Category Archives: Apple

Mojang’s business developer Daniel Kaplan has revealed that the company’s smash hit Minecraft has sold 9.2 million copies across its different versions.

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Tin Man Games, the developers of ‘gamebook’ adventures, have nabbed the license to put out iPhone, iPad and Android apps based on the new Fighting Fantasy gamebook from Ian Livingstone, co-creator of the series.

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The Because We May indie sale has gone live. The promotion features various genres for various platforms, and was started by indies as a way to “set the price of their own games,” free of what publishers or format holders wish to set. The entire list of titles can be found though the link. The promotion ends June 1.

Civilization V is not only free to play this holiday weekend on Steam, but it’s also 75% off the regular price. The free weekend ends on Sunday, at 1.00pm PDT/4.00pm EDT and the sale ends on Monday, May 28 10.00am PDT/1.00pm EDT. Hit up Steam for more information.

Blizzard has published a list of hotfixes applied Diablo III over on Battle.net along with the news that the real-money auction house has been delayed again.

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US rental-by-mail and lately streaming games service GameFly is moving into the digital publishing sphere with Android and iOS games.

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Scourage: Outbreak has been announced for a release this summer on PSN, Xbox Live Arcade and Mac this summer by Tragnarion Studios. The third-person shooter will feature co-op of up to four players, with up to eight players on TDM, DM and Capture the Flag across five maps.

Joystiq has more.

SEGA has released stats regarding the closed beta of Phantasy Star Online 2.

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Ubisoft has released two videos for Babel Rising. One is for Move, and the other Kinect. The title is also slated for iOS and PC. Dates, formats and the trailers are below.

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Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery will come to Japan on June 21 through Superbrothers, 8-4 and Capybara Games for iOS, PC and Mac. The game’s soundtrack will also get a release on the same day, featuring collaborations from Silent Hill composer and Grasshopper producer Akira Yamaoka, PixelJunk 4am’s Baiyon and FFXIII-2′s Misuto Suzuki.

Andriasang has more.

Mobile slice-’em-up Fruit Ninja is turning two, and to celebrate, Halfbrick has planned a significant free content update.

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Okay, sure, the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft is pretty sweet, but the PC version is where the action is. Minecraft lead Jens Bergensten has tweeted an image of what he’s working on at the moment, and it’s pretty neat: an interface for trading items with villagers. It’s a work in progress, of course, so keep an eye on upcoming change logs and updates to see if and when it ever makes it to the full release.

Thanks, IGM.

Chair has announced a free content update for Infinity Blade 2, adding new features, environments, enemies and equipment.

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European Diablo III players have reported a significant number of account hacks.

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An app, which provides the current status of Diablo III’s servers, has been released for Android through Google Play. Developed by Eluamous, creator of a similar app for World of Warcraft, the free app is ad supported and allows you to check the status of servers in Asia, Europe and the US without bothering to log into your PC or Mac. You can download Diablo 3 Server Checker through here. Via Pocket Gamer.

Some indie developers have banded together to introduce a new discount campaign called Because We May which lowers the price of quite a lot of high-profile indie titles.

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Valve has released a single teasing cap for what appears to be the Meet the Pyro video for Team Fortress 2. Clicking on the image on the TF2 website leads to you a page showing all the existing class videos to date. As the pyro is the last one to be spotlighted, he’s greyed out on the page. The message on the tease says “Coming in 2012″. I maintain Meet the Demoman is the peek of the series, quite frankly.

Some unedited footage of prequel adventure Infinity Blade: Dungeons has turned up online.

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GamesIndustry reports three former Disney Interactive staffers and one Borderlands veteran have joined forces to form Fun Machine, Defender of the Universe. No wait, the other thing – a studio focused on games for emerging platforms, specifically smart phones, tablets, and even smart TVs. Fun Machine’s first effort, Awesome Eats, has already totted up 800,000 downloads on iOS and appears to be about adorable vegetables.

Pat and Sam are ladies – at least in Diablo III they are – and in the video posted below, you can watch over 19 minutes of gameplay as the sexy duo brave exploding frogs and dogs before tearing the Skeleton King a new one. Being a Witch Doctor looks rather fun, doesn’t it? Diablo III is out now on Mac and PC.

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