Borderlands 2 dated
Borderlands 2 will be released on September 18 in North America, and three days later in Europe, publisher 2K Games has confirmed. More >
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NeverDead review
Rebellion's innovative shooter is brimming with oddball ideas.
Alan Wake's American Nightmare review
The series' combat still shines, but Wake stumbles in his transition to XBLA.
The Making Of: Alan Wake
Remedy’s game took five years to emerge from the darkness of development. The studio explains how it finally saw the light.
1Microsoft improves Indie Game visibility
Last week's Xbox 360 system update contained good news for indie developers by moving the Xbox Live Indie Games service to the top level of the Marketplace - but, for some reason, only in the United States. In a statement passed to Eurogamer and due to be posted on the AppHub Forums and XNA Community Blog, Microsoft confirms that it has acted on feedback from indie developers following the release of the Metro dashboard update in December, which buried XBLIG deep in the Xbox 360 menu system. More >
Starbreeze confirms layoffs
Swedish developer Starbreeze Studios has confirmed 25 staff have been laid off after the completion of Syndicate for publisher EA. The company also confirmed to gamesindustry.biz that Peter Tornquist is to resign from the board of directors, and will not be replaced. More >
Talking Spry Fox
Part two of our interview with the Triple Town dev, including why indies are fundamental to social networks and why consoles are scary.
Monolith investigating Gotham City Impostors bug
Monolith says it is doing everything in its power to fix a bug in Gotham City Impostors that is completely wiping players' stats. A member of the studio's community management team started a thread on the game's official forums last week, asking those affected to post details of the problem. At the time of writing the thread spans 71 pages. More >
Guilty Gear returns
The Guilty Gear series is to return to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and arcade, developer Arc System Works has revealed. Andriasang brings word from this week's AOU Amusement Expo in Japan that Arc is, unusually, to port a console game to the arcade, in this case Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus, released for PlayStation 2 in 2008. More >
Mechner remaking Karateka
Prince Of Persia creator Jordan Mechner is remaking his breakout hit, 1984 Apple II game Karateka, for Xbox Live Arcade and SEN. Speaking to VentureBeat, Mechner confirmed that the remake will be his first day-to-day development job since Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time. He has spent the interim writing for graphic novels, and wrote and directed 2003 documentary Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story. More >
Duke Nukem Forever delayed in Japan
The Japanese release of Duke Nukem Forever has been delayed by three weeks to March 29. More >
2Cell: Emergence review
An idiosyncratic indie shooter from the writer behind Deus Ex.
Gotham City Impostors review
An FPS that imposes more than its fat Batmen and jowly Jokers.
3Little Racers Street review
A familiar feeling but intelligently assembled XBIG package.
2Street Fighter X Tekken dated for PC
Street Fighter X Tekken will be released for PC on May 11, publisher Capcom has confirmed. It means PC players will get their hands on Capcom's Namco crossover more than two months after console players. The game will be released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 9. More >
RedLynx on Trials Evolution
Three of the development team take us through the trial bike game's powerful new level editor.
Schafer: console patches cost $40,000
Double Fine head Tim Schafer has said that independent developers are drifting away from the "closed" console download services because of prohibitive costs, claiming that patches alone cost $40,000. Speaking to Hookshot Inc, Schafer said that while Xbox Live Arcade and PSN were genuine options for indies when their host platforms launched, the likes of Steam and the App Store, as well as the Minecraft model, are now much better routes to market. More >
Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning tops UK chart
Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning is the new UK all-formats number one, the EA-published RPG taking top spot from last week's number one, Final Fantasy XIII-2. More >
AIAS crowns Skyrim game of 2011
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim won in five categories at last night's AIAS Interactive Achievement Awards in Las Vegas. Bethesda's sprawling fantasy epic was named RPG and game of the year, and also won awards for outstanding achievement in story, gameplay engineering, and game direction. More >
Activision: "Meaningful innovation" for this year's Call Of Duty
This year's Call Of Duty game will bring "meaningful innovation" to the series, according to publisher Activision. The claim comes from Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing, who was speaking during an investor call following the release of the publisher's fiscal results. More >