City of Heroes, a superhero themed MMO, is officially a free-to-play title. Paragon Studio’s had announced the switch back in June and now you can simply go to the City of Heroes official website, sign yourself up, and start saving the day as your own custom hero. Along with the switch, players are introduced to a new tutorial system that intends to help introduce new players to the extensive content the long-running Read More ...
With Portal being released for free for a short while, it seems a good time in these dark days of the economy to highlight some excellent free games that everybody should try. The only things these vastly varied games have in common is their price tag: Masq A stylish black and white ‘decision’ game, Masq creates its own genre with multiple choices and endings set around a struggling business owner. Read More ...
The ITV Player and 4OD PS3 web-portals we talked about yesterday have been released today. All you have to do to use them is log in to your PSN account on the PS3 (it probably does this automatically if you’ve set that up and updated to the new firmware that was released last week), find the TV icon in the XMB and then just scroll down. Both players are right Read More ...
Sony has confirmed that both the ITV Player and 4OD will be joining the BBC iPlayer as PS3 applications this week. Both services are set to expand across other devices too, with internet-enabled TVs, tablet computers and other gaming consoles targeted. The most intriguing element of all this is that apparently Microsoft is not actively seeking deals with other TV companies. Sarah Rose, director of commercial business development at Channel Read More ...
Gamersfirst (http://www.gamersfirst.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Reloaded Productions has officially completed its sale of Realtime Worlds’, APB: All Points Bulletin. They have acquired all the Intellectual Property Rights (ITR) for the game as it moves on to the Free2Play MMO publisher. The publisher will develop APB as a AAA Free2Play title as it will be based on Unreal Engine 3. You can expect the launch of the game to Read More ...
EA has announced Battlefield: Play4Free. It’s a realistic-style free to play PC FPS set in the modern day world of war and guns. Apparently it’s designed to appeal to the hardcore market, unlike Battlefield Heroes. Currently, Play4Free is in development over at Easy Studios at DICE, the team behind Heroes.
A fan-made remake of 1996 PC FPS Duke Nukem 3D will be officially released after Duke Nukem license holder Gearbox gave the title their approval. It’s called “Duke Nukem: Next-Gen” and runs on Unreal Engine 3. The game will have a three episode single-player campaign mode and a multiplayer component. It will be released for free on the PC. “I contacted George Broussard and Scott Miller [of original Duke Nukem Read More ...
The BBC has lifted the lid on the third episode of the Doctor Who: The Adventure Games. It will be called “TARDIS”, and follows the Doctor and Amy as they have to investigate the big blue box. It’s gone a bit wobbly so the duo needs to repair it. Once you’ve fixed it, you will apparently get to pilot the famous time machine. TARDIS will be released on Friday 27th Read More ...
