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March 11, 2013

“Halo 4” Castle Map Pack coming April 8

343 has just released the following details on the next Halo 4  map pack. Update: Screenshots are up on my […]…

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Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn DVD/Blu-ray bundle coming to Europe

A region two Blu-ray / DVD combo of the Halo 4 miniseries Forward Unto Dawn has been spotted on Amazon UK. If…

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Freebie Alert: ‘Knights of Pen & Paper’ Goes Free, Actual Pen and Paper Still Costs Money

Heads up pen and paper role-playing enthusiasts or just anyone looking for a quirky new adventure: you’re going to want to check…

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Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey concludes Kickstarter at $1.5M

Dreamfall Chapters’ $850,000 Kickstarter goal concluded at nearly twice that yesterday, with a final pledge count of $1,538,425. The 3D adventure game…

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Suda 51 ‘horny’ for PS4 possibilities

Suda 51’s most recent Famitsu column was written shortly after the Killer is Dead producer watched the PlayStation 4 reveal event, revealing…

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Never break flow – UI design in Driver: San Francisco

Driver: San Francisco is an exemplary game, argues Eric Swain, because its interface allows players to set their own pace, ensuring they’re…

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Learning not to blindly follow the analytics

Laralyn McWilliams (Free Realms) writes about how her cancer diagnosis taught her that metrics aren’t the answer to making better games, but…

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Tomb Raider PC patch addresses hairy Nvidia issues

Tomb Raider received a PC patch this weekend, with fixes for the Nvidia-associated stability issues high on the agenda. The patch notes…

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PS4 trailer tops YouTube’s February ad leaderboards

In unusual accolade news, this commercial compression of the PS4 reveal notched top spot in YouTube’s advert leaderboards last month. The leaderboards,…

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SimCity Is Inherently Broken, Let’s Not Let This Go

EA reports that SimCity is slowly getting into a state where it’s playable. Many of the launch issues are getting sorted, and…

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Zynga: "all games are derived from other games"

Social game make Zynga – often accused of ripping off other’s ideas – has insisted everyone copies everyone. “All games are derived…

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Would the real Ken Levine kindly stand up?

To reach the Boston HQ of Irrational Games, you walk from a subway station through a small park. At the far end…

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Tomb Raider ascends to the peak of this week’s UK charts

Lara Croft is the leader of the UK pack for the first time in nearly seven years, and she’s there in some…

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Happy Wars has two million cheerful warmongers

Free-to-play Xbox Live game Happy Wars has reached 2 million soldiers on its leaderboards, developer Toylogic announced today. “We always continue to…

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Get Pumped: PISTON Preordering Open At SXSW

Hey RPSers! I have had three cups of tea, EXCESSIVE amounts of sugar and have bags of energy for news today: and…

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Danish TV channel sorry for using Assassin’s Creed screenshot to illustrate Syria news report

Whoops! A Danish telly channel has been forced to apologise for using a screenshot of Assassin’s Creed as a backdrop for a…

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The Piston living room PC costs $1000, launching Holiday 2013

The Xi3 Corporation opened up pre-orders for its upcoming Piston game PC over the weekend, while detailing extra information about the device…

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UK chart: Tomb Raider biggest launch of the year so far

Tomb Raider is the UK’s biggest launch of the year so far.The reboot is in top spot, and, according to UK sales…

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