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Funcom is thrilled to invite thousands of gamers from all over the world into the bowels of hell itself, in the third Beta Weekend for the company’s highly anticipated modern-day massively multiplayer online game ‘The Secret World’. Starting on June 15^th at 9am PDT and ending on June 17^th at 11.59pm PDT, gamers will be able to explore a wealth of new content that was not available in the two previous Beta Weekends, including the Dragon and Illuminati starter experiences. Read the rest of this entry »

Snowed In Studios is excited to announce the release of their first title, Monster Chase. Monster Chase is an exciting and fun way for kids to increase concentration and memory as well as improve cognitive ability. Monster Chase is available for iOS through iTunes, Android through Google Play, and Windows Phone in the Marketplace for only $0.99. Read the rest of this entry »

Games for mobile are much like music, they’re consumable ‘re-usables’. As with music, no one listens to just one song over and over, they have a library of albums from their favorite artists and genres that they consume and re-consume. But unlike a song or album, a game can keep evolving with new levels and new game play strongly enhanced by music. Read the rest of this entry »

Ontario-based mobile game and application publisher Touch Village has announced that their acclaimed action-arcade game, Chin Up, is now available for download on the Amazon Appstore. Chin Up stars Mr. Chin, a nimble construction worker under siege by a torrential downpour of the most bizarre items to ever fall on a construction site, such as a variety of food products, living creatures (fish, dogs, cats, horses), along with a few more gruesome items. Read the rest of this entry »

EA Sports gives players more insight and a close up look at the next iteration of the NHL videogame franches. In the first video, join Andrew Johnson, Sean Ramjagsingh and Dean Richards at E3 2012 as they discuss a major innovation for EA SPORTS NHL 13 – Hockey IQ, designed to capture the true flow of today’s NHL. Read the rest of this entry »

Check out the cover of Max Payne 3 Issue #2: “Hoboken Blues” – the middle chapter of this three part comic series produced by Marvel – which will be available as a free download via the Max Payne 3 Official Site on Tuesday, June 12th (look for it at additional digital comic outlets shortly thereafter). Read the rest of this entry »

Step into the action like never before! Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment have announced Batman: Arkham City™ Armored Edition for the Wii U™ system from Nintendo. Developed by WB Games Montréal, the game delivers the same impactful story and gameplay of the award-winning blockbuster created by Rocksteady Studios, now with enhanced gameplay features made possible with the Wii U and the new controller.  The game is scheduled for release holiday 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

Paramount Pictures and leading video game publisher and developer NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. have given fans the first look at the key villain to be featured in the upcoming Star Trek™ video game inspired by J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek (2009) film reboot. The announcement made at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), revealed that a legendary lizard-like race known in Trek lore as “The Gorn” will play the destructive and villainous role in the video game releasing in early 2013. The co-op game is based on a standalone storyline that continues the adventure of iconic characters Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock as they work together to stop the Gorn, an enemy race bent on conquering the galaxy. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft invites you to go beyond the reach of civilization lies a lawless island ruled by violence. This is where you find yourself stranded, caught in a bloody conflict between the island’s psychotic warlords and indigenous rebels. Struggling to survive, your only hope of escape is through the muzzle of a gun. Read the rest of this entry »

Go beyond Sony Picture Entertainment’s Colombia Pictures feature film and find out what happens next in The Amazing Spider-Man^TM video game, which brings Spider-Man’s free-roaming, web-slinging action back to New York City.  Beenox Studios is polishing up the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, PC and 3DS versions of the game for its June 26th release, while Other Ocean developed The Amazing Spider-Man for Nintendo DS. Read the rest of this entry »