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Betrayer coming from FEAR, No One Lives Forever devs
Blackpowder Games, composed of former Monolith developers who worked on No One Lives Forever and the original FEAR, has announced a new "eerie and atmospheric first-person action adventure game," Betrayer. The game takes place in 1604, where the player has arrived in the New World, hoping to ...
Rainbow Skies assaulting PS3 and Vita in 2014, Rainbow Moon to Vita this year
Good news for fans of grind-tastic dungeon crawler / strategy RPG hybrids: Rainbow Skies is headed to the PlayStation 3 and Vita in 2014. A sequel of sorts to last year's Rainbow Moon, Rainbow Skies promises "countless hours" of content and features new combination attacks and a monster taming ...
Beat Hazard Ultra hauled in over $2.2 million since launch
Beat Hazard Ultra, Cold Beam Games' arcade-style twin stick shooter, has grossed over $2.2 million since it first launched on Steam in June 2011. Steve Hunt, the lone developer of the game, also noted in a recent blog post that the game's 3,000 percent profit came from over 700,000 copies being ...
EB Games, JB Hi-Fi handing out shiny Pokemon down under
Dilemma: You want free shiny Pokemon (and who doesn't, let's be honest), but having your home in Australia makes a trip to one of the giveaways at Gamestop in the US a little problematic. Solution: Just head over to your local EB Games instead, as they'll be offering the very same virtual gifts. ...
Report: Sega bidding on Atlus parent company
Sega is among about 20 companies bidding on Index, parent company of Atlus (Shin Megami Tensei, Persona), reports Bloomberg (translated by Siliconera). The bidding for Index has reportedly gone as high as 20 billion yen ($203.3 million), and the company could be sold by the end of the month. ...
'The Last of Us' multiplayer has less gore in Europe
Your nail bomb will have a slightly less dramatic result when you toss it in a UK match of The Last of Us multiplayer, as Naughty Dog confirmed the European version of the game will be slightly different than its North and South American counterparts, reports Eurogamer. While North America can ...
Crowdfund Bookie, July 28 - August 3: Satellite Reign, Liege, Lacuna Passage
The Crowdfund Bookie crunches data from select successful Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns that ended during the week and produces pretty charts for you to look at. This was a busy week in crowdfunding, as the Kickstarter campaigns for Satellite Reign, Liege, Lacuna Passage, Dungeonmans, ...
Alice: Otherlands Kickstarter successful
The Alice: Otherlands crowdfunding campaign successfully jabberwocky'd off with $222,377. The Kickstarter by game designer American McGee sought to purchase the film rights to the Alice games, which are owned by Collision Entertainment. "The funding will allow us to create a series of animated ...
Minecraft blocks top spot on UK charts, Pikmin 3 takes a dive
A relatively quiet week on the UK charts allows for some meditative crafting, with Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition squarely in first place. The Last of Us moves up to the second of us again, as Pikmin 3, which debuted last week in second, drops all the way off the top ten and into ... still looking ... ...
Take-Two stirs up the Kool-Aid, registers hungoverx.com
Take-Two, the publisher behind games including Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series and Irrational's BioShock franchise, registered the domain "hungoverx.com" on July 25. The domain is registered privately under the care of Network Solutions, but Whois shows Take-Two is pulling the strings. It's also ...
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Crowdfund Bookie, July 28 - August 3: Satellite Reign, Liege, Lacuna Passage
Posted on Aug 5th 2013 9:00AM