Hands On at GDC: Tera

Hands On at GDC: Tera

The Exiled Realm of Arborea, or T.E.R.A, is a PC MMO developed and published byEn Masse Entertainment. It was just announced at GDC, and we got a chance to sit in on a playthrough. What does TERA bring to the MMO space? It’s an action MMO with some strategy elements, and a combat system that is rather...

Hands on at GDC: Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse

Hands on at GDC: Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse

I was able to sit down with Chris Schmidt, PR Director for Telltale Games, for a look at the upcoming Season Two, Episode One of Sam & Max. Named The Devil’s Playhouse, this is the first episode available for the PSN network, as well as the first time Sony has authorized a pre-order bonus. The...

From a Galaxy Far Far Away to the Echoverse

From a Galaxy Far Far Away to the Echoverse

Simutronics today announced that Idea Fabrik is licensing HeroEngine for its upcoming flagship virtual world game, Echoverse. The engine has been licensed for a variety of projects including BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. The game will combine real life and digital life as players create their own...

Kick Ass Hands On Preview

Kick Ass Hands On Preview

Kick Ass, the Game, developed by Frozen Codebase and published by WHA Entertainment, will be released April 15th on PSN and the iPhone App Store, to coincide with the release of the similarly named movie, based on the comic book by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. Confused, yet? Here’s how it breaks...

GDC Background

GDC Background

As I sit here in the Seattle airport, waiting another hour before I board a plane to San Francisco, I decided to share a bit more about GDC, courtesy of the official website: The Game Developers Conference® (GDC) is the world’s largest professionals-only game industry event. Presented every spring in...

Frakkin’ Sweet 3D Browser-Based MMOG Announced at 2010 GDC

Frakkin’ Sweet 3D Browser-Based MMOG Announced at 2010 GDC

The global market leader in browser-based Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG), Bigpoint,  will be demonstrating the next generation of client-free PC gaming at Game Developers Conference 2010. Leading its product slate for 2010 will be Battlestar Galactica Online, a tactical space combat and...

Indie Fund will… Fund your indie game

Indie Fund will… Fund your indie game

Announced today as a cooperative of successful indie game developers, Indie Fund is a new project that looks to foster the growth of the emerging indie games market by providing an additional revenue stream to budding game designers. The financial backers of Indie Fund read like a who’s who of the...

Paradox Interactive GDC Releases

Paradox Interactive GDC Releases

Paradox Interactive announced that they will “officially” be at GDC this year, and will be showing off many new PC and console titles. We’ll make sure we check their booth out at the show in March. The following titles will be available for playable demo opportunities throughout the...

Games Developer Conference 2010

Games Developer Conference 2010

We’re going. Are you? Let us know if you want to connect up this year in San Francisco, baby. We’d love to meet up with readers, developers, fans, gamers of all stripe, etc. We’ll be there representing GrE as well as The Portable Gamer, so feel free to come by and hit us up for some chat....