achievements as a young studio, and humbled by the response to our output so far. The team is looking forward to this new adventure.”
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Tagged Metro Redux
Nordic confirms Darksiders III pre-production plans… still needs to find developer
Yesterday, Joe “Joe Mad” Madureira said that Nordic Games was hard at work on bringing the dormant Darksiders franchise back to life. And now, in a statement to Rock Paper Shotgun, the publisher has confirmed that pre-production work on Darksiders III has begun and that they’re actively searching for a development partner:
“With regards to Darksiders 3: of course we’ve always been busy in the background, talking to a lot of former team members about a continuation of the series, but we are not ready to announce anything officially. Joe Madureira is spot on in saying that DS is not dead and we are committed, though.”
“Before we can say something about the ‘how’ and ‘when’ of publishing/financing the sequel is concerned, we are still busy in properly figuring out the ‘who’ part of this large-scale project. All I can say is that we can and will not settle for second-best solutions in the case of Darksiders.”
The developer behind Darksiders and Darksiders II, Vigil Games was shuttered in the wake of THQ’s bankruptcy. However, most of Vigil’s employees later joined Crytek USA, a new team that has yet to announce their first project.
Hopefully someone can get those two crazy kids together to sit down for a nice chat.
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Tagged Darksiders III