NEWS

Cliff Bleszinski and the team behind Boss Key Productions will be attending PAX East to discuss Project BlueStreak, among other things.

Story of Seasons is coming to North America very soon. As Gematsu reports, XSEED announced a final release date of March 31 for the farming and life simulator for the 3DS. Pre-orders of the game at participating retailers will be packaged with an Angora rabbit pocket plushie as well. Story of Seasons is a port of Tsunagaru Shin Tenchi, the latest installment ...

For years I’ve been trying to figure out where the term DLC popped up within the gaming industry. It’s certainly not a term I’ve grown up with gaming through the 90’s. Initially, I’ve heard people using the term, not even knowing what it represented. Then, learning that it stands for Downloadable Content, I’ve kept wondering “how is it different than ...

Kalypso Media, the publisher behind the popular Tropico series, has announced the latest add-on for Tropico 5. Gone Green will ask players to promote the image of a better Tropico. This is all done to protect the secret “retirement fund” that El President is funding from selling crude oil to competing superpowers. The Gone Green add-on includes: New standalone scenario: “Catch the ...

The blue speedster hedgehog passed his prime a long time ago, but Sonic the Hedgehog has hit a new low as sales numbers for Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric and Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal have failed to even sell 500k units between them. Eurogamer reported that the two games only hit 490,000 copies sold since their releases back in November of ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Kendra Albert, a law school student, have requested a new exemption to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). It would allow fans of abandoned games to revive them without exposing themselves to legal risks. Section 1201 of the DMCA is an anti-circumvention provision that makes it illegal to remove Digital Rights Management (DRM) and “other technical protection measures.” ...

Roll7, the developer behind one of the best indie titles in 2014, has revealed a trailer for the game’s sequel. OlliOlli 2 will feature many of the same mechanics as the original game in the series, however Roll7 will be refining many of those mechanics in this title. The biggest change is the shift away from pixelart, however fans of the original ...

A while back, at Sony’s E3 conference in 2014, a mention of the classic duo of Ratchet and Clank being revived for the PlayStation 4 was made when footage of their upcoming movie was shown.  However, nothing was specific and there was only radio silence for the past few months on the possible reboot. Today, however, Insomniac Games has announced their intention ...

Homeworld is one of the classics of the real-time strategy genre, so it was expected that many were excited by the recent announcement of the remastered edition by Gearbox Software at PAX South. Today, the development team released the first story trailer for Homeworld Remastered that provided a refresher of the basic premise of the two games and additionally highlighting the improvements that ...

The second expansion for Housemarque’s shoot-em-up Resogun will be released next week. Over on the PlayStation Blog, Ian Pickles from XPEC Studio Europe gave an in-depth explanation of what will be coming in the update. In addition to the soon-to-be-released Defenders, Housemarque’s last content update for the game, Resogun Challengers, is being made available to all players today for no ...