Majesco Entertainment Company announced at PAX that they are forming a new publishing label called Midnight City which is catered towards indie developers. Casey Lynch, former Editor-in-Chief of IGN, and Doug Kennedy, former President and CEO of Reverb Communications and Reverb Publishing, will be leading the label.
Along with the announcement of the formation of Midnight City, Majesco revealed the first ten titles that will be published under the new label.
Free to Play drag racing game Racing Rivals was released on iTunes today. Drag racing is a short race where two drivers will race down a straight track in a head to head competition. In Racing Rivals, players will be able to customize and tune their race cars and compete with players around the world. Players can race for in game currency and cars. The vehicle line up includes over 40 licensed vehicles from big names like Honda, McLaren, and BMW.
Racing Rivals is created by Cie Games, the team behind Car Town. It is available for free for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch on iTunes.
Capsule Computers and Groupees have teamed up to release the second Capsule Computers Indie Bundle. The bundle contains 8 great games with two awesome bonuses.
Once 5000 bundles are sold, all buyers will receive a copy of Cognition: Episode 2 – The Wise Monkey. The two highest buyers will be rewarded for their generosity with a Roccat Kone XTD mouse kindly donated by Roccat.
10% of the profits will once again go to benefit the Australian Red Cross who provides important relief efforts in Australia and around the world.
For those staring at their preloaded copy of Total War: Rome II on Steam wondering when their copy will unlock, Sega and Creative Assembly has announced all copies will be unlocked at one time at Midnight, PDT on September 3rd, 2013. You can use a time zone converter to figure out the your local time. The game will have a day one patch that needs to be downloaded. The patch contains extra game content such as a new playable faction.
Total War: Rome II is the follow up to the popular strategy game Rome: Total War that was released in 2004. The new game positions the player in the most dangerous place in Ancient Rome, leadership. Players will lead their armies into battle as Rome spreads its might throughout the world, while they mold Rome to match their vision. Be careful though, a large percentage of Roman Emperors met untimely ends at the hands of those who they considered friends.
Much like in Blizzard’slargest title to date, World of Warcraft, whenever there is a new expansion, there is a rather large patch to come just before it. Diablo 3 will be getting a 2.0 patch that will completely overhaul the game in order to prepare for new items, abilities, and areas.
The patch however, will affect all players, even the ones who don’t feel the need to tread into the story of Malthael. Kevin Martens (Lead content designer for Diablo 3) explained all of the features that will be incorporated into every players game play.
These features include but are not limited to:
The new loot
The new item types
The new legendary affixes
The new gem type, which is diamond
All of the changes to the rules
The smart drop system
The targeted drop system
After that, there were two possible features announced to go towards all players.
These features include but are not limited to :
Loot runs
Paragon
Martens also explained that all of the content, the level cap increase, the higher level items, new abilities and runes, and new passives, will be a Reaper of Souls exclusive. Blizzard also mentioned that the new loot system is a rather significant piece of the expansion. They said that it is a way to take players away from the auction house, and getting them back out into the battlefield.
Rockstar‘s ‘official trailer’ for Grand Theft Auto V just debuted on Rockstar Newswire and the GTA V site. So now we know that Trevor returns to ‘torture Michael over mistakes he made a decade ago’ as the rich member of the trio sees it. But of course, he does give in to his old ways. If it were me, I wouldn’t listen to Trevor…hell, I never would have become friends with him in the first place!
Developer Spiders Studio and publisher Focus Home Interactive have made an official announcement, in regards to their new RPG, Bound by Flame; to be released early 2014 on PC, Xbox 360, PS3 and PS4. Bound by Flame is a fascinating and enticing action game, that gives possessed players the choice between embracing the powers offered by their flame demon or keeping their humanity.
Players can expect the following list of features in Bound by Flame, including:
Replayability: based on the player’s choices in the game, some chapters will offer different scenarios and experiences.
Impressive and dynamic real-time battles; players can specialise their performance by unlocking powers through 3 different skill trees.
Impressive bestiary: shadow dragons, liches, undead, ice creatures and epic confrontations abound (see screenshots in the gallery below).
Dangers and enemies in battle, will be temptations to acquire more power by giving up part of the hero’s soul to the demon.
Character customisation: gender, facial characteristics and transformation of the hero, also influence the demon’s appearance.
Crafting system for players to create and improve equipment, including their armour and weapons.
Several companions will join quest, although player’s actions determine whether they develop friendship or rivalry.
Interested in finding out which path you are bound to take? Check out the official Bound by Flame site herefor more insights into the game!
Gun Monkeys was released June 28th, 2013, and it’s gotten wonderful reviews so far. To put it simply, it is a physics-based, online death-match platform game, coming from Size Five Games. Upon release, the game found a flaw. Due to the fact that it is a multiplayer indie game, there were not many players at first. Dan Marshall, head developer of Gun Monkeys, had an idea to change this. He decided that once one person buys they game, over time they can receive up to a maximum of three free steam keys to give to their friends, making the online community much more lively.
The game its self generates the steam keys when at low populations. I feel that this is a brilliant move on Dan’s part, and possibly other indie multiplayer developers in the future will follow in this path. You can pick up the game Gun Monkeys on Steam for $5.99 and there is a high chance you’ll get multiple free copies of the game to give to your friends. It is currently available on PC and Mac, with cross-platform multiplayer.
Following Rayman Origins, our heroes take a 100-year nap, allowing nightmares to infest the Glade of Dreams. Once Rayman awakes from this mysterious sleep, he must set off on a new adventure with his friends to restore order in the universe.
Along with the classic Rayman platforming, Legends also adds rhythm based music stages. During these levels, players will jump and punch their way through obstacles whilst accompanied by their very own soundtrack. Each action taken will sync up with the backtrack, giving each level its own flow. Along with the audio, Legends is set to boost the visual via an improved lighting system and updated rendering, bringing the games beyond Origins. If playing on the Wii U, a fifth player can join in on the fun and assist by playing as Murfy the Fairy via the unique GamePad controller. Players will be able to cut ropes, activate mechanisms, gather Lums and even hold enemies in order to aid their friends.
To celebrate the launch of the game, Ubisoft has also released an app titled Rayman Legends Beatbox. This app takes the fans further into the universe of the game by allowing them, through simple drag and drop gameplay, to play with parts of the game’s soundtrack in two different modes: Legendary Mode and Creation Mode. Legendary Mode contains three music tracks to play with from Rayman Legends. Each song is split into six instrumental parts, which the player can choose to activate or deactivate for varying effects. Creation Mode, however, allows players to create their own songs from a library of instruments and melodies. The app features five categories of instruments and up to six sounds per instrument from Rayman’s universe for players to record their own creation, and then to share with their friends.
The Game Bakers have just made a major announcement regarding their hit iOS and Android brawler game Combo Crew. They have officially confirmed that Capcom’s legendary character Viewtiful Joe will be joining the fight in Combo Crew as a new playable character.
For a small in app purchase of $1.99 you can play as the legend himself, Viewtiful Joe. You can also pick up Combo Crew now at 50% discount of $0.99 on the iTunes store and Google Play store to celebrate the inclusion of Joe.
To check out Joe in action, check out the Viewtiful Joe trailer for Combo Crew below. Be sure to pick up the game now and duke it out as the Viewtiful one.
