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Shortly after launching the Steam Community Market, which allows users to sell in-game items for Steam Wallet funds, Valve has introduced a new Steam Community service. This new feature, called Game Guides, enables players to create and post their own walkthroughs. These guides can include … [Read more...] about Valve Launching GameFAQ-Like Steam Service Game Guides

Konami's rabidly anticipated tactical espionage slice'em up, "Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance," will be playable in demo form in January on Xbox and PSN. The title is, at Hideo Kojima's request, jointly developed by Kojima Productions, who are handling narrative and cinematic direction, and Platinum … [Read more...] about Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Demo Coming Next Month

Capcom is certainly doing a few things differently when it comes to the new Devil May Cry. Not only will the game be released after the holidays instead of being crammed in with the December crowd, but its PC launch is coming only ten days after the Xbox 360 and PS3. Porting duties are handled by … [Read more...] about Devil May Cry Coming To PC January 25th 2013

Nintendo has implemented a demo usage counter for the Wii U and 3DS, with each publisher offered the possibility to set their own limits. This means a downloaded demo can now only be played a limited number of times (ten in FIFA13's case) before the player is prevented from launching the demo and … [Read more...] about Wii U Demos To Have Usage Limits Set By Publishers

Multiplayer servers hosted by Gamespy for a number of popular older games went down last week, leading to outcries from loyal fan communities. When Sniper Elite was affected, developer Rebellion released an open statement placing the blame squarely at the feet of new Gamespy owners Glu, citing … [Read more...] about Gamespy Server Shutdown Not Unannounced, According To Glu

So it turns out apart from just giant robots fighting giant sea monsters, Stringer Bell from The Wire and Jax from Sons of Anarchy, Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim will also feature GlaDOS of Portal fame. Not only will actress Ellen McLain be voicing an AI in the film, but the same filter and … [Read more...] about Portal’s GlaDOS Appearing In Guillermo Del Toro Monster Film “Pacific Rim” (Trailer)

Some of you may remember superhero bureaucracy game Middle Manager of Justice from its accidental release turned beta test a few months ago. No longer just an accident, the game has been properly released and is now frolicking happily on the App Store, being offered for the low, low price of … [Read more...] about Double Fine’s Middle Manager Of Justice Out Now

A new version of the popular Wii Homebrew Channel has been released for the Wii U, allowing it to install on both consoles. The Homebrew Channel allows Wii owners to play anything from emulated retro games to normally unsupported video file formats, as well as uniformly terrible homebrew … [Read more...] about Wii U Hacked To Run Wii Homebrew Channel

GameSpy, formerly one of the biggest PC multiplayer networks, is being removed from a group of older, but still very popular releases. GameSpy's sale to mobile developer/publisher Glu was apparently followed by a marked increase in service rates for multiplayer servers. Many developers were left … [Read more...] about GameSpy Getting Cut From Sniper Elite, Several Other Games

After suffering a minor delay, the Enhanced Edition of Black Isle's seminal classic Baldur's Gate is finally hitting the App Store's imaginary shelves. There is no dearth of RPGs playable on Apple's devices, a significant amount of which look and play better than this very oldest of school one. But … [Read more...] about Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition For iPad Out Now

Sony is finally getting its very own xbox.com in the form of a web version of its until now PlayStation-bound Sony Entertainment Store. The service offers the same films, TV shows, and more importantly, full downloads of retail games on release day as the console store, but is still in testing and … [Read more...] about Sony’s PlayStation Store Now Live On Web

The oft-forgotten bright side of the vast numbers of apps hitting Apple's digital store front every day is that some will push the boundaries and innovate. One such game is seemingly coming from Ngmoco Sweden, or Scattered Entertainment as it's been rather AAA-ishly branded, in the form of The … [Read more...] about The Drowning Is Ngmoco’s Console-Quality Free To Play FPS for iOS