Activision announced today that Call of Duty: Black Ops II has crossed the $1 billion mark in worldwide retail sales, according to Chart-Track retail customer sell-through information and internal company estimates. The game achieved this milestone in just 15 days after its launch on 13th November, 2012. Last year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 reached $1 billion in retail sales in 16 days. The box office record set for feature films in 2009 by “Avatar” was $1 billion in 17 days. Continue reading Call of Duty: Black Ops II surpasses $1 billion retail sales in 15 days→
After two years of development, the experimental RPG Shadow of the Game is finally released! Shadow of the Game – which resembles a visual novel – is now available on a broad variety of distribution channels and is described as a lengthy multiple award-winning roleplaying title with a strong focus on interactive storytelling. The game is like an interactive visual novel that explores the boundaries between online identities and real-life identities. Continue reading Shadow of the Game lets you experience MMO goodness inside a Single-Player game→
SEGA today announced that Creative Assembly, award-winning creator of the Total War series, and SEGA Group have entered into a multi-title licensing deal with Games Workshop to create videogames based in the Warhammer universe of fantasy battles. Continue reading New Warhammer titles coming from Creative Assembly→
AMD fans, here is something for you today. AMD has released a new set of drivers for its graphics cards and according to their release notes, these drivers are recommended for those currently playing Ubisoft’s FPS, Far Cry 3. In addition, AMD has released Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 that should be used in conjunction with AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta11, and offer additional performance improvements to Far Cry 3. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 11 Released (9.010.8 December 2)→
Now this is a nice surprise. Our reader Gianluca Manocchio has informed about an interesting entry on ShopTo. As we can see, this online store has listed Injustice: Gods Among Us for the PC, even though the game has been announced for X360 and PS3. Since NetherRealm has not confirmed anything – and since we know that they don’t give a damn about the PC platform – we advice you take it with a grain of salt. Funny thing is that there is also a PC packshot for it. We’ll contact NetherRealm and try to find out whether this is true or not. You can view below a screen-grab from that PC item. Continue reading Online store ‘ShopTo’ lists Injustice: Gods Among Us for the PC→
Gaz Liddon, co-founder of Ruffian Games, has uploaded a video that showcases a cancelled project that was based on SEGA’s classic 2D scrolling beat’em up, Streets of Rage. According to Liddon, this video features some scenes from a playable prototype of Streets of Rage remake and it was something they built very rapidly and represents pre-pre-pre-pre (lots of pres) pre-Alpha quality. And thank God it was cancelled as we strongly believe that a SOR remake should keep its 2D scrolling mechanics. It’s okay to update its graphics, but why on Earth would someone make it a third-person game? But anyway, you can view the video below. Enjoy! Continue reading Streets of Rage Remake – Footage Emerged from this cancelled project→
Free-to-play fans, we got some good and some bad news for you today. The good news is that Hawken, Adhesive Games’ F2P mech game, is scheduled to enter open beta next week, on December 12th. The bad news is that Path of Exile, one of our most anticipated action hack-n-slash RPGs, is delayed to January 2013 as Grinding Gear believes that a Christmas release is really dangerous and could possibly damage the game and its fanbase. Continue reading Hawken enters open beta next week, Path of Exile open beta delayed to January 2013→
Electronic Arts and Crytek today announced a creative partnership with renowned filmmaker Albert Hughes to produce an online video series inspired by the upcoming sandbox shooter, Crysis 3. Entitled, “The 7 Wonders of Crysis 3”, this cinematic series will set the stage for this latest installment in the Crysis series and introduce weapons, enemies, and gameplay features new to the franchise. These cinematic shorts will also showcase the stunning visuals, dynamic environments of the urban rainforest and intense adaptive warfare fans can expect when Crysis 3 ships on Friday 22 February in UK. Continue reading Crysis 3 will get an online cinematic video series, teaser trailer released→
