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Going Loud Studios is proud to announce that “DLC Quest” is now available on Steam for both Windows and Mac. To celebrate the successful Greenlight campaign, “DLC Quest” hits with a brand new second campaign, “Live Freemium or Die!”, as well as achievements and leaderboards. “Live Freemium or Die” is also available as a standalone title on Xbox LIVE Indie Games, launching today. Read the rest of this entry »

The LEGO video games have a history of entertaining people of all ages with their fun game play, unique style and universal humour. LEGO City Undercover stays true to this winning formula, but is the first and only LEGO game to also take full advantage of the revolutionary second-screen game play of the Wii U GamePad controller. Launching today exclusively for Wii U™, LEGO City Undercover is a one-of-a-kind experience that will appeal to the entire family. Read the rest of this entry »

We ventured to Vancouver last Thursday (along with my noxious cold & flu bugs) for a half-hour video interview with members of the Next Level Games dev team about the upcoming Nintendo 3DS title Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, which is scheduled for release on March 24th. In this new game, players will guide Luigi through massive ghost-infested mansions on an action-packed hunt for the pieces of the Dark Moon. Armed with the ghost-sucking Poltergust 5000 and other new gadgets, you’ll have to capture ghosts, solve puzzles, and battle monster-sized bosses. Besides Luigi, the game features Professor E. Gadd and his crew of Toads on the “good” side, while on the bad side we have a nice collection of ghost characters – Hiders, Slammers, Greenies, Gobbers, Poltergeists and Polterpups – along with the infamous Boo and that royal baddy, King Boo. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft^® announced details of five different options for Tom Clancy’s™ Splinter Cell^® Blacklist Collectors Editions, available exclusively in EMEA territories for the Xbox 360®, PlayStation®3 and Windows PC. Read the rest of this entry »

Available to download from today, the Year of The Snake add-on pack extends the story of Square Enix and United Front Games’ undercover cop drama, Sleeping Dogs, with a series of all-new, action-packed police missions set immediately after the main game. Year of the Snake features four new Achievements/Trophies and will be available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC from today, priced at 560MSP or $6.99. Year of the Snake sees Wei Shen’s story continue as he rejoins the ranks of the Hong Kong Police Department, only to be caught up in chaos. A vicious doomsday cult is taking root in the back streets of Hong Kong… the Cult of the Snake. Hell-bent on cleansing the city of its evils, they cannot be negotiated with as they pursue a murderous path to their righteous salvation. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft invites gamers to discover the new and devastating powers that Assassin’s Creed III hero Ratonhnhaké:ton will use as he faces a new enemy, King George Washington in Assassin’s Creed III’s “The Tyranny of King Washington” DLC.  Invoke the power of the wolf to stalk enemies invisibly, and call on wolf packs to take down your foes.  Use these special skills to defeat this new threat to freedom.  “The Tyranny of King Washington,” is an all-new single-player campaign told through three episodic content packs that lets gamers experience an alternate history of the events following the American Revolution. Read the rest of this entry »

Independent Montreal studio Red Barrels has announced that its first title – PC survival-horror experience Outlast – will be playable for the first time as part of the PAX East Indie MegaBooth in Boston, March 22-24. Attendees will be given a chance to walk the corridors of Mount Massive Asylum in the shoes of investigative reporter Miles Upshur as he tries to escape the evils that roam the complex’s halls. Red Barrels will be located in the Indie MegaBooth on the PAX East show floor, booth 776. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft^® has announced its lineup for PAX East, including Assassin’s Creed^® IV Black Flag™, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell^® Blacklist™, Watch Dogs™ and a number of acclaimed digital, PC and iOS titles. Attendees can check out Ubisoft’s lineup at booths 824 and 836 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center on March 22-24, 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

Thwacke, a group of researchers and scientists providing insights to the gaming industry, and Red Barrels, an independent game developer based in Montreal, have announced a partnership through which Thwacke is contributing real-world data on mental illness and how humans experience terror to create an authentic survival-horror experience in Outlast, set in the Mount Massive Insane Asylum. Read the rest of this entry »

Eidos-Montréal®, a part of Square Enix Europe and the award winning studio behind the critically acclaimed Deus Ex: Human Revolution®, has officially unveiled THIEF™ for PC, PlayStation®4, and other next generation consoles. THIEF is a reinvention of a franchise that helped define an entire genre of games, and is scheduled for a 2014 release. Read the rest of this entry »