Building forts is cool and smashing them is perhaps even better, so CastleStorm is certainly interesting in concept. It'll be storming Xbox Live Arcade next Wednesday, developer Zen Studios--of Pinball FX2 fame--announced today, for you to build and defend the fort of your dreams while destroying other people's.
Open-world zombie apocalypse survive 'em up State of Decay will launch in June on Xbox Live Arcade, developer Undead Labs has announced. A PC release will follow later. The studio established by ArenaNet co-founder Jeff Strain also lurched forward with a new trailer clutched in its outstretched arms, showing off snippets of life after undeath.
An updated version of the classic strategy game Age of Empires 2 is coming to Steam on March 9, and will include the Conquerors expansion pack. Steam is already offering a 10 percent discount on the game until launch.
"Gotta win 'em all, poker man!" That's how I'd market a poker game, anyway. But Microsoft, for whatever reason, has instead chosen to buddy up with the World Series of Poker to slap its name on an official poke 'em up for Xbox Live Arcade and Windows 8. Coming this Spring, World Series of Poker: Full House Pro will be free-to-play.
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Microsoft has opened a shiny new studio in the Canadian city of Vancouver to work on its "next big entertainment franchise." What that'll be, well, that's a mystery for now, but Black Tusk Studios has declared its existence to the world and is staffing up.
With Halo 4 arriving next week, Microsoft is cramming trailers and titbits into the gaping maws of hungry fans awaiting the most expensive game it's ever made. Someone's been sneaking snacks, though, as a trailer for the co-op Spartan Ops mode has appeared on the Internet, seemingly leaked out early.
Halo 4 is the most expensive game Microsoft's ever made, which isn't really surprising considering the surrounding marketing includes a feature-length live-action webseries with special effects up the wazoo. You can see more of the fruits of that big spending today, as fourth episode of Forward Unto Dawn is out now, introducing a real-life version of everyone's favourite chef, Petty Officer John-117.
Oh, you may enjoy playing those Halo video games, running around and shooting people over the Internet, but you don't truly appreciate Halo unless you've read the novels and comics, bought the dolls, and watched the anime and, now, live-action series. Microsoft released the twenty-minute first episode of Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn this morning, with more of the universe-building any true fan craves.
"The world doesn't need more dragons," Undead Labs boldly declared back in 2009 when it announced an open-world zombie sandbox codenamed 'Class3.' Even then, it seemed a little short-sighted. One zombie craze later, the studio founded by Blizzard veteran and ArenaNet co-founder Jeff Strain is showing off the rotting fruits of their labour, now named State of Decay and coming to PC and Xbox 360.
Shank developer Klei Entertainment's love of side-scrolling stabbing surfaces again in its new game, but with a little more subtlety. Ninja sneaking and stabbing sim Mark of the Ninja, will be released via Xbox Live Arcade on September 7, the indie announced yesterday.
It's not all fun and games bouncing around Scribblenauts creator 5th Cell's
Hybrid, as each round of the 3v3 multiplayer shooter affects a persistent over-arching world war between the two factions. With Hybrid's release on XBLA in the Summer of Arcade looming near, a new trailer from 5th Cell explains just how it all works.
Hey, kids! Science is fun, and space is cool! So come up, fire up your Xbox 360 and play Mars Rover Landing, a free Kinect Fun Labs game which lets you land NASA's wicked sick Curiosity rover on that gnarly red planet. Parents, please, encourage fondness for sciences in your spawn.
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Forza Horizon will let you start cruising the roads and highways of Colorado beginning in late October, but pre-ordering the game will get Forza 4 players immediate access to a 2012 Dodge Challenger, as well as a token to unlock one of four new cars when the game launches.
Microsoft has picked up Press Play, maker of Tentacles and Max and the Magic Marker, it was announced amidst all the E3 hubub on Monday. It's probably chiefly, but not only, for the Danish studio's mobile mastery, as neither game came to Xbox 360 but both hit Windows Phone.
Epic has whispered and muttered about a new Gears of War over the past few days, but Gears of War: Judgement was only given its grand unveiling during Microsoft's presentation at E3 today. The trailer confirmed that yes, Baird and Cole Train will be shooting guns a lot.
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