Dust: An Elysian Tail is a time capsule of game design past.
HD-resolution graphics aside, Dust feels like a late '90s spiritual successor to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Like that classic, it focuses on character advancement and customization within the trappings of a 2D,...
Dust borrows from classics like Metroid and Castlevania to create something all its own.
From the earliest text-based adventures to the latest modern shooters, Reverse Enginears has created a stunning musical composition featuring only sounds and music from PC games.
Reverse Enginears is a digital creative agency that specializes in...
Outland and Bloodrayne: Betrayal will become free downloadable titles for PlayStation Plus members beginning August 14th, Sony announced today on the official U.S. PlayStation blog.
Outland is a 2D sidescrolling platformer infused with puzzle elements from developer Housemarque, of Super Stardust HD fame. Bloodrayne: Betrayal is also a 2D sidescrolling platformer, but with a focus on hacking...
Each week the iOS Gaming Watch List will inform you of some noteworthy releases coming to the App Store. Major releases tend to hit on Thursdays, so we'll be coming at you every Wednesday with the games to look out for, as well as some of the bigger content updates on the way. While this won't be a comprehensive list of games releasing for a given week, it does offer a quick selection of games and upates that show promise or look interesting for one reason or another. Worth noting that we have not played many of these games, so you shouldn't take these as short reviews. Think of this more like a helpful guide of games to investigate as they launch on Thursday.
Unfortunately, since these are pre-release games, App Store links are not available, but if you search for the title within the App Store tomorrow, it should pop up.
Big iOS games
NetherRealm Studios' fighting game set in the DC universe has a new addition: Catwoman. The cat burglar, whip enthusiast, and one-time foe of Batman has been confirmed as a playable character in Injustice: Gods Among Us at Gamescom.
Catwoman's moves appear to focus mainly on claw-based,...
Often times, stories come and go on game sites without a sense of permanence or a proper archive. Especially so when you're crashing on another site's couch while building your own. This is our attempt to change that -- a collection of all the...
Hotline Miami, the top-down action game from indie developer Dennaton Games, will launch on PC on Steam, Get Games, and "other fine digital distribution platforms" later this year, publisher Devolver Digital announced today.
A representative for the publisher added, "Plans for...
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The world of Dishonored is entirely and completely new. Nobody — not even the folks at Arkane who are developing the game — has fully explored...
It shouldn't come as a surprise to see Nintendo launch a new 3DS revision less than 18 months after the original console — after all, the company waited almost exactly the same length of time...
World of Tanks Generals, a free-to-play collectible card game from the makers of World of Tanks, is headed to web browsers, according to developer Wargaming.net.
"Across several single and multiplayer gameplay modes, commanders can take part in battles taken from historical events, fight for dominance on a global map and destroy the...
PlayStation Vita brain-training game Smart As will feature British actor John Cleese as the game's narrator, developer XDev Studio announced today on the PlayStation Blog.
"The decision to approach John to work on the game came about a couple of months ago," wrote producer Ian Pickles. "We were...
The latest update for massively multiplayer online game TERA will introduce player-versus-player battlegrounds mode on August 22nd, publisher En Masse Entertainment announced today.
The "Argon Queen" update will be the largest to date. Players can enter in real-time battles against each other in 15-on-15 matches, shown in the trailer below, that will be playable across servers. Battlefield navigation will not only include pursuing other players, but taking down massive monsters and collecting unique in-game loot as well.
The update will also add a new dungeon leading into a battle with the titular Argon Queen, a 20-person raid experience,...
Love it or hate it, day-one downloadable content makes sense for both game developers and consumers, according to Bioware Edmonton director of online development Fernando Melo.
For Bioware, which has included day-one downloadable content for all its games from Dragon Age: Origins to Mass Effect 3, a lot of it boils down to simple math: development budgets for post-launch downloadable content incorporate attach rates for that content against the total sales of the game. That attach rate decreases steadily as weeks after launch pass — according to Melo, putting the content in front of the...
Sleeping Dogs, the open-world crime thriller from United Front Games and Square Enix London Studios, will be supplemented with six months of additional content following its launch this week, publisher Square Enix announced today.
"Sleeping Dogs...
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD will launch on the PlayStation Network on August 28th, developer Robomodo announced today.
The PC version of the game, which was announced as a summer release, still has no release date, although Activision promised it...
Spec Ops: The Line will likely not be getting a sequel, design lead Jorg Friedrich said in a panel at GDC Europe.
Developer Yager is working on a larger unannounced game, with Friedrich insinuating the numbers for Spec Ops were not good enough to...
Borderlands 2's villain, Handsome Jack, shows off the army of robots at his disposal and sneers, "Come and get me," in a trailer released today by 2K Games and Gearbox Software.
Jack, having taken over the "armpit of a planet" that is Pandora,...
Dust: An Elysian Tail, a hand-animated action role-playing game coming to Xbox Live Arcade this week, has received a launch trailer showcasing its story and gameplay.
The fifth and final entry in Microsoft's Summer of Arcade promotion, Dust first came to popular attention in 2009 after winning Microsoft's Dream.Build.Play Challenge, which invites developers to submit their games to compete for prizes and the possibility of a game publishing contract.
Dust: An Elysian Tail is set for release this Wednesday August 15th. You can check out the trailer and its Dark Knight-esque soundtrack below.
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