Posted May 15th 2008 6:30PM by James Murff
Filed under: Downloads, Action, Indie
cactus has long been established as a complete beast of a developer. The indie developer has developed
complete games in the time it takes the normal person to finish Super Mario Bros, as has done it yet again. Working on a competition where the goal is to create a
functional game in 3 hours, cactus has make a quirky little arena shooter with unique mechanics called Kryzta.
Your goal is to kill other ships by luring enemies into shooting their buddies. Once an enemy dies, you can collect his little chunks for points. After a while, you can utilize a special shot as well. It's very simple, like most of his games, but very fun and easy to pick up. Pick up the download off of the
competition thread!
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IndieGames]
Posted May 15th 2008 4:00PM by Samuel Axon
Filed under: Action, Sandbox, Video
DICE and
EA's Mirror's Edge trailer debuted a week ago, and wowed the gaming community with its immersive first-person perspective, interesting visual style, and
Assassin's Creed-esque free-running, city-scaling gameplay. During your first viewing, you'll probably come to believe the game has the makings of a cult hit, and maybe more.
But there are a lot of things you might
not notice on your first viewing. That's why
GameTrailers put together an excellent
HD analysis video. It's packed with observations of hints about the gameplay, the graphics engine, and the setting, and it's all brilliantly edited to match the game's ultra-classy visual
je ne sais quoi.Did you notice the dynamic depth of field effects? How about the police cars circling the buildings Faith is scaling? Or her shoes' obscure Indonesian brand? All that in more in the video.
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Rock, Paper, Shotgun]
Posted May 15th 2008 1:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Mac, Action, Strategy
Eidos' 2007 released WWII naval action-strategy game
Battlestations: Midway was a surprise critical and sales success. Eidos is already preparing a sequel to the game,
Battlestations: Pacific, but before that happens Macintosh owners will be able to play the original game
in a direct port.
The Macintosh version is being handled by UK based Feral Interactive and is due for release June 27 worldwide with the US price coming in at $49.95. You can pre-order the game via
Feral's online store. There's no word yet on any plans for a Mac demo for the game
Posted May 14th 2008 5:00PM by James Murff
Filed under: Action, FPS
For those antsy to enter a barren winter wasteland, where the people
hunt the eggs of giant homicidal insectoid alien things, you're in luck. Capcom has announced today that their bug-hunting epic, Lost Planet Colonies, has
finally gone gold, and will be available to all who wish to partake in its wintry splendor in two weeks. So grab your thermos, gun, and overcoat (which Frank seems to be missing) and prepare for some awesome bug-killing action.
Posted May 14th 2008 4:00PM by Samuel Axon
Filed under: Biz, Culture, Action, Driving
Lethal Weapon co-star and all-around-revered-actor
Danny Glover has
joined the board of directors at Colourblind Entertainment, a United Arab Emirates-based studio developing video games for several world regions. The company is working on a game called
Sharq Warriors.
Sharq Warriors' protagonist is an Arab man named Sami, who will fight to save his country and his sister. "Many existing games feature Western soldiers shooting Arabs, Afghans and other ethnic 'enemies'," said fellow board member Riz Khan. "We're introducing different types of heroes and 'Sami' is the first of them but he fights corruption, not people of another race."
This is an admirable endeavor, and we're looking forward to seeing how it turns out. The game is primarily intended for the Middle-eastern market but a demo is on its way to the internet. Glover also heads up the activist film studio
Louverture Films, which will be working with Colourblind to expand the Sami franchise into other media.
Posted May 14th 2008 2:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Action
In 2005
Remedy, the original developers of the first two Max Payne games, officially revealed and showed a live in-game demo for their next project
Alan Wake. The title, which was described as a thriller type of title in the vein of The X-Files and Twin Peaks, then went into stealth mode. At E3 2006, Microsoft announced they would publish
Alan Wake for both the PC and Xbox 360 and showed off a little more gameplay footage. Since then there has been little to no info on
Alan Wake from either Remedy or Microsoft making the game even more mysterious.
We were hoping for some more info from Microsoft this week as they were holding a big Xbox 360 press event with a number of titles revealed to the media but alas
Alan Wake was not among the games shown nor given a release date. Blog site Venture Beat chatted with Microsoft Games Studios head Shane Kim and asked him flat out, "Is
Alan Wake scheduled for 2008?" Kim's reply was disappointing: "We haven't announced a firm date for
Alan Wake . . " adding that they would announce such a date when they are ready to do so. So we are still in a holding pattern for the game...perhaps Microsoft will reveal more at E3 in July.
