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mac In a blog post, Guild Wars 2 systems designer Jonathan Sharp has written at length about the future of the game's structured player versus player. In short, the team at ArenaNet has a lot in mind -- particularly when it comes... | 10-09-2012 | ||
mac In retrospect, Rovio Entertainment collaborating with Lucasfilm seems spot on. Not so much thematically, but in terms of how both Star Wars and Angry Birds have made obscene amounts of money through merchandising. Now, t... | 10-08-2012 | ||
mac Now through Saturday, October 6 at 5:00pm GMT, minimalistic platformer Thomas Was Alone can be bought directly from its developer Mike Bithell for half price. $4.99 gets you DRM-free copies of both the Mac and PC versions of ... | 10-05-2012 | ||
mac I may be a bit short, definitely hairy, and somewhat stocky, but I'm also quite claustrophobic. I'm like a dwarf paradox. I do love digging out caves and carving out dungeons and fortresses, though, and I've been doing plenty... | 10-04-2012 | ||
mac A developer talking passionately about its game, a journalist receiving answers to questions without fail, and nothing in between keeping either side from doing what they set out to do. This is how it should be, but it rar... | 10-03-2012 | ||
mac The Walking Dead seems to have been one of the surprises of the year; after the faithful yet uninspired Back to the Future series and the rather bad Jurrassic Park game, it was a pleasant surprise to see gamers respond favor... | 10-02-2012 | ||
mac Those who pre-order or pre-purchase Football Manager 2013 ahead of its November 2, 2012 release will get early access to this latest installment, Sports Interactive has announced. The offer is good for retail and digital vers... | 09-28-2012 | ||
mac Has it really been a year since The Binding of Isaac released? Time sure does fly when you're playing and replaying such a deceptively large game. To celebrate the one-year anniversary, Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl are d... | 09-28-2012 | ||
mac Beneath a Steel Sky 2 did not quite reach the funding requirements set forth in Broken Sword's Kickstarter, but Revolution has revealed that fan support was so enthusiastic, it's prepared to risk the game anyway. Beneath... | 09-24-2012 | ||
mac The HMS Tribble was on fire. Every single room from the engine room to my recently purchased drone control room was being consumed one tiny square at a time. The valiant Captain Jack Jack was frantically attempting to regain ... | 09-20-2012 | ||
mac Somewhere between checkers and chess, the contemporary turn-based strategy game resides. Advance Wars, X-Com, Heroes of Might & Magic, and Fire Emblem are known by many, loved by some, and mastered by very few. Their i... | 09-19-2012 | ||
mac Torchlight II was, unfortunately, subject to a number of delays. Originally set for release back in 2011, it's only now become available for purchase. I'm happy to say the wait was worth it. It's a bit rough around the edges,... | 09-18-2012 | ||
mac We haven't heard much about Kickstarter success Banner Saga over the past couple months, but developer Stoic has just come out with some big announcements. While Banner Saga Chapter 1 (a full game, not an episode) will arrive... | 09-14-2012 | ||
mac It seems like these days everybody and their gran thinks they are photographers, and where once the only people with cameras on them at all times were press photographers, now we all have them in our pockets. It was only a ma... | 09-11-2012 | ||
mac Excuse the weird phrasing there, but as Frictional Games writes in its latest report on Amnesia: The Dark Descent, the number of units sold for a digitally distributed game is "actually really hard to pin down." Excluding the... | 09-10-2012 | ||
mac Capybara Games' rainbow barf-filled puzzle title Critter Crunch is set to arrive on Steam next week. When it drops this Tuesday, September 11, you'll be able to pick it up for PC and Mac for a cool $6.99. There's support for ... | 09-07-2012 | ||
mac Frozenbyte has released Trine 2: Goblin Menace on Steam (PC and Mac) and it's looking promising. This expansion includes a story that spans six levels, a new soundtrack, better graphics, and six additional abilities that can ... | 09-06-2012 | ||
mac Consider this a friendly reminder to go double check your Battle.net account to be sure you're opted in for the StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm multiplayer beta. While currently limited to pro gamers, shoutcasters, press, an... | 09-05-2012 | ||
mac It's not every day you see a DS title get new PC and Mac versions years after the fact, but that's exactly what's happening with Renegade Kid's first-person horror game Dementium II. Memetic Games is using the Unity engine, s... | 09-04-2012 | ||
mac Rovio has announced an actual sequel -- not a spin-off -- to its ludicrously popular Angry Birds series. Bad Piggies reverses the roles and puts players on the side of the green pigs that have served as cannon fodder across ... | 09-04-2012 | ||
