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Veterans of the well-known British developer Rare have created their own studio. Playtonic Games was founded by six artists, programmers and designers from the studio that created games, like Banjo-Kazooie and GoldenEye 007. GamesIndustry.biz has confirmed that the six founding members are Gavin Price, Steven Hurst, Chris Sutherland, Jens Restemeier, Steve Mayles and Mark Stevenson. The new studio’s first title will be ...

Blizzard has announced the introduction of The Lost Vikings, a new character for Heroes of the Storm. Directly from the 1992 platformer title with the same name, the trio (Olaf, Baleog and Erik) is now playable as a hero in Blizzard’s MOBA. Considered to be one of the hardest characters to master, The Lost Vikings can be controlled separately. Each viking ...

World of Tanks developer, Wargaming, will be the title sponsor for the reunion of Band of Brothers' actors to commemorate World War II.

Dana Jan, director of Ready at Dawn’s newest title The Order: 1886, recently sat down with Blogocio to give some insight into the upcoming action shooter game. Jan took the opportunity to dispel any rumors that the game is only five hours long. He stressed that the length of the game would depend on the player’s ability and familiarity with ...

A new Kickstarter campaign has been announced for Strength of the Sword Ultimate. This campaign intends to bring Ivent Games’ first project, Strength of the Sword 3, to Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. This two-person studio won’t just be bringing the game over, they’ll be improving upon it. This new edition of Strength of the Sword 3 will include three ...

A special Dying Light video shows off how to play as the Night Hunter, as well as reveal a redeemable code for a powerful in-game weapon.

A new trailer for Nebulous shows off the mechanics that will allow players to deliver commander Dash Johnston to his destination. This physics-based puzzle title will have players use a variety of puzzle pieces, as well as gravity and momentum to guide the trapped astronaut to the next wormhole. Players will have to deal with unreliable gravity, trampolines, conveyor belts and “other fun inconveniences.” ...

Atari has announced the development and upcoming release of Asteroids: Outpost. Yes, this is being labeled as a reboot of the classic 1979 arcade space shooter by Atari, but it’s looking almost nothing like the original. Instead of updating the classic game mode, this revival will be a sandbox style, open world, survival game. Players are cast as a miner in outer space ...

Paradox interactive has revealed, through their official website, the release date for their newest city simulator title called Cities Skylines. The game is the result of a co-operation between Paradox and Colossal Order, the Finnish developer responsible for the Cities in Motion series. A trailer for Cities Skylines has been released to the general public alongside a Pre-Order campaign which ...

Not much is yet known about Ninja Theory’s latest project Hellblade. Most information comes from a dev diary released last month covering environments, enemy design, and combat. Even after the recent staff departures at Ninja Theory, however, it can be said that work on Hellblade is still moving steadily along. A closer look at the game was released today through an ...