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Gap Between Independent iPhone Game Developers and Big Name Publishers to Widen

News / July 15, 2016

The market for games for Apple’s iPhone ap store is growing by leaps and bounds. Developers big and small are trying to get a piece, which may eventually lead to the squeezing out of independent game developers. According to analytics company Mobclix there are 13,732 game applications available on the App store and 25-50 new […]

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Take Two Confirms Bioshock 2 Delay

News / July 15, 2016

Take Two has confirmed the delay in release of Bioshock 2. With an original release date of November 2009, they have announced the delay in order to improve the quality of the game and to produce a better performing product for the marketplace. Three other of their titles are set to release in a similar

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Fallout 3 Mothership Zeta due out on August 3rd

News / July 15, 2016

Bethesda has released info on the 5th and final DLC for Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta. Players can expect some wicked alien confrontations as they are abducted and trying to fight their way off the alien ship. And of course, they wouldn’t expect you to be able to do it without new weapons and armor such

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China Limits Gold Farming in Continued Internet Crackdown

News / July 15, 2016

The Chinese government has declared that virtual currency will only be allowed to be traded for virtual goods/services, not real ones. They estimate that last year the trade of virtual currency exceeded several billion yuan (about $146 million) and would be expected to grow 20% annually. This is expected to affect 300 million users in

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WoW to Offer Faction Switching

News / July 15, 2016

All your hard work..all the grinding and raiding…and now you want to switch sides. Blizzard will now make it so. According to Blizzard poster Nethaera: "We wanted to give everyone a very early heads-up that, in response to player requests, we’re developing a new service for World of Warcraft that will allow players to change

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No LAN for Starcraft II

News / July 15, 2016

Excitement building and a beta so close you can almost taste it, Blizzard announces that LAN will not be supported for its upcoming Starcraft II. In order to further push and promote battle.net, Blizzard rep Bob Colayco states, “”We don’t currently plan to support LAN play with StarCraft II, as we are building Battle.net to

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Doom Resurrection Hits App Store Today, More Classic FPS to Come

News / July 15, 2016

Doom Resurrection will be available today in the iPhone App Store. Based off of Doom 3, Doom Resurrection starts the rush of the FPS game to mobile gaming. Legendary id programmer John Carmack stated that Quake, Quake 2 and a port for Quake 3 arena are in the works. Doom 2 RPG and the classic

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No more “Hot Girls” for Apple Store

News / July 15, 2016

Almost as quickly as it made an appearance, the "Hottest Girl" app was quickly taken away. Debuting on Thursday, the app which was the first to feature full frontal nudity was removed later in the day. Apple cited inappropriate content and accused app designer, Allen Leung, of adding the inappropriate content to the server after

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PSP Go Hitting Stores October, PlayStation Phone in the Works?

News / July 15, 2016

Rumors once again have come alive surrounding the topic of the possibility of a PlayStation phone. With Apple’s iPhone 3G making mobile gaming even easier, news from Japan says Sony will open a new department exploring a “cell phone-game gear hybrid”. Seven of the top 10 apps in Apple’s Appstore are games and developers are

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Transformers Star Disses Wii

News / July 15, 2016

What would YOU rather do? Eat glass or play the new Transformers game on Wii with Megan Fox?The answer was simple for Shia LaBeouf – he told gaming blog Big Download he would rather eat glass. While LaBeouf had high praise for the game on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, he had low opinion

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