mac I make no secret of my love for the guys at Vlambeer. Their approach to design, making games that are instantly understandable yet endlessly challenging, hits at the very core of what I think makes for timeless entertainment.... | 09-03-2012 | ||
mac Undoubtedly, the best part of PAX is the opportunity to recharge your games blogger batteries, so to speak. After a certain amount of time observing the constant ebb and flow of anticipation and disappointment during the res... | 09-02-2012 | ||
mac Closure was well received on PlayStation 3, and now the puzzle-platforming game is coming to Steam for PC and Mac at a slightly lower price point of $10. Hell yeah? I vaguely remember playing the early, now-proof-of-concept ... | 08-27-2012 | ||
mac Tengami is one of those games that relies heavily on its art style in capturing players' interest initially and is perhaps better seen than described. Thankfully, a trailer for this adventure game has just been released, so ... | 08-24-2012 | ||
mac Indie designer Edmund McMillen wasn't kidding when he said The Basement Collection would be releasing in late August. Described as "9 years of indie video game goodness with all the bells an whistles I could drum up along the... | 08-22-2012 | ||
mac Hooray! The Kickstarter for Mercenary Kings, the 2D action game from Tribute Games (Wizorb) with art from Paul Robertson, has been funded. I can't be the only one who is terrible about keeping up with campaigns after the init... | 08-21-2012 | ||
mac Having gotten all worked up over the new Paragon System for Diablo III yesterday, I'm pleasantly surprised to see that patch 1.0.4, which includes the new late-game leveling system, is going to roll out today. Currently, the ... | 08-21-2012 | ||
mac Physics-based puzzler The Splatters was enjoyable on Xbox Live Arcade, and it sounds as if SpikySnail Games is going about making additional versions the right way. The game is headed to Windows and Mac (Steam), in addition t... | 08-20-2012 | ||
mac Cities in Motion 2 is city building game where the only thing you're building is the transit system, like roads, trains, buses, and so on. Buildings get placed automatically, players just have to focus on making sure the cit... | 08-19-2012 | ||
mac Have you seen this yet? It's a teaser trailer for a first-person horror game called Routine in development for PC and Mac at Lunar Software. I'm glad to see it's been gaining traction this week, because conceptually, the gam... | 08-17-2012 | ||
mac Aperture Science's "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has just undergone a major expansion. An update for Portal 2 released today which allows users to now create puzzles requiring cooperative play to add to the more than 17... | 08-16-2012 | ||
mac SimCity looks absolutely beautiful so far and I'm jealous of Dale North for getting to play a crap ton of it. I used to be an avid fan of SimCity all the way from the original up to 4 (I probably spent a lifetime w... | 08-14-2012 | ||
mac This year was my first at E3 and one of the things that I had never heard about was the inclusion of the Indiecade. Indiecade is a separate section of E3 that focuses entirely on the best indie games of the past year a... | 08-13-2012 | ||
mac After teasing us for the last several days, Valve has revealed the latest addition to Team Fortress 2, a co-operative game called Mann vs. Machine. Scheduled to go live this Wednesday, August 15, the new mode will pit six pl... | 08-13-2012 | ||
mac It was only last February that Two Tribes announced their pursuit of Toki Tori 2 on Wii U, and in the six months since, they've not only succeeded, they've also developed a feature exclusive to Nintendo's next console. The T... | 08-09-2012 | ||
mac With just six days left for funding, Shadowrun Online has only made a little over half of its goal of $500,000. Don't confuse this project with the first Shadowrun Kickstarter, which more than quadrupled its goal. This one is... | 08-07-2012 | ||
mac Here's a nice look at all eight of the new Giants characters in Skylanders Giants. This may be old news to hardcore fans frantically looking for any bits of news on toys, but for everyone else you can see just how cool they ... | 08-05-2012 | ||
mac Pig masks. Are they ever not terrifying? This trailer for Hotline Miami, a mix of live action and footage taken from the top-down action game -- or, in Devolver Digital's words, the "top-down f*ck-'em-up" -- seems like a nat... | 08-03-2012 | ||
mac Thank your lucky stars! There's a new content for Angry Birds Space. Update 1.2.2 packs a hefty bag of goodies, adding 20 levels, a brand new orange bird, and a pig boss so big he has his own gravitational pull. As you can se... | 07-28-2012 | ||
mac Have you been keeping up with Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition? The official website for the game has worth-seeing new information, although some of you will only need a release date: for Windows, it's September 18. Available ... | 07-27-2012 | ||
