The $75 million loan guarantee granted to Curt Schilling and the now bankrupt 38 Studios could have an effect on the upcoming Rhode Island elections, according to the Associated Press. Lawmakers are facing heavy questions about the investment.
The loan guarantee was given to 38 Studios by Rhode...
Lawmakers are facing heavy questions on the matter.
Silent Hill: Downpour is launching on November 8th in Japan, but the game will only be available on the PlayStation 3. The official Silent Hill: Downpour twitter account announced the news.
Silent Hill: Downpour was developed by Vatra Games and...
A note from Justin Glow, product manager for Polygon:
When Chris Grant and the Grantettes joined Vox Media to create a website about video games, I was excited. Not only to work with Chris again (we both saluted the Running Man every morning at AOL together), but also to dive deep into a project at Vox with the hindsight of having built The Verge. We’ve learned a lot since then, and I...
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 in-depth, research-based feature stories we've been doing about games for The Verge while preparing for Polygon to launch.
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Current subscribers to Star Wars: The Old Republic will receive a special, voted-on reward when the game goes free-to-play: The Party Jawa.
The Party Jawa, which according to BioWare won the Fan Favorite contest, "celebrates a player's status as a veteran of the galaxy," presumably by partying....
There's no better way to re-experience the worlds of retro Nintendo games than by taking them over — and thankfully one fan is working to make that a reality. The fan made creation is a custom version of Risk, where the real-world countries have...
An HTML5 port of MagicalTimeBean's Escape Goat is now available to play in web browsers. A full version of the game is available through September 9th, and a demo version of the game will remain after.
Escape Goat is already available on the PC and Xbox Live Indie Games, but...
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Sony is working closely with Bethesda to resolve The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim's DLC problems on the PlayStation 3, reports Kotaku. The site spoke...
Super Hexagon is the latest game from Terry Cavanagh, creator of the sadistic VVVVVV and somewhat friendlier CatLife: ChatChat. As a triangle cast into an unforgiving world, you must defend against...
The extra content made available in the PC version of Mutant Mudds, Renegade Kid's 12-bit action platformer, will release for the 3DS version of the game as a free update, Jools Watsham announced on his blog.
Watsham also revealed that Renegade Kid is now an authorized Wii U developer. The profits made from Steam sales have "the potential of...
Capybara's rainbow-spewing arcade puzzler, Critter Crunch, will release for Steam on September 11th. It will be the game's third release.
Critter Crunch first launched as an iOS title back into 2008, before again releasing for the PlayStation Network in 2009. Players control a small creature...
Fantastic Arcade will host the first annual Gamemaking Frenzy on September 14th. This year's theme centers on Pendleton Ward's Adventure Time.
The Adventure Time Gamemaking Frenzy will take place in Austin, Texas, but participants from around the world are encouraged to sign up. Like other game jams, developers come together for a 48-hour game-building expo to trade ideas and compare prototypes; standout titles are presented during the festivities. Gamemaking Frenzy is an independent gaming event sponsored by Fantastic Fest, a genre film fest in Texas, and hosted by Juegos Rancheros.
Anyone interested in participating can sign up at the...
McPixel, the point-and-click adventure game with a warped sense of humor, is available for the payment of your choice on PC, Mac, and Linux this weekend.
The download comes in torrent form, and its developer, Sos Sosowski, teamed up with The Pirate Bay to highlight his game on the file-sharing site, which has temporarily been rebranded "The Promo Bay."
In a message on The Pirate Bay, Sos says, "I know that not everyone can afford entertainment. But everyone needs it." Head to the McPixel website to throw him some money and get in on the nonsensical, referential fun, which usually costs...
A second public beta test for the Just Cause 2 multiplayer mod, "JC2-MP," will open on Saturday at 4 a.m. EDT. The beta will last for 48 hours.
In addition to several bug fixes, including an adjusted health bar, the 0.0.7 update will run the...
Love, the cooperative online game from indie developer Eskil Steenberg, is now available as a free download. The game can be picked up at Steenberg's site, Quel Solaar.
Love is a first-person adventure game that allows players to manipulate and...
PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale developer SuperBot Entertainment has been silent in regards to bringing Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee's titular protagonist on board for the fighter, CVG reports.
Developer Oddworld Inhabitants says "certain sectors"...
PAX's Indie Megabooth is the product of cooperation.
At PAX Prime last week, a group of independent developers pooled their resources to purchase acreage on the show's main floor and subdivided it into mini-booths, where the developers were on...
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, 343 Industries' web series seeking to humanize the war games of the Halo franchise, addresses its young soldiers' loss of innocence in a new vignette released today.
In the video below, two trainees neck-deep in a game of Capture the Flag reminisce about their childhoods – a time where Capture the Flag had less agonizing consequences. As children, the kind of terror that comes with the sound of snapping twigs and faint breathing seems not as gripping when, dressed in armor, you enter the battlefield with your life at stake.
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn will...
