Originally Posted by wraggster More than 50,000 copies of haunting PC adventure Dear Estherwere sold in its first week on sale, developer Dan Pinchbeck has confirmed. Thechineseroom's game, which began life as a Half-Life 2 mod, was released on February 14 and recouped The Indie Fund's £30,000 investment in the game in five and a half hours. In a post on the game's official site Pinchbeck reveals that those strong initial sales continued throughout its first week on Steam. "The game has been successful far beyond ...
Originally Posted by wraggster Free-to-play mech game receives $10m in funding Meteor Entertainment has raised $10 million in funding for free-to-play online mech-'em-up Hawken. Meteor's subsidiary studio, Adhesive Games, is currently developing Hawken for release on 12 December, 2012. Backers include Benchmark Capital and Firstmark Capital, both early funders of the free-to-play blockbuster League of Legends. “We are seeing the rise of the direct-to-consumer model, where all is downloadable ...
Originally Posted by wraggster As much as I'd like to feel sorry for the decimation of Cybertron, home of my childhood heroes, developer High Moon studios left me craving even more destruction with Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. Transformers: Fall of Cybertron takes place during the final hours of a civil war that eventually destroys the planet. The Decepticons have won, ...
Originally Posted by wraggster Capcom's classic Darkstalkers 3 will soon save vampires via the PlayStation Network, assuming that we're correctly inferring the ESRB's recently administered Teen rating for PlayStation 3 and Vita versions of the title. We suppose it's not a physical impossibility that Capcom would rerelease boxed versions of a 14 year old fighter, but we're hedging our bets on digital distribution. Originally ...
Originally Posted by wraggster Pokemon Black and White 2 has just been announced on Pokemon Smash, an official Pokemon television program in Japan. The sequel to Pokemon Black and White will launch for the DS in Japan this June. No further specifics are yet available regarding North American availability, new Pokemon or any battle-system changes that may occur. This will be the first numbered sequel to a traditional ...