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On May 31st, 505 Games and Behaviour Interactive made a very quiet announcement, which I missed because we were busy moving the Village Gamer house and office. My favourite dastardly bruin will be making an appearance this Fall in a new title, Naughty Bear: Panic On Paradise Island. Read the rest of this entry »

Brave: The Video Game, inspired by the Disney•Pixar movie “Brave” and developed by Behaviour Interactive, is now available for PlayStation®3, Xbox 360®, Nintendo Wii™, Nintendo DS™ and Windows PC/ MAC. Brave: The Video Game offers fans the chance to continue the story of the film and relive highlights from Merida’s heroic journey to undo a beastly curse before it’s too late. Players can go on new adventures and experience non-stop action as they run, jump and battle their way through the rugged landscape of mythical and mysterious Scotland. Read the rest of this entry »

For webslingers and gunslingers, Nintendo has three downloadable products for the 3DS this week. First up is a playable demo and 3D trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man, developed by Beenox. Also available is Mad Dog McCree, a full game from Digital Leisure. Read the rest of this entry »

Following the showing at E3 2012, Assassin’s Creed III takes to the frontier in a video walkthrough of one of the  demos shown at the conference last week. Commentated by creative director, Alex Hutchinson, the walkthrough of the frontier demo exemplifies the key pillars of the Assassin’s Creed franchise against the wild frontier setting demonstrating a slice of the massive open world scale of the Assassin’s Creed franchise.  Read the rest of this entry »

Ontario-based mobile game and application publisher Touch Village has announced that their acclaimed action-arcade game, Chin Up, is now available for download on the Amazon Appstore. Chin Up stars Mr. Chin, a nimble construction worker under siege by a torrential downpour of the most bizarre items to ever fall on a construction site, such as a variety of food products, living creatures (fish, dogs, cats, horses), along with a few more gruesome items. Read the rest of this entry »

Check out the cover of Max Payne 3 Issue #2: “Hoboken Blues” – the middle chapter of this three part comic series produced by Marvel – which will be available as a free download via the Max Payne 3 Official Site on Tuesday, June 12th (look for it at additional digital comic outlets shortly thereafter). Read the rest of this entry »

Step into the action like never before! Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment have announced Batman: Arkham City™ Armored Edition for the Wii U™ system from Nintendo. Developed by WB Games Montréal, the game delivers the same impactful story and gameplay of the award-winning blockbuster created by Rocksteady Studios, now with enhanced gameplay features made possible with the Wii U and the new controller.  The game is scheduled for release holiday 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

Paramount Pictures and leading video game publisher and developer NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. have given fans the first look at the key villain to be featured in the upcoming Star Trek™ video game inspired by J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek (2009) film reboot. The announcement made at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), revealed that a legendary lizard-like race known in Trek lore as “The Gorn” will play the destructive and villainous role in the video game releasing in early 2013. The co-op game is based on a standalone storyline that continues the adventure of iconic characters Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock as they work together to stop the Gorn, an enemy race bent on conquering the galaxy. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft invites you to go beyond the reach of civilization lies a lawless island ruled by violence. This is where you find yourself stranded, caught in a bloody conflict between the island’s psychotic warlords and indigenous rebels. Struggling to survive, your only hope of escape is through the muzzle of a gun. Read the rest of this entry »

Go beyond Sony Picture Entertainment’s Colombia Pictures feature film and find out what happens next in The Amazing Spider-Man^TM video game, which brings Spider-Man’s free-roaming, web-slinging action back to New York City.  Beenox Studios is polishing up the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, PC and 3DS versions of the game for its June 26th release, while Other Ocean developed The Amazing Spider-Man for Nintendo DS. Read the rest of this entry »