It seems that there is a market for action space games, as the freshly released ‘The Wing Commander Saga’ was downloaded 50.000 times in its first 24 hours. Nice number, right? Of course that might be due to the fact that it’s a freeware game. Nevertheless, it’s a huge number for such a game from an indie studio. What’s more even more impressive is that most publications and gaming sites were – pleasantly – surprised by it. Continue reading Wing Commander Saga hits 50K downloads in its first 24 hours→
The UK PC Retail and Steam PC Digital charts have just been revealed and at their top places we can find Mass Effect 3 and Dungeon Siege Complete. It definitely is a nice surprise to see Mass Effect 3 back at the top place of the UK PC Retail as the game was placed at the fifth place last week. Shogun 2: Total War Fall of the Samurai on the other hand has lost four place. Star Wars: The Old Republic lost one place, Football Manager 2012 gained one, and Skyrim remained at the same place. Last but not least, Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition has lost the tenth from The Sims 3: Generations. Continue reading Weekly Top 10 PC Charts; UK PC Retail and Steam Digital Charts [March 25th – 31st]→
Man, Ridge Racer: Unbounded PC was certainly broken at its time of release. Alongside the Level Editor bug, the game suffered from a Multiplayer issue. Long story short, PC gamers cannot invite their friends in a game. This is a major issue and Bugbear has revealed that they are working on a new update that might hit Steam next week. Continue reading Ridge Racer: Unbounded – PC patch to fix the ‘MP invitation’ issues coming next week→
With the recent news of an upcoming RAGE surprise, a lot of PC gamers started wondering whether they’d be getting that rumored high resolution texture pack or not. Well, it appears that there wasn’t any such texture pack to begin with, as John Carmack has revealed that most of the source art isn’t at higher resolution, therefore there can’t be a high-resolution texture pack for it. Continue reading RAGE PC – The rumored high resolution texture pack won’t get released… ever→
I’ll be damned, they managed to pull it off. TAKEDOWN, Christian Allen’s tactical shooter hit its $200K mark and will be funded. This is a real accomplishment as yesterday, the game needed around $40K USD to hit its goal. We are pretty sure that Total Biscuit’s video and Notch’s tweets were a big push, but to be honest, we didn’t expect to see it getting funded. Let’s now hope that TAKEDOWN will be a truly spiritual successor to the Rainbow Six and SWAT series and not a big… let down. Continue reading Christian Allen’s tactical shooter ‘TAKEDOWN’ hits $200K and will be funded after all→
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was an amazing game that was plagued by a problematic game engine. Naturally, a lot of gamers wished to replay this game in a different engine and this might come true, as there are some teams that are already working on various STALKER mods for Crysis. One of them is called CryZone: Sector 23 and is the most well known. However, today we’ll concentrate on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Dead Zone. Continue reading STALKER comes to CryEngine 2 with the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Dead Zone Mod for Crysis→
In order to celebrate the launch of GTX 680, Nvidia held a party at San Francisco’s Mezzanine Lounge. In this party, the company showcased Borderlands 2 with its PhysX features that will accompany the PC version of it. In addition, the company has revealed an official tech demo for it that can be viewed below. Expect to see a HD version of it in the coming days but until then, enjoy this cam version! Continue reading Borderlands 2 – NVIDIA GTX 680 Tech Demo (Cam)→
Although it’s Sunday, a lot of companies decided to go ahead and announce some fake projects in order to fool their fans. One of them was obviously Blizzard who made an April Fool’s announcement about a new Starcraft game for iOS devices and web browsers. What really shocked us though was the fact that Blizzard was mocking BioWare with the supposedly features of this new Starcraft game. Continue reading Blizzard is mocking BioWare with an ‘April’s Fool’ Starcraft Announcement→
As we told you yesterday, Team Meat were planning to announce a new Super Meat Boy. Well, the news came earlier than we have expected as the team announced that they’ll be porting their game to the iOS devices. Team Meat have been playing with the idea of porting SMB on the iphone for some time but could not get it working. Therefore, they decided to remake the game from the ground up, thus giving birth to Super Meat Boy: The Game. Continue reading Super Meat Boy comes to iOS with Super Meat Boy: The Game→
Super Smash Bros fans, here is something for you. No, this is not an April Fools joke so keep reading. A team of passionate gamers is working on a fan project that will allow you to play Super Smash Bros Melee online. Although this project was under development for quite some time, the team has successfully managed to release – internally – an alpha version that works quite well. Continue reading Super Smash Bros Melee Online Enters Alpha Stage; a fan project that lets you play online SSBM→
