Chatty Post of the Moment
Kalypso Media announces it plans to bring Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar to PC this spring from Longbow Digital Arts.
Tindalos Interactive, the minds behind Stellar Impact, present the first look at the upcoming real-time strategy Etherium.
Take a short tour through the character creation system of Blackguards from Daedalic Entertainment.
The tale of SpellForce 2 comes to an end with the release of Demons of the Past, where players must fight to save the land of Eo in a lengthy campaign.
Aveline, the first playable female Assassin throughout the series, brings a whole host of brand new weapons and skills to New Orleans in Assassin's Creed Liberation HD.
You're going to die. Accept it, and come to terms with your cursed existence in Dark Souls II.
Rock out to the best of Oasis in a new downloadable song pack for Rocksmith 2014 Edition.
Gun Metal Trailer
Meet Vella, making a grand debut in Double Fine's Broken Age, in this short debut trailer.
Meet Shay, making a grand debut in Double Fine's Broken Age, in this short debut trailer.
Gearbox has begun sharing more details on its Homeworld remakes, stating that the scope of the project has gone above a simple re-release. The studio has also created a survey to gauge interest in proposed Collector's Editions.
Read more: "The result is a full-fledged remastering of nearly all aspects" »
Q-Games' soup-making strategy game PixelJunk Inc has received another new name, becoming PixelJunk Nom Nom Galaxy. The developer also announced that it'll hit Steam Early Access on March 13 at $9, with a variety of Kickstarter-like higher tiers offering shiny bonuses.
TV network AMC announced today that it is publishing another game based on its popular Walking Dead show, this time for the mobile market. It's in development from Next Games, and will launch alongside season five. Currently, the show is airing the second half of season four.
The 2007 strategy game Panzer Tactics is getting an HD upgrade and rolling its way onto PC and iOS. It will be available in the second quarter, and promises a visual upgrade to the older game.
Read more: Remodeled maps and units, weather and terrain effects »
If I were to make a play about how great I am, I'd want as many people to see it as possible. It's a sentiment Baron Dashforth evidently shares, as the Victorian monster hunter's tale Foul Play is coming to PlayStation 4 and Vita too, publisher Mastertronic announced today. It's a downloadable beat 'em up, starring the dashing gentleman and his sidekick recreating their adventures on stage.
Microsoft has released a manual controller update guide for Xbox One users who have purchased the Stereo Headset Adapter. The adapter lets players use their own chat headset, and will release for $24.99 in time for the release of Titanfall next week.
Once upon a time, the prospect of Android microconsoles like the Ouya was so exciting that several companies pushed out their own devices. In reality, there's barely interest in even one. Perhaps sensibly, they're banding together. Mad Catz today announced that it's teaming up with Ouya to bring the Ouya library and platform to its own M.O.J.O. microconsole.
Sometimes games just need a little time. That's the lesson learned from Tomb Raider, apparently, which crossed from falling short of sales expectations at first to becoming profitable late last year. Now studio head Darrell Gallagher says it's not only become profitable, but gone above and beyond the forecasts.
Read more: On its way to being the best-selling of the franchise »
Jack Tretton is stepping down as president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA). His last day will be March 31st. According to the announcement, this was a "mutual agreement... not to renew their contractual relationship." Replacing Tretton will be Shawn Layden, currently EVP of Sony Network Entertainment International.
Screen Gems, a Sony Pictures company, has signed on to distribute a live action movie adaptation of Naughty Dog's The Last of Us. Creative director Neil Druckmann will write the script for the film. The movie will be produced by Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures.
Disney Interactive has laid off about 700 employees today, about a quarter of its workforce. The cuts are a result of the company's decision to combine two divisions of their company--mobile and social games--while also significantly scaling back in-house development of games, relying more heavily on licensing. Game output from Disney is expected to half after disappointing returns from games like Where's My Water 2.
The next expansion for Call of Duty: Ghosts is Devastation, Activision announced today. It's set to launch on April 3 for Xbox systems, followed sometime later on others. It will pack four maps, a new two-in-one weapon, and the second episode of the four-part "Extinction" story that began in the Onslaught DLC.
Today, Ubisoft announced Watch Dogs' new release date: May 27. It's about half a year after the game was originally supposed to ship, before Ubisoft very suddenly delayed the game just a month before launch.
Senior producer Dominic Guay says that the last-minute delay happened because "we still could have shipped" the game on time. "It was not like we were failing miserably, the game didn't work, or it couldn't be played! We'd been playing this game from front to back for so long it really looked like this would happen."
Amy Hennig's sudden departure from Naughty Dog shocked industry observers. Her ten year tenure with the company helped Naughty Dog become one of Sony's marquee developers. But who is Amy Hennig? Why is she so well-regarded? Today, we look back upon her work, from her early days at Electronic Arts to her recent efforts on the Uncharted trilogy.
Microsoft first unveiled DirectX 11 in 2008. Since then, the graphics API has been updated to 11.1 with the introduction of Windows 8, and updated once again to 11.2 with Windows 8.1. However, Microsoft is finally ready to introduce the next big update to its DirectX platform.
DirectX 12 is coming, but more details are due at Game Developer's Conference this month.
Interesting Comments
By: mnok
in LatestChatty Thought i'd share this for fellow indie devs. As some of you know, I recently decided to leave Ubisoft and try my lu... 24By: Morgin
in LatestChatty DayZ story time. (Warning: long and probably boring, even if you like DayZ. So no complaining!) 35By: Patch-e
in LatestChatty iOS LatestChatty.app users In case you are an app auto-updating kind of person who doesn't read update descriptions, a ... 32By: woddemandred
in LatestChatty The only thing that has ever helped the Estonians is the benevolent ruling hand of Sweden! 20By: jamiejme
in LatestChatty Hey Shack - I'm about to do an AMA over at reddit shortly if anyone wants to throw some horrible questions my way :P Pla 8By: jingletard
in LatestChatty Diablo 3 servers are up I made a clan called Shacknews with the tag of <Shack> Send me a message for an invite. I... 126By: Sgt_Boomstick
in LatestChatty Hey Ozzy, believe it. http://chattypics.com/files/iPhoneUpload_ejy5ekxk8x.jpg 24By: Arctic Fox
in LatestChatty Shack PSA: dudes with iDevices, update your shit ASAP. On Friday, Apple quietly released iOS 7.0.6, explaining in a bri 45By: umegastar
in LatestChatty I'm porting my sweet little Android game to iOS and I had to redo the start screen and level select. I'm learning Objec... 6By: g0nk
in LatestChatty \o/ SUCCESS!!! \o/ 30