Category Archives: Apple
Fri, May 17, 2013 | 20:21 BST
Green Man Gaming adds Telltale Games to its library, some are on sale
Green Man Gaming has added Telltale Games titles to its library for PC and Mac. Most are on sale at present, so hit up the link to purchase games such as Back to the Future, Hector: Badge of Carnage, Jurassic Park: The Game, Poker Night 2, Puzzle Agent, Sam & Max, Tales of Monkey Island, and The Walking Dead.
Fri, May 17, 2013 | 20:13 BST
Men’s Room Mayhem out next week on Vita, mobile devices
Men’s Room Mayhem, announced earlier this month for Vita, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android devices, will release next week on May 21 through the PS Store in the US and on May 22 in Europe. It will be made available worldwide on the App Store, Google Play Store and the Amazon Appstore May 23. On Vita, it will run you £1.99/€2.49/$1.99 and on mobile devices for £0.69/€0.89/$0.99. New screens are below.
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Posted in: Action, Android, Arcade, PSN, PlayStation Store, Screens, Vita, iOS
Tags: Men’s Room Mayhem, Sawfly Studios
Fri, May 17, 2013 | 10:09 BST
Jagged Alliance: Flashback gets frozen diorama scene, new screens
Jagged Alliance: Flashback developer Full Control has six days of Kickstarter funding left, and has released a neat Unity-powered diorama, letting you scroll around a scene from the turn-based game’s actual gameplay.
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Posted in: Mac, PC, Strategy
Tags: Full Control, Jagged Alliance: Flashback, Kickstarter
Fri, May 17, 2013 | 09:40 BST
Apple passes 50 billion App Store downloads since 2008
Apple is celebrating over 50 billion App Store downloads worldwide since the store launched in 2008.
Fri, May 17, 2013 | 06:32 BST
Angry Birds Seasons Abra-Ca-Bacon update adds portals
Rovio’s latest free addition to Angry Birds Seasons looks like a lot of fun for fans of long-fall boots, if you know what I mean.
Fri, May 17, 2013 | 02:26 BST
Skyward Collapse to release next week
Skyward Collapse, in which you play a hassled deity trying to keep your people from fighting to the death over petty religious squabbles, arrives next week.
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Posted in: Mac, PC, Simulation, Strategy, indie
Tags: Arcen Games, Skyward Collapse
Fri, May 17, 2013 | 03:20 BST
Dota 2: The International prize pool now over $2 million
Sales of Valve’s Dota 2 Compendium have already pushed the total prize pool for the third annual world championships event past $2 million.
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Posted in: MOBA, Mac, PC, Valve, eSports
Tags: DOTA 2, The International, The International 2013
Fri, May 17, 2013 | 00:53 BST
Game Dev Tycoon among batch of six new Greenlight titles
Six more games have been approved by Valve’s esoteric Greenlight service for eventual release through the premiere PC distribution platform.
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Posted in: Linux, Mac, PC, Steam, indie
Tags: Game Dev Tycoon, Steam Greenlight
Thu, May 16, 2013 | 05:26 BST
World War Z tie-in headed to mobile
Horn and The Dark Meadow developer Phosphor Games will bring its impressive mobile experience to bear on an adaptation of World War Z.
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Posted in: Android, Mobile, Shooter, iPad, iPhone
Tags: phosphor games, World War Z
Thu, May 16, 2013 | 01:09 BST
Diablo 3 anniversary celebrated with magic find, XP boosts
Log in for a few hours with Diablo 3 this week and you’ll be rewarded with increased XP gain and magic find, in celebration of the RPG’s first birthday.
Thu, May 16, 2013 | 00:42 BST
Google Play officially launches game services for Android and iOS
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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Posted in: Android, Mobile, iOS
Tags: Google Play
Wed, May 15, 2013 | 09:48 BST
Steam update adds player levels based on community badges
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.
Tue, May 14, 2013 | 23:18 BST
Rovio launches new third-party mobile publishing label
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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Posted in: Android, Mobile, Rovio, iPad, iPhone
Tags: 5 Ants, Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage, Nitrome, Rovio Stars, Tiny Thief
Tue, May 14, 2013 | 15:02 BST
Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery hits PS Vita, iOS this week
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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Posted in: App Store, Apple, PSN, PlayStation Store, Sony, Vita, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod
Tags: Jacob Jones & the Bigfoot Mystery, Lucid Games
Tue, May 14, 2013 | 08:28 BST
Puzzle & Dragons Z: GungHo’s 3DS port heading west, CEO confirms
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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Posted in: 3DS, 3DS XL, App Store, Apple, Nintendo, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod
Tags: GungHo Entertainment, Kazuki Morishita, Puzzle & Dragons, Puzzle & Dragons Z
Tue, May 14, 2013 | 07:08 BST
Show Me The Games sale heavily discounts indies
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.
Tue, May 14, 2013 | 06:46 BST
Contraption Maker to follow in The Incredible Machine’s footsteps
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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Posted in: Mac, PC, Puzzler, Sandbox, indie
Tags: Contraption Maker, The Incredible Machine
Tue, May 14, 2013 | 01:49 BST
Son of Nor supports mind-controlled power use
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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Posted in: Action, Linux, Mac, PC
Tags: Emotive EPOC, Son of Nor, StillAlive Studios
Mon, May 13, 2013 | 23:15 BST
Shadowrun Returns: capturing the tabletop vibe
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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Posted in: Mac, PC
Tags: Harebrained Schemes, Jordan Weisman, Shadowrun Returns
Mon, May 13, 2013 | 01:05 BST
GOG adds ten Mac games including Syndicate Wars
Good news for the OS-X contingent today with another round of thriftily-priced classic games added to GOG’s Mac collection.
New Xbox dashboard to hit public beta in June or July to prep for next console – report