The two-week long Xbox Live Indie Summer Uprising event will showcase a different Indie game every day for the next two weeks, and it kicks off today with Raventhorne, a side-scrolling viking beat-em up by Milkstone Sudios.
According to Eurogamer and the Square
Enix earnings reports, Square Enix has had a dreadfully bad year so
far, partly due to the problems with one of their entries in their
trademark “Final Fantasy” franchise, Final Fantasy XIV.
Now, many things could be said about
the “Final Fantasy” franchise at this point, or comments made about
Square Enix’s attempts to enter the MMO market. But what remains at
the end of the day is that Square Enix, even with their AAA titles of
“Kingdom Hearts” and “Final Fantasy,” is doing poorly this year.
Deck the halls with bags of pot, everyone’s favorite odd couple is back for a third round of medicated antics in A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (oh and Neil Patrick Harris may make an appearance). Also, Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler star in the Shakespearian war-drama Coriolanus (also directed by Fiennes) about an exiled war hero who aligns with his enemy to take back the city that wronged him. Puncture finds Captain
Conan
is called a barbarian for a reason. He is not your conventional hero;
he is a simple man with simple needs to ravage women, kill people, and
enjoy three square meals a day. But he is a bit of a brute and not so
hot to look at. This just got the Player Affinity staff thinking about the Hollywood heroes you would never want to rescue you from danger. Here are just a few of them.
NC Soft, the company behind City of Heroes, Guild Wars, Aion and Lineage showed off their new MMO today at Gamescom. It’s a sci-fi adventure set in outer space, and seems to emphasize humor and cartoony design over realism.
Fukunaga’s (Sin Nombre) gripping and photorealistic take on Jane Eyre, which arrives on DVD and Blu-ray today, doesn’t exactly provide an amazing revelation for bringing the story back to life, but it does prove that no classic can be so overdone that it becomes untouchable
Deus Ex: Human Revolution has been long in the making, with the last title in the series having been released in 2004, and development taking place over the course of 4 years. The legacy of the franchise and the long development time have led to certain expectations for the new first-person RPG, set to release August 23rd. Whether or not it will meet those expectations is a question that should be answered next week, but for now, let’s see what kind of game Human Revolution will be.
Sure, we’re all excited about Gears of War 3 next month, but remember that your Xbox also has an extensive library of lower profile games in the Xbox Live Arcade Indie section. Hard-working, talented people put some simple, yet great games for sale there often costing a mere dollar, and several Xbox Indie developers are launching a promotion to highlight the best of them. It’s called the Indie Games Summer Uprising, and it will showcase a different game each day for two weeks starting August 22nd.
Many a movie character has been made in the mold of the small-time crook. With that in mind, we’ve found 10 of the dumbest criminals to ever grace the silver screen.
It’s quite a surprise that the Dead Island trailer took the internet by storm in the way it did. The game being developed by Techland has been relatively unknown since it was first announced in 2008 and I don’t even think Techland expected their debut trailer to be as successful as it was.