Posted May 14th 2008 9:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Demos, Action, Adventure
It's rare that we get to see how a game evolves from its beginnings to its final project. Developer
Frictional Games is doing just that with its release of an alpha version of
Unbirth, a horror themed first person action-adventure game that served as the first step in releasing the first game in their acclaimed
Penumbra series.
The game, which was created by Frictional Games founder Thomas Grip a number of years ago, was never finished but because of popular demand by fans, he decided to release a playable (but still unstable) alpha version of Unbirth which should give
Penumbra fans an interesting insight into the series. The web site also has some more info on the history of the game's development along with monster sketches, level screenshots and design docs and more. Anyone interested in game development should check this out.
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Blue's News]
Posted May 14th 2008 7:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Biz, Action
Oh, those crazy Finland cats. We refer, of course, to
Frozenbyte, the game developer who so far has released two games in the
Shadowgrounds series of top down sci-fi action games. The games may be budget titles but they are a lot of fun and it looks like Frozenbyte is ready give us some more. A lot more.
The company just relaunched its corporate web site and announced that it is planning to release three more original games, one in 2008 and the other two in 2009. That's all the details they are giving at the moment . . . or are they playing with us? The only non-
Shadowgrounds image on their web site is of what looks like a giant 1950's retro style robot attacking something unseen with train cars in one of its metal hands. Hmmmm . . . is that a hint about what their next game is about? If so color us interested.
Posted May 14th 2008 6:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Biz, Culture, Action
It's yet another games-to-comics press announcement today. We already have comics coming up this year based on
Dead Planet,
Prototype and
Brothers In Arms among others. Now Devil's Due Publishing has revealed a new agreement with Capcom to bring a number of
Capcom's game properties to the four color publishing world (more details will be revealed this July at the San Diego Comic-Con.
This new agreement will result in four comics based on Capcom games. So far only two have been announced but they are both games that have or will show up on the PC. The sci-fi action game
Lost Planet is one of them and the other is the upcoming remake of
Bionic Commando. Gee..what's next? A Doom comic? A Half-Life hardcover graphic novel? The possibilities are endless
Posted May 13th 2008 2:30PM by Xav de Matos
Filed under: Action, Screenshots
Coming this fall from developer
Replay Studios and publisher
Gamecock Media Group is the stealth-action World War II title, Velvet Assassin. Inspired by real-life British secret agent Violette Szabo, players take on the role of Violette Summer who must infiltrate enemy territory to defeat the growing German war machine.
While
Sam Fisher takes a break from action and Solid Snake only sneaks onto consoles, could Violette fill the stealth-action gap gamers have been craving? Promising "lush-visuals" and a unique combat system, we'll have to wait and see.
Posted May 13th 2008 1:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Demos, Action
The
Lego Star Wars games have been a surprise hit since they first started, first for Eidos who published the first game in the series developed by Traveller's Tales and then by LucasArts who have published all the other Lego Star Wars games since. Now LucasArts and Traveller's Tales are teaming up again to bring another of George Lucas' franchises to the family friendly Lego world with the release of
Lego Indiana Jones The PC demo of the game was just released and features the first section of the full game where you experience a loose adaptation of the opening scene from the debut Indiana Jones film
Raiders of the Lost Ark. It also contains a free play mode. The full version of the game, which takes the player through the first three Indiana Jones movies, is due out in early June.
Grab the Lego Indiana Jones demo nowPosted May 13th 2008 8:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Culture, Action
A number of major film studios are flexible when it comes to having their properties adapted by fans for non-profit fan films. Twentieth Century Fox is apparently not one of them. Years ago gamers coined the term "foxed" when the same film studio got the development team that made the exceptional Alien mod for the original
Quake to
stop development and remove the first public release of the total conversion. Now the very same film studio has decided to shut down the fan-made movie
Payne and Redemption, based on Remedy's action game
Max Payne.
The reason, of course, is that Fox is making its own theatrical
Max Payne movie starring Mark Walhberg as the dark and violent detective (it's due out in October). Apparently having a free fan made
Max Payne movie would not do and earlier this month the writer-director of Payne and Redemption, Fergie "Larry David" Gibson, posted up word on his web site that after having a chat with the VP of Fox's Intellectual Property he was forced to close shop.
You can tell that Gibson is extremely bitter about the whole situation; this is something he has been working on for years. He made three trailers for his film (all now pulled of course) and now all his work is for naught. You could argue that Fox has every right to do what it did; they are spending tens of millions to make and market a
Max Payne movie and they could be concerned that a fan-made non-profit film could cause confusion. On the other hand you could argue that such a fan film could serve as free publicity for Fox's
Max Payne movie. We will never know.
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Blue's News]
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