Splinter Cell Conviction demo coming; will it show up for the PC?
Filed under: Action , Video April's only major PC game that's due to be released is Ubisoft 's long awaited stealth action game Splinter Cell Conviction . The latest spy adventure for Sam Fisher is due for release on April 13. However if you are not sure the game is for you (or if you are wary of getting the game due to Ubisoft's DRM set up) there may be a way coming to help you make up your ...
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GDC 2010: OnLive to launch free game demo and rental service
Filed under: Downloads , Hardware You thought we were done talking about OnLive at GDC 2010 , didn't you? Well we did too until we learned about the streaming PC game service's other plan to introduce itself to gamers. Earlier this week the company announced a June 17 launch date for their main OnLive service which will cost $14.95 a month with rentals and purchasing of games representing an ...
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Deep Blue Sea 2 PC preview
Publisher: The Game Equation Developer: The Game Equation Requirements: Windows or Mac OS X Genre: Puzzle Release Date: March 2010 It’s been a few years since the events of Deep Blue Sea. Jessica, the former advertising executive turned treasure hunter, has disappeared. Her younger sister, Melissa, receives a worn postcard with a note in Jessica’s handwriting, written in [...]
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iPhone Players: Prepare to Frag PC and Console Gamers
The Apple-vs.-PC war is about to get literal. Bigpoint and Unity Technologies are demonstrating at the Game Developers Conference a new version of the Unity browser-based software, which will now allow iPhone gamers to play against PC players. The companies presented today a racing game demo, named "Uniter," demonstrating the technology. "This is our vision of the gaming industry in the future ...
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Prison Break Game to Launch March 30
Prison Break the video game was first announced last October and now Zootfly/SouthPeak Games' take on the popular TV series has a release date: March 30. Prison Break - Video game - Television program - Television - Koch Media
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Bigpoint to unveil platform for MMO games on Mac, iPhone
Perhaps you’ve seen that recent Microsoft demo where a game could save and load progress from Xbox 360, Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7 Series devices. My first thought upon seeing that was “So, why doesn’t Microsoft have something that can do that on Xbox and PC right now?” My second thought was “Boy, wouldn’t it be nice if there was something like that for the iPhone and Mac OS X?” It turns out ...
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Transformers: War for Cybertron shows how it all began
Cybertron isn't just the homeworld of the Transformers... it is a Transformer itself. It was the first Transformer. In War for Cybertron you get to explore the Civil War between the Autobots and the Decepticons as they blast their way across the planet. At GDC we were treated to a long demo of the game, and yes, it looks good. The characters were given all-new designs, and some of them will in ...
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GamePro at GDC, Day 4: What we learned today
Panels and appointments at the Game Developers Conference are loaded with all kinds of information about video games. Some of it's social, some of it's technical, and a whole lot of it can go over the average gamer's head. GamePro breaks some of it down for you here.
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Cross platform play demos on PC, mobile phone and Xbox 360
Filed under: Hardware Cross platform play between PC and Xbox 360 games has been few and far between in the last few years, but is Microsoft getting ready to make that happen more frequently? Our sister site Engadget points over to a recent demo shown on YouTube where a simple casual platformer game is seen being played on a Windows Phone series 7 prototype phone, a PC and an Xbox 360. The demo ...
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12 Best Games, Trends, and Announcements of GDC 2010
GamePro attended this year's Game Developers Conference, which featured over a hundred sessions on everything from social game design to how Sony's new motion controller, the PlayStation Move, will be utilized in future PlayStation 3 games. We've sifted through the deluge of information to give you the rundown on the twelve biggest announcements, games, and trends that came out of GDC 2010.
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Xaviant LLC licenses CryEngine 3
Crytek's latest game development solution to be used by Georgia-based developer Xaviant for new multi-platform title Lichdom.
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Interview: Epic's Rein On Why AAA Is 'Not Going Away', It's 'Going Everywhere'
At the Game Developers Conference this year, a wide swath of investors, execs and developers are all but declaring the imminent demise of traditional console game development, thanks to the rise of social, mobile and digital games, plus new tech. Few people are less likely to agree with that perspective than Epic's Mark Rein. "How'd that Modern Warfare 2 do," he joked at the event, where he ...
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GDC 2010: Mafia II
Released on the PC in 2002, Mafia garnered almost unanimous high praise from game critics, with many citing the realistic nature of the world and spot-on production as high points of the game. Unfortunately for console gamers, the PS2 and Xbox versions suffered from numerous bugs and glitches, and didn't provide the same level of polish that the PC version presented. Fortunately, developer 2K ...
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Or will I go from rags to riches? Hands-on with Mafia 2
With Mafia 2 , developer 2K Czech is leaving the optimism to Tony Bennett: this is not intended to be a rags to riches crime story. Don’t expect golden dreams to come true. This is the story of a man trying to keep his head above water, a man who returns to America after seeing the devastation of World War 2 Europe, and tries to make his way in an unforgiving city. When the game opens, Vito ...
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