EA’s SimCity did not get off to a good start. EA and Maxis decided that you had to be online to play the game. That’s increasingly common these days. It’s an anti-piracy technique mainly but some games do just have online built in. The problem? EA’s servers couldn’t cope. You couldn’t actually play the game. […]
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Ultima creator attempts RPG return with Shroud of the Avatar
This week has been a busy one for cRPG news on Kickstarter. We’ve had Torment: Tides of Numenera race to $1,000,000 in just 7 hours on Kickstarter already. Now there’s another big name cRPG franchise asking for a fresh million with Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues. Even if you’re out of juice for any […]
Amazon suspend SimCity downloads, blaming EA
In an unusual twist Amazon have suspended downloads of SimCity and issued a warning about EA’s servers. In effect they’re saying; you could buy this from us but you’ll not be able to play it and then you’ll be angry at us. Instead, they’re making it clear the problem sits firmly with EA and their […]
Torment: Tides of Numenera breaks Ouya’s $1m record
Brian Fargo and Monte Cook’s Torment: Tides of Numenera has raised more than $1,000,000 and it took less than 7 hours. It funded, hitting the $900,000 mark, in about six hours. Back in July Kickstarter published top 10 quickest campaigns to hit $1m and it is closer than you might think. The Ouya, the tiny […]
What does one life matter? Torment: Tides of Numenera kickstarts
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera/ [Back this Campaign] Planescape: Torment was awesome. The buzz when “Numenera: Torment” was announced was very loud indeed. Today the inevitable has happened the team up Brian Fargo and Monte Cook has launched on Kickstarter. The game is called Torment: Tides of Numenera and it’s asking for $900,000. $900,000 is a lot. While I […]
Regulators clear Activision Blizzard over any Nuketown 2025 wrong doing
UK regulators have found that Activision Blizzard did nothing wrong in how they advertised and later handled the pre-order bonus of the Nuketown 2025 bonus map for Call of Duty: Black Ops II for the Xbox. The authorities received official complaints about the advertising which argued that the map had been withdrawn too soon after […]
First screen shots from Space Hulk
Late last year Full Controll announced a deal with Games Workshop to produce both computer and mobile versions of a Space Hulk game. At the time it sounded very interesting as it offered cross-platform support. In other words, you could use your PC to play with friends on their iPads. Today we have the first […]
Top 7 Most Realistic Cities in Minecraft
John runs MinePick.com. MinePick is a listing service for Minecraft, a site lets players find servers, see which is busy, the status of any given server (online or offline) and the type of game. The site makes use of a plugin called Votifier which allows server owners to reward players who help promote the game […]
Gas Powered Games cancel million dollar Wildman RPG Kickstarter
At the start of the year Gas Powered Games wanted $1,100,000 to fund the Wildman RPG. It as going to be a mix of RTS with RPG. The update is brief and worrying; At this point, it makes sense for us to focus our attention on other ways to keep Gas Powered Games running. That’s […]
Tabletop Forge merges into Roll20
This may be the first Google Hangout merger of note but it won’t be the last. The virtual tabletop system Tabletop Forge will close – the app has a month left of life. Joshuha Owen’s popular system raised nearly $50,000 in Kickstarter and has an impressive 12,000 gamers in Google+ Circles. Owen will be joining […]
