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Electronic Arts Inc. has announced the breakthrough features for EA Sports^TM NHL^®14 that are set to unleash the aggression, speed and skill of NHL hockey through the best technology of this console generation that EA Sports has to offer. Deliver game-changing hits with cutting-edge NHL® Collision Physics, built from EA Sports FIFA’s revolutionary Player Impact Engine. Drop the gloves with the all-new Enforcer Engine, powered by the same technology used in the critically acclaimed Fight Night franchise. Experience a new level of speed and control with the second season of the critically-acclaimed True Performance Skating engine, and dangle defenders with all-new One-Touch Dekes. In addition, fans can Live the Life of an NHL player in an all-new incarnation of the Be a Pro Career Mode, now featuring on and off-ice elements. NHL 14 will be available for Xbox 360^® and PlayStation^®3, and is scheduled for release on September 10, 2013 in North America and September 13, 2013 in Europe. Read the rest of this entry »

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment today announced Batman: Arkham Origins™ and Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate™, the next installments of the blockbuster Batman: Arkham videogame franchise. Developed by WB Games Montréal, Batman: Arkham Origins features an expanded Gotham City and introduces an original prequel storyline set several years before the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, the first two critically acclaimed games of the franchise. Read the rest of this entry »

Thwacke, a group of researchers and scientists providing insights to the gaming industry, and Red Barrels, an independent game developer based in Montreal, have announced a partnership through which Thwacke is contributing real-world data on mental illness and how humans experience terror to create an authentic survival-horror experience in Outlast, set in the Mount Massive Insane Asylum. Read the rest of this entry »

Paramount Pictures and leading video game publisher and developer Namco Bandai Partners UK have announced a pre-order and day-one purchase opportunity with all UK Game stores. The partnership allows any purchaser of Star Trek The Video Game on any format an exclusive complimentary ticket to this year’s hottest movie Star Trek Into Darkness, which releases in cinemas everywhere in May 2013. Star Trek The Video Game is currently in development at Digital Extremes. Read the rest of this entry »

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment have revealed details for the Injustice: Gods Among Us Battle Edition. The package will be available in limited quantities at Gamestop and EB Games stores located in the United States and Canada for Xbox 360® and PlayStation®3. Injustice: Gods Among Us Battle Edition is also confirmed to be available in North America beginning April 16 for Xbox 360, PS3 and the Nintendo Wii U™. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver’s Interdimensional Games Inc (iDGi) has revealed a brand new Intellectual Property,”Consortium” – that has been years in the making. A Kickstarter Campaign has been started, offering a great deal of detailed information about the project. For the past 3 years, through their Alternate Reality Game (A.R.G.), iDGi has been maintaining and developing the abilities of “iDGi-1,” an artificial satellite put into orbit in 2009 which allows for the exploration of an alternate universe. Read the rest of this entry »

Corey King, Chief Executive Artist of Winnipeg indie game developer ZenFri Inc. says that Google’s big reveal of its “secret project” – an augmented reality (AR) espionage game, “Ingress” that plays out in the real world – is proof positive that his company’s groundbreaking game in development for iOS and Android, “Clandestine: Anomaly” has global market potential.
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Kerberos Productions has released a playable Alpha Demo today for their first self-published title, “Sword of the Stars: The Pit” ahead of the beta release, which is expected later this month or early December. The Alpha Demo includes the Engineer, one of the game’s three playable Characters, a brief Tutorial, and five playable levels to explore, which include a good cross section of monsters, traps, and items. The full game, which will release with 30 playable levels, is considerably larger in scope. Read the rest of this entry »

Ontario’s Howling Moon Games, creator of Bloodlines of the Fallen: Anna’s Sacrifice, Molly Jones and House of Ooze, has launched a KickStarter fundraising campaign for its upcoming title SpaceCore, an extended tower defense game where players run a private galactic police force, taking the motto of “protect and serve” into space. Read the rest of this entry »

Ontario’s Big Impact Studios is excited to announce the dates for closed beta of its new social strategy MMORTS WorldAlpha, which is scheduled for release in March 2013.  In this persistent world, players will be working together to decide what society they are going to form, as no one player will be able to do it all. Some will be businessmen, others military and political leaders. They will work together, and use social strategy to ultimately decide the fate of WorldAlpha. The Alpha and Closed Beta dates are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »