Diablo III gets a release date
Mark May 15 on your calendar and make arrangements to stow the kids at the babysitter's for 30 hours or so, because that's when Diablo III is finally coming to PC and Mac.
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Sunside Games to release Crow’s Radiance engine as free open-source software
Sunside Games, the studio behind the upcoming iOS title Crow, will be releasing the game's Radiance engine as open-source software in the near future.
Play air hockey against your kitty with You vs. Cat for the iPad
The cats have taken over our beds, sprawled out on our favorite sections of the couch, and bogarted those rare, tiny patches of sunlight that seep into our houses in the dead of winter. Now cats are getting into video games, starting with You vs. Cat for the iPad. Will this madness--this fuzzy, whiskered, pink-nosed madness--never end?
Kickstarter Picks: Wasteland 2
Before Fallout, there was Wasteland. Wasteland was a role-playing game that was released for the PC in the late '80s, and it's still celebrated amongst industry veterans for being ahead of its time. Players frolicked through a sandbox-style world (but not for too long: radiation is murder on the hair), and made tough moral choices that actually had consequences. And now one of the original creators behind Wasteland and Fallout, Brian Fargo, hopes that he can fund development of Wasteland 2 via Kickstarter.
Double Fine Kickstarter concludes with over $3 million raised
The Kickstarter for Tim Schafer's Double Fine Adventure project has concluded, and it's a resounding success. The final tally: $3,335,265 from 87, 138 backers.
Onimusha Soul coming to browsers in June
Capcom's Onimusha series hasn't seen much love since the 2006 release of Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams for the PlayStation 2. That's all set to change in a big, social way. Capcom recently announced that Onimusha Soul, the company's first-ever browser-based game, is coming in June.
Tap Paradise Cove Review
All of us harbor fantasies about striking out from our lives of concrete and steel in order to settle on a deserted tropical island. Of course, most of us come down from those dreams pretty quickly, because we understand the reality of an isolated, primitive lifestyle. Wild animals would attack, there'd be ceaseless, torrential rain, and it'd simply be a matter of time before the island's inhabitants went all "Lord of the Flies" on each other.
This week in gaming news: March 9, 2012
GDC 2012 has come and gone. We're reminded, once again, of what a weird and wonderful industry we work in. The App Store now boasts over 25 billion served, Google gave the Android Market a name change, people buzzed about Valve making a game console, and Valve said "No we're not." Finally, if you return to World of Warcraft, Blizzard will give you a flying animal. Think about it!
