12 years ago
Disney snatches up UTV
The Walt Disney Company has acquired media corporation UTV along with its subsidiary, game publisher UTV Ignition Entertainment Ltd, according to a Eurogamer report of a story that originated from BBC News. UTV is an India-based firm that specializes in film, television, animation and gaming. Disney’s cost for acquiring a controlling interest has not been made public as of this time. India’s cabinet just last month approved the entertainment conglomerate’s bid to pick up shares of UTV that it was not already in possession of.
12 years ago
Shank 2’s Survival Mode takes center stage in new vid
There’s just one week to go until EA releases Klei’s Shank 2 on February 8, and they’ve dropped a new video properly introducing fans to the new multiplayer …
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12 years ago
Smudged Cat Games announces Gateways
Smudged Cat Games — creators of XBLA’s Adventures of Shuggy — today announced their next title, a puzzle-platformer going by the name Gateways. It isn’t yet clear as to …
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12 years ago
Remedy believes Alan Wake’s American Nightmare is unlike anything else on XBLA
Despite being an excellent horror-action title that was praised by most critics, the original Alan Wake experienced a red death on the sales front due to poor release timing. In part motivated by the game’s big budget and subsequently disappointing sales figures, developer Remedy Entertainment decided to trim back the development scale some for the series’ next release by making it an XBLA exclusive. With Alan Wake’s American Nightmare’s February 22 release right around the corner, Gamasutra posted an interview with Remedy Managing Director Matias Myllyrinne yesterday that explored some of the details of the project.
12 years ago
Fez rated by ESRB
Although it has not yet turned up publicly on the ESRB’s website, developer Polytron has declared over Twitter that its platformer, Fez, has been rated by the board. The …
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12 years ago
Harmonix working on new XBLA game
A designer’s resume, exposed earlier today via Twitter, has made public the fact that developer Harmonix is working on a previously unannounced title. The game is referred to in the LinkedIn resume of one Brian Chan simply as “unannounced title,” but Chan did reveal the platforms it is coming to: XBLA, PSN and, rather peculiarly, Facebook.
12 years ago
USAF officer in Afghanistan receives physical copy of Bastion
Reddit user “bolivar-shagnasty” is currently serving his country as an officer in the United States Air Force stationed in Afghanistan where the internet is “disgustingly slow and it costs so much that it seems like price gouging.” Undaunted, he attempted to download some indie games through both Steam and Direct2Drive. It was a no-go on both fronts. Yet the airmen wasn’t about to let a little thing like that prevent him enjoying Supergiant’s download-only Bastion.
12 years ago
Awesomenauts gets artsy in new video
Sheriff Lonestar is brought to life in this latest video look at Ronimo Games’ Awesomenauts. The time elapsed footage shows one of the game’s artists turning Lonestar …
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12 years ago
The Behemoth is changing things up in BattleBlock Theater
Back in 2006, The Behemoth’s wildly popular XBLA game Castle Crashers was neither celebrated nor an Xbox 360 game; it was the rough and bumpy shell of itself seen in the footage above. The guys behind what was then a GameCube game weren’t satisfied with it, and so they went “back to the drawing board.”
12 years ago
A handful of new Bang Bang Racing screens
Digital Reality has released five new screenshots of its XBLA, PSN and PC top-down racer, Bang Bang Racing. The game features nine tracks and twenty cars in four classes: racing muscle cars, stock car series, world endurance championship and formula one open wheels cars. Take a look at the game in action in the gallery.