mac Knytt and Knytt Stories were both wonderful freeware platformers, especially when it came to the user-made levels for the latter. Developer Nifflas, Green Hill Studios, and Ripstone Publishing have announced a new game, Knytt... | 07-27-2012 | ||
mac Damn you, Zack Gage! The hit iOS crossword search-like puzzle game SpellTower is now out for Mac. Creator Zach Gage sent me a copy today, completely blowing my productivity. If you've somehow missed this form of digital... | 07-25-2012 | ||
mac [This post will detail content that takes place before level 85. Impressions for post 85 content, such as heroics, raids, and the 85-90 zones will come at a later date.]World of Warcraft is going on its fourth expansion. I kn... | 07-25-2012 | ||
mac That's right, Serious Sam 3: BFE is finally making its way to Xbox Live Arcade, and it's launching in less than a week, no less. The single-player and co-op parts will be available for 1200 Microsoft Points, while the multip... | 07-24-2012 | ||
mac Celebrated? Well, at least by me. I gave it one of our highest rated reviews of the year and for good reason: IT'S AWESOME! And now that it's on Steam for $7.99. You "Ugh, I only buy Steam games"-people have no excuse not to ... | 07-22-2012 | ||
mac The Sims are joining the freak show this fall, and today EA is serving us up a few fresh snaps. With these screen shots comes a closer look at two of the new types of Sims added with the Supernatural expansion: the fairy and ... | 07-19-2012 | ||
mac I can't believe how frequently Ronimo Games has been adding content to the PC version of their 2D platforming MOBA, Awesomenauts, but I'm pretty happy about it. Today they've announced the impending arrival of yet another pl... | 07-16-2012 | ||
mac Little Inferno, as you might recall, is a new game in development from some of the folks behind World of Goo and Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure. You ought to watch the embedded video; it starts out innocently enou... | 07-11-2012 | ||
mac Part of the reason why I enjoy indie gaming so much is because of the kinds of subjects that their stories can explore, as well as the worlds that they can create. Which is why the familiar, yet ominous w... | 07-06-2012 | ||
mac Finally, a game that combines zombies and drinking responsibly. I was starting to get worried. Spain-based studio Moonbite has just announced Zombeer, coming to Mac and PC. In this game, lead character K will have to steadil... | 07-05-2012 | ||
mac The Journey Down was a classic-style, 2D pixel art adventure game which you can still play for free. Now it's a slightly larger, fully voiced, gorgeous adventure game that mixes 3D animated models with painted backgrounds. Th... | 07-04-2012 | ||
mac At the heart of episodic Walking Dead video game lies a unique experience tailored to the many ambiguous moral choices that can be made by the player throughout the progression of the story. In this new trailer (beware the s... | 07-02-2012 | ||
mac Oh lucky me, and here I was just running out of things to spend money on in The Sims 3. Welcome to The Lucky Palms, a new playable town available in the The Sims 3 Store. This desert community boasts a bistro, community pool,... | 06-28-2012 | ||
mac Super Mario Bros. Crossover is an amazing game that allows you to play through the original Super Mario Bros. with one of several NES heroes, such as Mega Man, Simon Belmont, Samus, Ryu Hayabusa, and others. As fun as it is,... | 06-23-2012 | ||
mac I love playing Mac games. My favorite one is called, "Trying To Find Games For My Mac". Capitalizing on this unquenched thirst is Sega and Feral Interactive, announcing that Sonic will make his Mac debut soon with not one but... | 06-20-2012 | ||
mac I love playing Mac games. My favorite one is called, "Trying To Find Games For My Mac". Capitalizing on this unquenched thirst is Sega and Feral Interactive, announcing that Sonic will make his Mac debut soon with not one but... | 06-20-2012 | ||
mac Indie game designers often like to depict themselves as rebels, talking out against the modern weapon war and race for realistic graphics being put on by the major game publishers of the world. From where I sit, it seems l... | 06-19-2012 | ||
mac In an effort to address some recent questions regarding the Vita port of the game, the community managers at the Dungeon Defenders team have erected a forum post to help shed some light on important DD happenings. A number of... | 06-15-2012 | ||
mac Space seems like an unfriendly place. Beyond the regular hazards such as the lack of oxygen, lots of floating junk, and apocalypse-causing chunks of rock and ice, there's also all the people fighting. Killing people... | 06-14-2012 | ||
mac An amalgamation of dungeon crawlers and strategy titles, Dungeonland is definitely not the type of game you see often. On one end, it's a hack-and-slash, class-based dungeon crawler, almost reminiscent of Diablo. From the oth... | 06-08-2012 |
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