Category Archives: Apple

Google has come clean about the new game services package added to the Google Play app store suite earlier this week.

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Valve has rolled out a new update on Steam which assigned gamers a personal level based on their community achievements, and linked to the store’s badge system.

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Rovio Stars is a new publishing initiative from the makers of Angry Birds to highlight mobile development talent. The first game from the program is Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage – check out a trailer through the break.

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Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery developer Lucid Games is gearing up to launch its quirky episodic puzzle game on iOS and PS Vita this week. If Lucid sounds familiar, it’s the studio currently linked to Project Gotham Racing 5 development rumours.

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Puzzle & Dragons Z developer GungHo Entertainment has confirmed that the 3DS port of its monstrously successful iOS game is heading West.

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Developer direct digital distribution hub Show Me The Games is throwing a whopping sale for the next few days, with discounts of 35% to 75% on 32 indie titles. There are some well known names on the list – And Yet It Moves, Gratuitous Space Battles, Defcon and Voxeltron, for example – as well as a bunch of lesser-known efforts you might not have heard of. A wide variety of genres are represented, and many titles are available on Linux and Mac as well as PC.

Thanks, Joystiq.

Or possibly tyre treads; but you get the idea. Contraption Makers is a spiritual successor to The Incredible Machine from the creators of the original Sierra franchise.

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That game where you can rearrange the environment using Jedi-like powers? You’ll be able to play it with your mind. Prepare to have your mind blown when you see it in action through the break.

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Shadowrun Returns takes the turn-based RPG template back to its hardcore roots. VG247′s Dave Cook speaks with Harebrained Schemes founder Jordan Weisman to learn more.

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Good news for the OS-X contingent today with another round of thriftily-priced classic games added to GOG’s Mac collection.

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Blizzard has identified 415 Diablo 3 players who took advantage of last week’s gold multiplying exploit, and will be diverting their profits directly to a good cause.

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A entry for Steam Trading Cards has turned up in the Steam database, leading many to scratch their heads as to what the entry entails.As PCgamesN notes, it could mean a variety of things such as support for trading card games, Valve could be working on its own trading card game, or it could be the start of some other form of community trading of CD-keys or the like. Valve hasn’t announced anything of the sort, yet, so we’ll just have to keep guessing until something is announced.

GoG is hosting a Adventurers Assemble sale which includes 12 games for $53.88, or 60% off. Of course, the less games you check off in the pack, the less it will run you, but there’s some really nice titles in there like: To the Moon, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Resonance, The Blackwell Bundle, Primorida, Gemini Rue, and more. Head on through the link to start buying. Thanks, PC Gamer.

With 40 hours left on the clock, DarkSeas Games’ Road Redemption Kickstarter has been funded. The initial funding goal was $160,000, and 3,929 backers funded it with $163,315 in pledges. You can find out more on the game which is currently slated for a PC, Mac and Linux in July, and Wii U some time this year, through the link.

Steam Greenlight games have been voted on by “roughly” 2 million participants since it launched in August 2012, according to a recent developer group chat on Greenlight.

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One of the new additions coming to Civilization 5 in its second expansion is tourism. This video explains the new system and how it fits in with the established culture mechanics.

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The third episode of Phoenix Online’s Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller drops on May 16 for iPad, Mac and PC. Called The Oracle, this instalment has players taking control of both the titular protagonist and the serial killer she’s been stalking. Check out a new trailer and some screens through the break, and pick up the first two episodes, The Hangman and The Wise Monkey; the conclusion is expected in late northern summer.

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Blizzard has said it is still “auditing transactions that were performed on the both the gold and real-money Auction House,” in Diablo 3 following the gold exploit in patch 1.0.8 discovered earlier this week.

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Hit mobile puzzle title The Room has now sold over 2 million copies since its launch in September of last year, it has been revealed.

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Rovio has released a free update for Angry Brids spin-off Bad Piggies, with 15 new levels. The update also adds suction cup tyres, boxing gloves, and a new feature called Everplay, which allows you to record and share your best (or worst) solutions. Get a taster through the break.

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