PQube’s religious-themed 2D brawler Fight of the Gods has been causing chaos over in Malaysia. The game, which launched on Steam Early Access last week, sees religious and mythological figures such as Jesus, Moses, Odin, Athena and Anubis battling each other for supremacy as they fight an unknown evil. Firstly,the …
Read More »Swery’s The Good Life arrives on crowd-funding platform Fig
Swery, the creator of Deadly Premonition and D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die and founder of new indie studio White Owls, has announced that his next game will be funded through crowd-funding platform Fig. The Good Life, which Swery describes as a ‘debt repayment life simulation RPG’, is part murder mystery …
Read More »PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has sold over 8 million units
With sales numbers confirmed on last night's Xbox live stream, the game is now also the most popular non-Valve developed game on Steam
Read More »Clash of Clans spawns AR builder for anniversary
In partnership with Facebook, Supercell uses te AR Studio tool on the platform to allow the builder to appear in AR
Read More »Blizzard brings back Battle.net name
Blizzard has once again changed the name of its online gaming network, this time settling on the moniker ‘Blizzard Battle.net.’ The news comes just less than a year after Blizzard announced it had decided to move away from its long-standing Battle.net brand, and simply change it to Blizzard. Services such …
Read More »Discord introduces video chat and screen sharing
Video chat and screen sharing are coming to chat platform Discord, the company has announced. Both features have been in hot demand from the Discord community and the idea is to build stronger connections between its nearly 50m users. Rolling out today to a select group of users and the …
Read More »AMD partners with Square Enix Collective for new customer program
AMD and Square Enix have announced a new partnership that will see the hardware manufacturer promote the publisher’s indie itles to new customers. The program, entitled AMD4U, will provide AMD consumers with a range of games from Square Enix’s indie publishing unit, the Square Enix Collective. The aim is to …
Read More »Rez Infinite launches on Steam and Oculus store in surprise release
Enhance Games has announced that its award-winning game Rez Infinite is now available to buy on PC for the very first time. Originally developed for the PS4 and PS VR, players can now buy the game on Steam and Oculus Home. It’s also compatible with the HTC Vive and will …
Read More »Remedy Entertainment teams up with Nvidia for new face animation technology
Shown off at SIGGRAPH and reported by Ars Technica, the technology uses nureal networks to create first time, accurate facial animation results
Read More »Hinterland’s The Long Dark to receive live-action film adaptation
To celebrate the launch of wintry survival game The Long Dark, which leaves Steam’s Early Access today, developer Hinterland has announced it will be bringing the title to the big screen in the form of live-action film adaptation. The game, which is due to launch on PS4, Xbox One and …
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