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9th of December 2008 Fake Nintendo DS consoles are being sold from China and Hong Kong. More EA founder Trip Hawkings questions the purpose of Home. More Microsoft may talk about games further than six months after E3. More Here is the Far Cry 2 Intel mission pack for PC. More Fallout 3 High Definition Texture Pack for PC. More Ea make more job cuts. More Terminator: Salvation the movie trailer
Punisher: Warzone the movie trailer
Sony axe 8,000 jobs worldwide. More Try Burnout Paradise on PC for free. More Atari has acquired MMO developer Cryptic Studios. More Dennis Hopper and Billy Bob Thornton have both signed up to THQ. More Strategic Command WWII Pacific Theatre Demo. More Atlantica Online v687 Client and Patch. More The mouse hits 40-year milestone. More Virtual world for Muslims debuts. More Coming the Wednesday on XBLA: Meteos Wars will PowerUp Forever . More
Factor 5 Animator Claims Studio is Cutting Projects. More Here are the specs for Mirror's Edge on the PC As far as PhysX is concerned - The game will run
fine without it. TIGSource's Commonplace Book Competition Entries
Shown above, a compilation of short gameplay clips from selected Commonplace Book Competition entries. Download links to all thirty-three games can be found in TIGSource's voting forum thread. Free Indie Rapid Fire: Auditorium, Seppukuties
Bytejacker's
Free Indie Rapid Fire feature is
delivered to you in a new widescreen format this week, while iPhone owners
can now
catch the show on the go without missing
a single episode. Games featured today: Cipher Prime's Auditorium, Miguel
Sternberg's Night of the Cephalopods and Antony Lavelle's Seppukuties.
8th of December 2008 Midway Cleared Of Psi-Ops Copyright Infringement. More Warhammer online expansion has been put on hold to improve the main game. More Previews: No Quarter, Raptor Copter
Preview clip of Cryptic Sea's No Quarter, an album of games inspired by retro arcade classics.
7th of December 2008 Sigourney Weaver offered the part of Ripley in the two aliens games. More CD Projekt Co-Founders Get 'Entrepreneurs Of The Year' award. More voxexmachina.com has an interesting article on Age of Conan and how it will die like the rest of the World of Warcraft wannabes. More Here is a small story, written as a script for a film or game. It's called: Better the devil we know TorrentFreak has a list of the top 10 pirated games for 2008. You would think that someone in the game industry would be mulling over the figures to work out who to sue. More Cliffy B intends to fix journalism. It might help if he didn't look like such a big tit to begin with. More Gamestop is not interested in bidding for Woolworths. More Here is an interesting picture that compares the real Lincoln memorial to the one in Fallout 3
Articles on Indie Games
Postmortem: The Graveyard (Gamasutra)
6th of December 2008 Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 v1.05 Patch allows you to de-aurthorize a computer and return the used install back, and allowing you to install the game another time on a different PC. More hunterchief117 of Gamingclarity fame has in interesting article called, "Tits, ass, and a steel bikini" Give it a read. More Parents warned on fake consoles on the BBC's website. More Midway may default on $240 million in debt. Are they sure they will be around in 2010 to release those games? More
5th of December 2008 Crysis Warhead high resolution texture pack is now available on file planet but is 2 GB in size. More Killzone 2 has been scheduled for a February release in the US. More New internet speed rules come into effect in the UK. More OpeniMac (mac clones) machines are being made and sold from Argentina. More T3 has a review of the new Nintendo DSi. More A special version of Street Fighter IV collectors edition will be coming to Europe and includes a second disc that will have a feature-length HD anime movie created for SF IV, and a selection of the pre-release trailers. More Konami post a teaser for the next Metal Gear game. More Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix should be free today on XBOX Live. More Astro Tripper will be available next week on PSN. More
Trine Casting A Lovely Spell On PSN. More
Updates: Rescue The Beagles, Iji
The final version for
Rescue: The Beagles was released just
today, and it was also hinted that Linux and Mac ports are currently in
the works as well. Changes and additions include:
4th of December 2008 Atari will be distributing Tekken 6 (More) and Demigod in Europe, and taking into account that Square Enix will be distributing Supreme Commander 2, it is a little surprising. More Majesco are releasing Gardening Mama for the DS. Are people really that lazy? More Dragon Quest V for the DS will be released next Spring. More There will be a free episode of Qore (episode 7) for the Playstation 3 on December the 8th. More Pioneer showcase a sixteen layer Blu-ray disc that can hold up to four hundred Gigabytes. It will play on all existing players including the Playstation 3. More
