There's no finer method of video game locomotion, we can all agree, than the grappling hook. Good news, then, that publisher Focus Home Interactive announced today that Rotatstic will have you not only grappling, but swinging, bouncing, and hacking all over the place on September 21 via Xbox Live Arcade.
Ooh, everyone's going mad for A Song of Ice and Fire. The fifth novel in George R. R. Martin's fantasy series stormed the shelves in July, HBO's television adaptation is introducing a new audience to its incestuous politics, and now the video game's incoming. Publisher Focus Home Interactive today announced that A Game of Thrones: Genesis, Blood Bowl developer Cyanide's real-time strategy adaptation, will arrive for PC on September 29.
The next instalment of the city-building simulation series Cities XL is headed to PC this October, announced today by developer and publisher Focus Home Interactive.
Cities XL 2012, as it's imaginatively named, will boast new environments and 60 maps including a desert oasis, the Cayman Islands, and Utah's Lake Powell. "A much bigger variety" of building types is also promised, bringing the total number of unique structures over 1,000 to make your cities look extra-nifty.
Developer Eugen Systems has announced it is developing a new RTS game to add to its growing stable of franchises in the genre, this time with the alternate history title Wargame: European Escalation.
Set in the "rarely explored period of 1975-1985," Wargame: European Escalation focuses on two sides of a growing battle: the United States and Western Europe versus the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries. "The specter of nuclear warfare loomed large over the real Cold War, but this catastrophic outcome was the ultimate last resort as everyone knew that the first one to start nuclear hostilities would end up wiped out just the same," a press release detailed. Read more »
Having demonstrated a knack for adapting tabletop games to video games with Blood Bowl, Cyanide Studio is now turning its hand to another vintage board game, Rackham's Confrontation.
The fantasy miniature wargame will become a real-time strategy game with RPG elements. If you, like me, are unfamiliar with Confrontation, here's publisher Focus Home Interactive's explanation of the video game: Read more »
Having revealed in May 2009 that it had picked up the interactive rights to George R. R. Martin's fantasy novel series 'A Song of Ice and Fire,' Blood Bowl developer Cyanide Studio today revealed the first fruits of that arrangement--the strategy title A Game of Thrones: Genesis. Read more »
Pendulo Studios, the independent developer behind the Runaway trilogy of adventure games, has officially revealed its next project, appropriately titled "The Next BIG Thing."
According to publisher Focus Home Interactive, players can expect "an original and fantastic story, loaded with humor, twists and turns, and crazy monsters." Read more »
Blood Bowl developer Cyanide Studio has announced an expanded 'Legendary Edition' of its violent sports strategy title based upon the Games Workshop tabletop game.
The Legendary Edition adds a 'Story Mode,' casting players as a freelance coach who will "have to lead several famous teams and take up many challenges through a story revealing the origins of Blood Bowl, the Old World and its many races." Read more »
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