Nintendo's showing off a brand-new batch of indies heading for the Switch and Switch 2 systems in the coming months. Here's a round-up of what we saw today.
We traveled to Chengdu, China, to check out Eclipse Glow Games’ debut game, Tides of Annihilation, and talk with the team about mixing Chinese action with the Legend of King Arthur.
There are terrible bad games that you should avoid at all costs, mediocre bad games that disappear from your memory when they leave your field of view, and then there is the difficult-to-define good bad game.
Backed up by a fun campaign, thrilling multiplayer, and loads of new modes and content, Modern Warfare 4 serves as a solid sendoff for the rebooted subseries.
Dan Ryckert's Gamerscore is now over 98,000, Jeff Cork just hit the
100,000 mark, and executive editor Andrew Reiner is approaching an
astounding 140,000 and loves it. But I found one gamer who puts all three of them to shame...and then some.
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share your plans.
Starting with Costume Quest, Brutal Legend developer Double Fine has
adopted a new strategy committed to more releases of smaller titles. Creative director Tim Schafer is pleased with the new direction.
High Moon is offering its players 10 times the normal XP values for
multiplayer games this weekend, and they sent along this awesome
desktop wallpaper as a thank you to the fans.
An industrious trademark hunter has come across the two games that are
certainly not Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity and Phantasy Star Online
2. Those have already been announced.
The Brett Favre Media Empire is sitting for the first time in its
historic career, but the first TV ad for World of Warcraft's upcoming
expansion will be hitting during the Dallas Cowboys' loss to the
Minnesota Vikings on Sunday afternoon.
It looks like Dark Void developer Airtight Games has started to
ramp up development for whatever they’re cooking up next. The developer
is currently hiring.
Duke Nukem Forever is going to be big. Gaming collective: "How big?"
According to Gearbox president Randy Pitchford, it's going to be three
times the size of Modern Warfare 2. What were you expecting, some kind
of stupid joke?
Word is spreading that the Australia-based studio responsible for Microsoft's Game Room and Ty the Tasmanian Tiger has laid off all employees and is shutting down early next week.
Thanks to some changes to the NPD Group's monthly sales figure reports, we know a lot less information than usual, but Halo Reach, Madden NFL 11, and the Xbox 360 are clear winners for the month of September.
