Wargaming today announced the release of Update 8.7 for its MMO action game World of Tanks in Europe. North American and Korean players will get the new version on July 25th and August 1st, respectively. Continue reading World of Tanks – Update 8.7 Is Now Live→
Remember a petition that was launched for GTA V PC? Well, the good news is that this petition has managed to attract a lot of attention and has been signed up by more than 240K people. The bad news is that Rockstar has not commented on it as of yet. Okay, we already know that the company will port it to the PC at a later date, however it seems that fans want to clarification right here, right now. Which isn’t going to happen as that would damage the console sales of GTA V. Continue reading Vegeta Approves – GTA V’s PC Petition Is Way Over 9000→
Stardock announced today that it has secured the rights to the classic PC franchise Star Control with the intent to develop a new Star Control game. Development on the new game will begin this year with a release date to be determined at a later time. Continue reading Stardock Acquires Rights to Star Control Franchise→
GDC Europe 2013 organizers announced that Crytek’s executive producer Joshua Howard will show attendees how to apply game design to management and create more productive teams in ‘Better Teams Through Game Design. As the press release reads, Howard advocates people as players and not pieces in management, drawing from experience currently working on free-to-play FPS Warface and former projects such as Microsoft Flight and APB. Continue reading GDC Europe 2013 – Crytek and Silent Hunter Online talks added→
Despite the fact that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 is one of the most anticipated titles of 2013, Mercury Steam – the studio that is currently developing the latest Castlevania games – is not willing to produce any further games based on the Castlevania universe. This may come as a surprise to some but according to Dave Cox, head of UK Studio at Konami Digital Entertainment and Producer of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Series, both Mercury Steam and Konami want to simply move forward and explore new universes. Continue reading Konami Explains Why Mercury Steam Will Be Leaving The Castlevania Universe Behind→
KING Art’s and Nordic Games’ point and click adventure, The Raven – Legacy of a Master Thief, is now available to download via various Download-platforms for PC, Mac and Linux and will be available via the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade later this summer. Continue reading The Raven – Legacy of a Master Thief – First Episode Is Now Available→
NeoGAF’s member ‘OnPoint’ has spotted a cool retro 2D indie title that is inspired by Castlevania, Actraiser, Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins and Demon’s Crest. According to its description, ‘Odallus is a NES inspired exploration game with lots of action’ and ‘it will be divided in stages, but there is no one-way-only in Odallus and levels have many paths, including to other levels. ‘ Continue reading Odallus: The Dark Call Is A “Castlevania + Actraiser” Inspired Title, Releases In 2014→
