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Star Trek has mostly managed to avoid licensed game pitfalls if nothing else. While not uniformly triumphant examples of the medium, Star Trek games from Klingon Academy to Star Trek Armada through Voyager Elite Force have been well crafted, quality releases. And by the sound of it, so will the … [Read more...] about Star Trek Movie Tie-In Not Your Usual Licensed Game, Not Going The Aliens: Colonial Marines Route

Straight Right, known for porting Mass Effect 3 to the Wii U, are busily bringing another major franchise to Nintendo's pride and joy according to the Australian certification board, which has re-listed the game. The Square Enix project is widely believed to be the Wii U version of the successful … [Read more...] about Deus Ex Human Revolution Has Good Chance Of Coming To Wii U

Following the high-profile court case and subsequent settlement between EA and Activision, Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment Co-Founder Jason West is no longer with the company. This has been the case since May, just after the case ended, with West citing "family issues" as the reason for his … [Read more...] about Respawn Entertainment Co-Founder Jason West Quit The Company A Year Ago

Tecmo Koei Canada is closing its doors at the end of the month after twelve years. Initially a graphical asset production house, the outfit transitioned into a fully fledged developer with ill-fated first release Fatal Inertia for the Xbox 360. The studio eventually transitioned into the mobile … [Read more...] about Tecmo Koei Canada Shutting Down End Of March

Crytek chief Cevat Yerli has previously discussed the reasons why the company's latest title, Crysis 3, hadn't made it to Nintendo's latest console despite the latter's newfound graphical prowess. The lack of a business arrangement between publisher EA and platform holder Nintendo was blamed, but … [Read more...] about Crysis 3 Was Running On Wii U, Was This Close To Seeing Release

Mass Effect 2 and 3 writer Mac Walters is penning the newest Mass Effect comic, which will be running for twelve issues. The interesting angle is that the writers will try to tackle narrative threads that were left off or only just suggested by the games and bring them to satisfying … [Read more...] about Mass Effect: Foundation Comic To Expand On Game Universe

Despite WiiWare's troubled history with the very indie developers it was set up to cater to, the online shop for Nintendo's aging original Wii will be seeing the release of one of this year's best received indie games - Retro City Rampage. Much like the infamous MDK 2 release which made the … [Read more...] about Retro City Rampage Coming To WiiWare As $20K Gift For Fans

Japan and other Asian territories have long been held up as the bellwether for player behavior in the West. Trends like free-to-play, social gaming, and trading card games, to name a few, rose to prominence in Japan before exploding everywhere else. This makes the fact that Monster Hunter, one of … [Read more...] about Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Getting Capcom Push For Western Appeal

Despite not being shown anything of Beyond at Sony's recent PlayStation event (likely because this is a PlayStation 3 game for the moment) despite game director David Cage's presence on stage, Beyond is apparently getting an October release. Chances are Beyond will see a PS4 port before too long … [Read more...] about Beyond: Two Souls From Heavy Rain Developer To See October Release

The Nintendo Wii's self-proclaimed best-looking FPS is coming to Tegra devices. The game made waves when it managed to harness last generation's least capable console to produce impressive results from a visual standpoint. Convergence between home console and mobile game visuals has been well on the … [Read more...] about Conduit HD Wii FPS Coming To Android

Thatgamecompany and Journey developer Kelee Santiago has climbed aboard the good ship Ouya. So seemingly have the rest of indiedom as significant support has been announced for the platform. Santiago is joining in a rather more concrete sense, however, under the title of full-time "developer's best … [Read more...] about Ouya Snaps Up Journey & Flower Developer Kelee Santiago

Despite Double Fine mostly self-publishing after its resounding Kickstarter success, it wasn't long ago that the company released games mostly through publishers. THQ being one of them, when the company went bankrupt and was sold, the console distribution rights for Stacking and Costume Quest went … [Read more...] about Double Fine Hoping To Get Back Costume Quest, Stacking Rights After THQ Sale