After a brief closed beta, Valve is now letting anyone and everyone with a Windows PC and a Steam account play with its in-house movie making tool, Source Filmmaker, for free.
Source Filmmaker is the same software Valve uses to animate the pre-rendered cinematics for Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead...
The 2D action side-scrolling, tactical combat game with no linear path, A Valley Without Wind, received a major overhaul today with its version 1.2 update, which adds new systems and improvements.
The free update which can be downloaded by anyone...
A haunting and violent tune set to the vengeance of Max Payne, using only music and sounds from Rockstar's 'Max Payne 3.' Produced for Polygon by Reverse Enginears. Reverse Enginears is a digital creative agency that specializes in A/V re-sequencing. AKA "remixes." Their remixes have been featured in advertising campaigns for Disney, Marvel and GM, and have been watched millions of times on...
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Blizzard now allows the trading of gems, dyes, crafting materials, and artisan training materials in Diablo 3's real-money auction house. If you're sitting on piles of Radiant Star amethysts, now's the time to turn those into cold hard cash.
Diablo 3 players cannot, however, sell their in-game...
Alien Breed, the top-down sci-fi shooter from Worms studio Team 17, will release for third generation iOS devices and iPads next month, according to the studio's Facebook page.
The iOS port will include levels from Alien Breed and Alien Breed...
The makers of Ouya, the low-cost video game console based on Google's Android OS and designed by Yves Behar, have already surpassed their $950,000 fundraising goal on Kickstarter. The project, a $99 game console and controller that aims to adapt the mobile app business model...
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Angry Birds Trilogy is coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and 3DS this holiday season, developer Rovio announced today.
The physics-based revenge...
As promised at E3 2012, BioWare and EA are letting Star Wars fans feel the force of their massively multiplayer online role-playing game for free — up to level 15 — starting today.
The...
Łukasz Kaiser, a researcher at LIAFA laboratory at the University of Paris, has created an algorithm that watches games being played, learns the rules, and then plays against human opponents.
With little more information than the size and position of the game board and what a human hand looks like, Kaiser's algorithm learns by watching videos...
Treyarch released a trailer today for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 introducing the series' newest baddie and a sampling of the game's score by composer Trent Reznor.
The trailer offers a peek at antagonist Raul Menendez, whom Treyarch is calling "the most insidious villain in Call of Duty history."...
38 Studios went to Delaware's bankruptcy court this afternoon beginning the arduous process of salvaging what it can in the face of a $270 million debt.
The hearing marked the first opportunity since the studio filed for bankruptcy for creditors to question the company's executives. According to the Boston Globe, creditors and employees who have gone unpaid since May will likely receive nothing through the proceedings as the studio takes the first steps towards liquidation.
Founder Curt Schilling, who was not in attendance at the hearing, expects to lose much of the fortune earned during his baseball career in the collapse. The Providence...
Deus Ex is heading to the big screen.
The rights to a film adaptation of Square Enix's cyberpunk title are now under ownership of CBS films, with Roy Lee and Adrian Askarieh to produce, according to Variety.
CBS Films will work with developer Eidos Montreal on the adaptation based on last year's video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
"As is clear from the wild success of the game, Square Enix and Eidos-Montreal know how to exceed their audience's expectations by engineering incredible worlds," said Terry Press, co-president of CBS Films. "No one knows Human Revolution like the team that...
Trent Reznor composed the theme for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Activision announced today.
The Nine Inch Nails frontman, who most recently worked on the soundtracks for the David Fincher films The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,...
Microsoft is launching a new dashboard for its Xbox console today: Kinect PlayFit. Described as a dashboard that tracks fitness activity on the Xbox, Kinect PlayFit will aggregate data from Dance Central 2, Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012, Kinect...
The developers of the Ouya won't try to compete with the billion dollar corporations battling for console dominance with the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii U. The makers of the protoype console powered by Google's Android OS are looking to play...
Crystal Dynamics and games journalist Geoff Keighley are in partnership to produce behind-the-scenes short documentaries for the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot, titled The Final Hours of TOMB RAIDER.
The Final Hours of TOMB RAIDER, a new installment...
The upcoming installment in the Resident Evil franchise, Resident Evil 6, will have 255 minutes worth of cut scenes, according to a filing by the British Board of Film Classificiation.
In comparison, the BBFC lists Resident Evil 5 as having 65 minutes and 17 seconds worth of scenes, while Resident Evil 4 includes 127 minutes.
Resident Evil 6 arrives on PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on October 2nd, with a PC version to follow, and will allow players to experience the plot through three scenarios.
Capcom last month released 20 minutes of gameplay footage from the Leon campaign, featuring a...
