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Originally Posted by wraggster

The firm behind upcoming free game Hawken has scored an extra $18m in VC funding.
And it says it can use the money to quickly build an audience of over 10m players.
The PC?title from Meteor Entertainment is due for a global roll out on December 12th, and this week closed a second round of funding.
Hawken is the antithesis of blockbusters like Call of Duty. New studio Adhesive built it using the Unreal engine and paired with an equally new publisher to launch the game.
The

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Originally Posted by wraggster

A third piece of downloadable content has been announced for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
It’s called Dragonborn and will be released on December 4^th. It will cost 1,600 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live.
A debut trailer can be seen below and suggests that the content will very much return to the epic scale and dramatic sensibilities of the game’s core offering. Note the dragon riding.
The first Skyrim DLC was called Dawnguard and was released on May 1^st. It concentrated on vampires

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Last week, Cave Story's ESRB rating was updated to include new platforms: PS2, PS3, Vita, and Xbox 360 in addition to the existing 3DS, DSi, Wii, and PSP ratings. We contacted developer and publisher Nicalis to determine whether to expectCave Story on even more platforms than it's already on.

In short, no. The ESRB ratings are not indication of definite plans. "We submitted all the consoles so that we

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Originally Posted by wraggster

First Star Software and HeroCraft have announced plans to co-publish Boulder Dash-XL on iOS devices, which will launch "soon" for $2.99. The latest game in the long-running series was last seen on XBLA in July 2011.

The core gameplay, according to HeroCraft, will remain the same as always: players race through caves while collecting diamonds and defeating enemies.Boulder Dash-XL for

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Vanillaware's Muramasa: The Demon Blade is one of the best looking games available for the Wii. From the looks of the screens below it's going to look pretty stunning on the PS Vita too.


http://www.computerandvideogames.com...all-but-sweet/