And Notch is bolder than I thought. The “game” will officially deploy on 11/11/11, the same day as Bethesda’s much anticipated Skyrim. In addition, the next update (1.5) will add weather effects.  You can read the official anoucement here.
Does anyone else think this is a risky move? Or is there …

It might be too much to say that I feel bad for Hi-Rez, but it seems like they’ve been continually making Global Agenda freer and freer. First they removed the monthly subscription in favor of an incremental-expansion model akin to Guild Wars’. They just sent out an announcement today proclaiming …

Hi. I’m Syn, and this is my corner. I want to talk about games. To be more exact, with each of these articles, I would like to take a specific title and use it as a point of analysis of its underlying ideas or mechanics, almost as if it were …

Nintendo of Japan recently unveiled a new trailer for the Wii game, Pandora’s Tower. The game looks like a mix of character action and Eastern game design hair feathering. Slated for a May 26, 2011 release, Pandora’s Tower will be hitting Japanese Wiis very soon. Nintendo of America remains quiet …

Just a heads up for all of you Super Meat Boy fanatics like myself, the new update is live on Steam. It includes the Super Meat World level portal, which is basically a compendium of custom made levels and chapters designed by users and other dev teams, in addition to …

So when’s the last time you played a game resembling MechWarrior? In all likelihood it’s either been a few years or you’ve never even heard of the series to begin with.  Regardless, there’s an indie game company out in Los Angeles, California called Adhesive Games that appears to be on …

The upcoming rhythm, shooting, action, color-and-light odyssey of the mind, Child of Eden has a new trailer which is sure delight at least six of your senses. The hotly-anticipated Kinect title from Tetsuya Mizuguchi, creator of Rez and Lumines, is an audio-visual exploration of his vision for the future of …

Capcom appears to be stuck in the past when it comes to the Resident Evil series. Two years after the release of Resident Evil 5, everything on the RE radar seems to be revolving around re-releases and going back to the long destroyed Raccoon City.  Resident Evil 4 and Code …

Hooray for trans-media. The marketing team over at Zenimax Bethesda seems to be trying to hit all bases with RAGE–a comic book series via Dark Horse and now a newly announced novelization through Del Rey. It’s only a matter of time before the RAGE serialized television show comes about, followed …

When I got notified through Steam’s RSS feed that the DarkSpore Beta was on, it got me mildly excited. I have no real preconceptions about this game, save for the fact that it seems sort of like Defense of the Ancients and Diablo put together, but with more tentacles or …