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Quarrel Xbox Live Arcade release date
Celebrated iPhone puzzle game Quarrel arrives on Xbox Live Arcade next Wednesday, 25th January, publisher UTV Ignition has announced. Quarrel merges, to…
Indie Fund recoups Q.U.B.E. $90k investment in 4 days
Indie Fund, a group of indie game developers who provide an ‘angel’-style funding source for other indie game makers, has recouped its…
DeNA, NetDragon form new Chinese localizing social games studio
Chinese online/mobile game developer and operator NetDragon revealed today that it is set to form a new social games studio with Tokyo-based…
Rockstar hiring for “next-gen console” project
Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar is currently hiring staff for an unannounced project on “next-gen consoles”. An advert on Rockstar’s website called…
Usability evaluation for video games: Formal evaluation methods
[In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, European University Cyprus’s Georgios Christou continues his discussion on video game usability evaluation by looking at…
Be Bad: Dead Island’s Ryder White DLC
It’s a frequent lament that we rarely get to play bad guys in an interesting way. There’s another hope on the horizon,…
IGF Factor 2012: Antichamber
Next up in our series of chats with this year’s Independent Games Festival finalists is Alexander Bruce, creator of ‘psychological exploration puzzle…
“A Call for Communication (Half-Life)” Steam Group passes 10,000 members
More than 10,000 gamers have joined the Steam Group campaigning for more Half-Life communication from Valve. In other words, fans want to…
Nintendo won’t fix Mario Kart 7 track glitch
A major glitch in one of Mario Kart 7’s tracks will remain unfixed, Nintendo has said. Mario Kart 7 players discovered an…
NPD: Behind the numbers of 2011
After three straight months of gains according to the sales-tracking NPD Group, the U.S. retail video game industry pulled back in December…
Hero Academy Review
Hero Academy – the new iOS game from the ex-Ensemble team at Robot Entertainment – is a nice piece of game design,…
Super Mario Bros. Crossover gets a makeover in Version 2.0
The 2.0 update for Super Mario Bros. Crossover, coming in Q1 2012, gives the homemade blend-em-up a bit more flash and a…
A World of Keflings can’t decide: Candy, pirates or graveyard DLC
A World of Keflings developer NinjaBee has some new DLC in the works, but it isn’t sure what kind yet. NinjaBee wants…
Q.U.B.E. moves 12K copies in first four days, recouping full Indie Fund investment
Beyond being a game we’re quite fond of, Q.U.B.E. is also profitable as of right now. Well, okay, a little bit before…
TXB Preview Hands On With NeverDead
We've played the first 45 minutes of Konami's NeverDead. Check out our impressions inside….
The Top Wii and Wii U Games of 2012
Nintendo surprises on both old and new consoles this year….
Rumor Patrol: Faster iPad 3 Coming in March
The latest reports claim that the next iPad 3 will be bringing a faster processor, better screen and LTE support, with manufacturers…
‘Monkey Quest: Thunderbow’ Review – Who Knew Nickelodeon Made Good Games?
A tie-in for a Nickolodeon-developed MMO, Monkey Quest: Thunderbow is a physics puzzle game with tons of flair and tight level design…