Friday Night Fights is a weekly gathering of Dtoiders to just play games with one another. A good number of Dtoiders are heading out to PAX next week so it will pretty much be a ghost town as far as Friday Night Fights goes. There will be people that will still want to play next week of course so be sure to pay attention to the Friday Night Fightsthread over on the Forumsfor next week....
If you were at one point an activeAge of Conanplayer, the studio is offering the chance to play again for two whole weeks at no charge. Also, during those two free weeks, you’ll get double the experience points. They really want you back, guys. Click through past the break to see the full press release for all of the intricacies. Durham, USA – November 11th, 2009– Funcom has decided to repeat the successful re-evaluation campaign that went live earlier this year for the best-selling massively multiplayer online role-playing game‘Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures’....
Gameloft, one of the most ambitious portable game developers in the business, is celebrating its tenth anniversary this month, and we’re all due a birthday present. From May 10 to May 21, the French studio will be giving away one free iPhone game for two hours every day, excluding weekends. Considering Gameloft develops some of the best iPhone games, includingN.O.V.A,Operation Sandstorm, and even that guitar one with the dreadful covers, it’s got some potentially awesome freebies in the works....
Talk about good timing. With Robot Entertainment working on its new titleOrcs Must Die!, theAge of Empires Online-branded baton has been passed to none other than Gas Powered Games. The transition isn’t just now happening, but this is the firstwe’re hearing about it. “We’ve been working with Gas Powered Games for some time now on a collection of great new content packs (which we’ll reveal a bit later),” says executive producer Danan Davis....
When you’re at GDC, you hear sh*t. We do. We have. So this evening we walked around San Francisco and talked about what we’ve heard this week and what we think is coming up. The topic: portable gaming, with a focus on downloadable games. Listen up, Retail: it’s only a matter of time now. Nick, Conrad and I chat about the GDC buzz around iPhone gaming, the upcoming Nintendo DSi, and a bit about Sony’s next portable console, all while dodging crazed skateboarders and giant trashcans realated to Optimus Prime....
The 9th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards ended with a bang — a bang that could only be brought by a teaser for a hype-inducing game ofModern Warfare 2‘s level. Infinity Ward put the debut video for the first-person shooter on full display, and you better believe we’ve got it embedded post-jump. Besides a green-tinted montage of various locales accompanied by cries of agony and constant gunfire, and of courseModern Warfare 2‘s release date (November 10 of this year), it’s not a whole lot for more casual fans to go on....
Later this year,Dark Sectordeveloper Digital Extremes will release its take on Top Cow’sThe Darkness. We got our first look atThe Darkness 2, the follow up to 2007’s Starbreeze Studios-developed title, at GDC this week. We’ll have a full write-up of what we saw soon, but to get you quickly up to speed, we sat down with project director Sheldon Carter to give us the lowdown on the upcoming title. In our brief interview, Carter drops a few vague story hints, tells us about the new uses for the game’s Darkness powers, and more....
WhileDead Islandis officially set to hit shelves this coming Tuesday, a few naughty retailers have started selling the game early. Reader Spencer writes to us with photographic evidence of his purchase of Techland’s zombie-slaughtering bonanza, having picked it up from a Game Craze location in Victor, New York. We’ve heard other reports of larger retailers, such as Target and Walmart, having the game on shelves, as well. Have you been able to pick up a copy of the game early in your area?...
According to the front Malaysia’s “premier gaming mag” PC Gamer,Grand Theft Auto IVis coming to the PC. As we aren’t in Malaysia, when the misadventures of Niko Bellic and company will be invading your rig is unknown. Above is my artist rendition of the magazine cover that we caught a glimpse of atOverclock. SInce we have no clue as to what is exactly coming with the package, it’s time for gross speculation....
Whenour sources toldus Swedish-developer GRIN (Bionic Commando,Wanted: Weapons of Fate) was working on an Final Fantasy spin-off action title for Square Enix, we were stunned. But when then studio closed and concept art for the game started to leak out, we were sure it was all but dead. (Ours requests for comments on the story at the time were not returned by Square.) But according toGameIndustry.biz’s sources, the title is still in development at Square Enix....
While Sony is ready toput the past behind it and move onwith a safer, more robust PlayStation Network, the hackers have not had their fill. At least as far as one group, LulzSec, is concerned. The hacker group has promised further attacks, and promises to “end” Sony with its actions. LulzSec is implicated in the hacking of Sony BGM’s music site and says that “Phase One” of its grand master plan is going to begin soon....
We all knewHarvest Moonwould make its way to the Wiieventually, and today it’s finally being released in Japan.Harvest Moon: Tree of Peaceoffers all the pastoral pleasure we’ve played through before, but now you get to pull weeds and milk cows with a Wiimote. Will you be rushing to the stores when it comes to America this Winter? Or is this game’s manual labor movements where you draw the line with the Wiimote?...
I am honored to bring you this installment of ‘Hey Ash, Watcha Playin.’ Usually, Ashley does such things, but she is in a land without internet and so the duty falls upon me. She left me with these instructions: “All you have to do is take a screengrab for the header, say something funny about it and link to the episode. It’s really easy!” Sadly, I have nothing funny to say and I think I did the header image wrong....
