Finally – some good news. 2K Games have announced a global release date of – February 9, 2010 – for the much anticipated BioShock 2. Mark your god-damn gaming calenders! The game is already available on pre-order at some retailers. Taking place 10 years after the first title the halls of Rapture are once again [...]
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Konami’s Zombie Apocalypse Hits XBLA and PSN Next Week
September 18th, 2009
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On the list of fun things to do – destroying hordes of zombies is definitely, in my opinion, in the top 5 and is something that will never get old. Because what better reason to shoot something than it’s semi-dead and wants to eat my brains. Konami is planning on quenching your zombie blood lust [...]
[8bit Spotlight] Stickmen Studios Ltd.
June 18th, 2009
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It’s been awhile since we’ve done one of these. We kind of fell of the [8bit Spotlight] bandwagon. Well to get us back into it the spotlight has fallen on a software development team based in New Zealand – which is not the capital of Australia. Stickmen Limited is a fairly new developer that is [...]
[8bit Spotlight] Playlogic Entertainment
April 28th, 2009
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Playlogic is a worldwide independent publisher for consoles, PCs, handhelds and mobile devices. Playlogic’s in-house studio: Playlogic Game Factory in Breda, da Nederlands, is made up of about 80 people and is one of the most modern and advanced development studios. Even though the Game Factory has developed titles across the board recently the studio [...]
OnLive Joining Console Battle Winter 2009
April 13th, 2009
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While the major consoles are trying to convince you to have another piece of equipment in your living room for that total media experience – OnLive is doing the opposite. Basically OnLive is like On Demand – but with video games that you can play on your TV with the MicroConsole, on a PC or [...]
[8bit Spotlight] Sucker Punch Productions LLC
March 24th, 2009
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Sucker Punch Productions LLC, a developer based out of Bellevue, WA, was founded in 1997 and has since created stylish, critically acclaimed character-based video games. Their most notable titles are from the Sly Cooper franchise for the PS2 which as a series sold over four million copies and took home some awards from both the [...]
[8bit Spotlight] Paradox Interactive
March 20th, 2009
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Paradox Interactive was founded in 1999 and was created with the idea of developing the best history based strategy games that challenge the intellectual. They’ve been developing and publishing strategy games for the PC platform including Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, Galactic Civilization and Rush for Berlin. Paradox Interactive has two divisions: publishing and development. [...]
[8bit Spotlight] Artematica::Games for People
March 9th, 2009
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Artematica is a well known Italy based developer that embraces a varied demographic with it’s styles of titles, which concentrate on Graphic Adventure, Sporting Simulation and Kids Games (platform/action arcade). A majority of their games are currently available for PC but the developer has moved into making games for Wii, Nintendo DS, PS2 and PSP. [...]
[8bit Spotlight] Ideaworks3D – Bringing You Mobile Gaming
February 12th, 2009
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There’s no denying it – mobile gaming is on its way up. With phones becoming more and more powerful they’re also becoming a center piece of communication and entertainment. The new ‘hot’ thing is developing apps for the iPhone and right behind it is gaming. Helping in that charge is a London based company called [...]
[8bit Spotlight] G4Box Inc. – We Are Online
February 4th, 2009
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Toronto based publisher, G4Box Inc, is a leading digital media company that focuses on publishing and distributing online games. Which they believe will become one of the most significant forms of entertainment in the 21st Century and we couldn’t agree more. Founded in May of 2006, G4Box Inc. is still a fairly young company but [...]
