Still not sure what Gotham City Impostors is all about, and how anyone can turn Batman into a First Person Shooter? Maybe these new animated short films will help explain the game’s premise. Even if you’re already sold on this upcoming downloadable shooter, you’ll still probably enjoy watching these Bat-tastic 90-second cartoons.
‘Tis that time of year again when every online game puts out some sort of “Holiday” update that tasks players with saving Santa. Killing Floor, the co-op zombie survival horror shooter takes a different route each year, and tries very hard to soak your childhood nostalgia with blood.
The classic 4X space strategy game Galactic Civilizations II is now available on Valve’s hugely successful digital distribution platform, Steam. It’s the latest in a number of releases of Stardock games on Steam, the last of which was Sins of a Solar Empire.
The re-release of the game is the Ultimate Edition of the game and as such includes both of the game’s expansion packs – “Dark Avatar” and “Twilight of the Arnor“, each of which adds numerous new campaigns, tech trees, spies and enemies to the already massive game.
Fresh details and screenshots have arrived on the upcoming Game of Thrones RPG game in development by Cyanide Games. The screenshots show off more of the games very strong looking graphics as well as give a glimpse into the nature of the games combat system.
Markus Persson, the creator of Minecraft announced yesterday that he’ll be stepping down from his leadership of that game. His hand-picked successor as Lead Developer will be Jens Bergensten who has been on the development team for quite a while now.
A Houston-based game developer named Night Owl Games filed a preemptive lawsuit with the Texas court, hoping to find declaratory judgment that their own proposed trademark for the name “Dungeonville” does not infringe on Zynga’s own trademarks, including Facebook social games like Farmville and Petville.
Console gamers have seen the last hurrah for 2011 in terms of new games, but the PC scene can still look forward to several new games in this final month like Star Wars: TOR and Trine 2. Another PC game whose release date was just confirmed is Q.U.B.E. a debut title by indie developers Toxic Games.
Due to the relative ease of use and game development, the iPad App store has plenty of unique business models. There are cheaper apps that are created on lower budgets, free-to-play games driven by micro-transactions, products populated with advertisements, and more. Apple’s popular tablet was almost introduced to yet another business model, in the form of a multi-game subscription for Big Fish Games.
In case you’ve forgotten, as you’ve likely been lost in the realm of Skyrim, this game called Battlefield 3 came out. Well the first DLC pack, Back to Karkand, is coming out and EA has been kind of enough to give us a little sneak peak with a brand new trailer. The DLC pack features multiplayer maps from Battlefield 2 re-imagined using the new Frostbite 2 engine. The new trailer shows off the Gulf of Oman map and showcases the return of some vehicles that may be familiar for veteran players, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and desert buggy. There’s also a brand new vehicle in the video. See if you can find it, it’s right around the 1:02 mark.
It’s been a fair while since the last Rainbow Six game but fans of the venerable team based first person shooter series may be delighted to hear the first details about the next one, which will be called Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6: Patriots.
