So this is happening: Developer Obsidian — with talent responsible for roleplaying oldies like Fallout, Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment — just killed it on Kickstarter, hotfooting from zero to $1.1 million with its …
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Wii U Out November 18, Priced Up to $350, ‘Nintendo TVii’ Unveiled
It was getting close, with autumn knocking, but Nintendo this morning finally announced a release date and pricing for its imminent Wii-quel, the Wii U. The set-top video games system will officially hit shelves in the U.S. on …
Nintendo Wii U Will Be More Expensive than PS3, Xbox 360 in Japan
Back to the Farm: Zynga Launches FarmVille 2
At the height of the FarmVille craze, back in 2010, there were two kinds of Facebook users: those who were addicted to FarmVille, and those whose friends were addicted to FarmVille.
Zynga’s creation wasn’t the first one to let …
Is Valve Really Getting into the Hardware Biz?
By all accounts — most conspicuously its own — Valve, the PC-centric games developer that brought us games like Half-Life and Portal as well as distribution service Steam, has finally admitted it’s leaping into the PC hardware …
Guild Wars 2 Sales: One Million Pre-Served, Record 400,000 Playing at Once
Guild Wars 2 is finally here! Or wait, wasn’t it already here three days ago? And…okay, hold on a second, didn’t it somehow launch just yesterday, too?
How Long Does It Take to Hit Level 160 in Diablo III?
You’ve swept through Diablo III like a scythe through styrofoam pellets. You have every character class maxed, every item slot perfected. You’ve soloed through “Inferno,” which is even harder than reading that musty 14th-century …
OnLive Launches New Company to Avoid Bankruptcy
Cloud gaming service OnLive is still live, but under new management, per a statement released Sunday night by company spokesperson Jane Anderson. The press release addressed last Friday’s rumors that the company went bankrupt and …
Did Cloud Gaming Service OnLive Really Just Fire Its Entire Staff? [Updated]
It’s definitely not the sort of news you want to run across on an otherwise lovely Friday afternoon: Brian Fargo, a game developer with inXile Entertainment, posted something he claims is an email received from an OnLive employee …
Sony’s Gamescom Proposal to Buoy the PlayStation Vita: All Hands on Deck!
There’s this mega-gaming show going on in Germany right now, the European equivalent of our own E3. You’ve might have noticed it echoed on a handful of game blogs, as those who made the trip across the pond attempt to telegraph …
Hackcraft: Blizzard Warns of Security Intrusion, Recommends Users Change Passwords
It’s getting so companies that haven’t been hacked are probably starting to feel left out: Blizzard just announced that it recently discovered an “unauthorized and illegal access” to its internal network — a breach that included …
Zynga Plunges 40% in Tech Bloodbath
As global economic conditions worsen, tech companies have little margin for error.
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