3rd of December 2008 Virtual hamster announced for the PSP. More Castle Crashers multi player patch will soon be available. More Age of Conan is still in production of the XBOX 360. More The new XBOX 360 arcade will come with 256 MB of internal ram and according to Microsoft. "We are constantly updating the console's more than 1700 internal components. We can confirm that we are moving to internal memory for the Xbox 360 Arcade. The physical internal memory is the same size as the previous external memory units - 256MB." More World's 1st 3D LED Display Sports 180-inch Screen. More
Apple finally start pushing anti-virus for Macs. Are they taking the p**s? More XBOX 360 outsells Playstation 3 three to one on black Friday. More RIAA sue hospitalised teenager over $10 of music she did not download. More King of the Fighters the movie; What will they next turn into a film? How about Cooking Mama. More This is censorship gone wild. Timothy Plan has created a document that is meant to be a guide for sensible presents for Christmas. That seems reasonable so far but, he has highlighted Army of Two as and I quote, "GAY & LESBIAN: Homosexual Encounters: (not mentioned): Somewhat homo-erotic undertones between the two main characters are present.". Right!! Here is a link to the original Kotaku story. More The original site is very slow so I have posted the PDF file here. More Yakuza 3 will be bundled with a white Playstation 3 console. More Atari plan on producing new games based on Baldur's Gate, Dungeons & Dragons, Neverwinter Nights and Test Drive Unlimited. More Activision: ‘Call of Duty: World At War’ DLC Will Be Unusual. More Riddick: Dark Athena will be available early 2009 and will be approximately ten hours. More Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online Closed Beta Client can be obtained at gamershell. More
2nd of December 2008 Nintendo make $6 for every Wii they sell. No wonder they don't want to reduce the price of the machine. More Grand Theft Auto on the PC will be uncut in Australia. More Nintendo can not patent the term Wiimote in the US, because remote is too common. More Want to learn the five different class types in Dragon Quest 9? Here is a translated Japanese page for you to read. More Solar Plexus
What we know about Joakim's new game (pictured
above): Freeware Game Pick: Insomnia (Wilson Saunders)
A 2D platformer created by Wilson Saunders, the
objective of
Insomnia is
to reach the top of a tower before you collapse from deprivation of sleep
and get dragged down by tentacles into their cold embrace for a really
long nap. Trailer: RunMan - Race Around the World (CoolMoose)
Gameplay trailer for RunMan: Race Around the
World, a 2D platformer currently being developed by Tom Sennett (RunMan's
Monster Fracas) and
Matt Thorson (An Untitled Story, Jumper series).
1st of December 2008 Here are some new screen shots from Star Trek Online. More Midway is working on a title that is alleged to be better that Gear of War 2. More The Escapist has an interesting article on Abandonware and how they work with the copyright holders. More The passing of an XBOX 360 is usually tough but, the average person doesn't usually have a funeral for it. check out this funeral piece one owner has for their machine. More I appear in this weeks AI Podcast. More A new trailer for the Half Life total conversion Black Mesa, on Half Life 2 engine has been released. I wouldn't get too excited. This game has been in production for over three years with no release date in sight. More Grand Turismo 5 is expected to be released at Christmas 2009. More Freeware Game Pick: Teppomanto (Ikiki)
Teppomanto is a new 2D action game
created by the author of Nikujin and Teppoman, where players assume
control over another naked assassin on a mission to infiltrate the enemy
base and take out all adversaries within. Freeware Game Pick: Lost in Eldritch (Joachim Despland)
Lost in Eldritch is a short 2D platformer
created by Joachim Despland for TIGSource's Commonplace Book competition,
featuring a protagonist who is stranded on an unfamiliar landscape with no
memory of events leading up to his current predicament. Freeware Game Pick: From Primordial Egg (Logan Ames)
From Primordial Egg is a Commonplace Book
competition entry created by Logan Ames, developer of the exploration
platformer
Nothing. Starting out as a baby dinosaur inside an egg, players
would have to press a button repeatedly to break the shell and venture
forth into the labyrinth for food. Freeware Game Pick: Verge (Kyle Pulver)
Verge is a 2D platformer created by the
developer of Bonesaw: The Game for TIGSource's Commonplace Book
competition, featuring music contributed by Alec Holowka. In it, players
assume control over an unnamed protagonist who has to traverse between two
worlds in order to solve rudimentary block puzzles and reach the exit of
each stage. This will require impaling himself with spikes Karoshi-style,
using marked tiles on the ground to teleport, or jumping into deep ponds
to appear on the other side.
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