Witching Hour has released a thirteen minute gameplay video for their very soon to be released Ravenmark: Mercenaries, a turn-based strategy title for the iOS platform.
Author - Jerry Paxton
BURBANK, Calif. – (July 8, 2013) – Disney Infinity, Disney Interactive’s biggest and most ambitious video game to date, is embarking on a multi-city “Summer of Endless Fun” tour to showcase the most anticipated game of the year. The cross country road trip, which is free to the public, kicked off on July 7 in the Downtown Disney District in Anaheim, Calif. Players will get an exclusive sneak peek at the game before it hits store shelves on Aug. 18.
Zigzagging across the country, fans will get the chance to play Disney Infinity – featuring the innovative Toy Box mode that truly brings every kids’ imagination to life. Who hasn’t thought about building a world where Mr. Incredible uses a Monsters University toilet paper launcher while driving around in Cinderella’s carriage with monster truck wheels? Now players can let their imaginations run free and create their own adventures.
The “Summer of Endless Fun” Tour will make stops in Chicago, San Diego, Boston, Detroit and Richmond, culminating with a weekend of launch activities in New York City on Saturday, Aug. 17 and Sunday, Aug. 18. Activities at each tour stop include game demos, surprise guests, photo opportunities, giveaways, contests, entertainment provided by Radio Disney and more.
Disney Infinity is an all-new game platform that gives players the freedom to create stories and play experiences featuring characters from The Walt Disney Company and Pixar Animation Studios. Players can place real-world toy versions of beloved Disney characters onto a device called the Disney Infinity Base and transport them into the virtual game worlds of Monsters University, the Incredibles, Pirates of the Caribbean, Cars and The Lone Ranger, as well as into a giant Toy Box.
DISNEY INFINITY “SUMMER OF ENDLESS FUN” SCHEDULE AND LOCATIONS
- July 13-14: Taste of Chicago in Chicago, Ill.
- July 18-20: Gaslamp Quarter during San Diego Comic-Con, San Diego, Calif.
- July 19-21: Revere Beach National Festival in Boston, Mass.
- July 26-28: Coast Guard Festival in Detroit, Mich.
- August 10-11: Prince William County Fair in Richmond, Va.
- August 17: Nintendo World Store in New York City, N.Y.
- August 18: Times Square in New York City, N.Y.
For additional information about Disney Infinity, please visit www.disney.com/infinity and www.youtube.com/disneyinfinity
Washington, DC – July 8, 2013 – The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced today that Activision Blizzard, Inc. and Tencent have joined the trade association. They increase ESA’s membership to 37 companies, and bolster its representation of diverse businesses that drive advancements across all game platforms in the evolving marketplace.[quote_box author=”Michael D. Gallagher” profession=”President and CEO of ESA”]“These highly innovative companies offer compelling and influential video games and game content to millions of players across the globe.. Activision Blizzard and Tencent have established worldwide reputations as producers of world-class interactive entertainment. We are eager to work with both companies as they continue to grow their global interactive and entertainment services.”[/quote_box]
Activision Blizzard is an international online, PC, console, handheld, and mobile game developer and publisher with leading market positions across every major category of the interactive entertainment software industry. In addition to offering exclusive content for game consoles and computer games, the company is one of the largest third-party video game publishers in the world; titles include Activision Publishing’s popular Call of Duty andSkylanders franchises and Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo franchises. Founded in 1979, Activision was the first independent developer and distributor of video games for game consoles. Activision Blizzard maintains operations in 17 countries, including the United States.
[quote_box author=”Chris Walther” profession=”Activision Blizzard”]“We are excited to join ESA…[the] ESA has a long track-record of supporting its members and the video game industry, and we look forward to sharing our unique perspective and experience with them.”[/quote_box]
Tencent uses technology to enrich the lives of Internet users. Hundreds of millions of people communicate, share experiences, consume information, seek entertainment, and shop online daily through its integrated platforms. It serves the largest online game community in China with a diverse online games portfolio including the QQ Game Platform, advanced casual games and massively multiplayer online games. In addition to online games, its services include QQ, Weixin and WeChat for communications; Qzone for social networking; internet service portal QQ.com; and the eCommerce open platform. Founded in 1998, Tencent has steadily grown to become one of the leading providers of comprehensive Internet services.
[quote_box author=”Gordon Bellamy” profession=”Tencent”]“ESA supports and cultivates collaboration among member companies…We are excited to join an association that promotes the development of the U.S. game industry as we are exploring more opportunities in this market.”[/quote_box]
ESA offers services to interactive entertainment software publishers, including conducting business and consumer research, providing legal and policy analysis and advocacy on First Amendment, intellectual property and technology/e-commerce issues, managing a global anti-piracy program, owning and operating E3, and representing video game industry interests in federal and state government relations. For more information, please visitwww.theESA.com or follow us on Twitter: @RichatESA.
Sofia, Bulgaria – July 8, 2013 – Masthead Studios, a leading independent game developer, today announced several major updates and re-balance in their free-to-play online shooter Guns and Robots.
The updates change the matchmaking system and employ global re-balance of the durability, energy consumption, speed and damage of the parts. This global re-balance tweaks and improves weapons and gives players more fast-paced battles.
Major Updates in Matchmaking
There is an improved and modified matchmaking system. Players of a similar skill level are matched together for more balanced team setup. This gives players opportunity to explore and engage over the arenas on an equal footing. This also gives more freedom to improve and employ different game-play style for each player and many new options to choose from.
Global Re-balance
The re-balance gives different look and sensitivity of the overall battle mechanics. Many of the components are changed. Thus, there is a clear boundary between the three major classes of the parts—light, medium and heavy. Some content changes are coming as well.
Guns and Robots mini game
Guns and Robots mini game presents players with opportunity to enjoy a game within the game while waiting in the queue. Players are able to heat up their engines before the match has begun with shooting at space visitors.
Detailed information about the updates can be found at www.play-gar.com!
Guns and Robots is a free-to-play online shooter in which players assemble funny looking, yet deadly robots. The game blends fun, inventive character design and deep customization features. Players are provided with exciting situations during variety of maps. Enter the playground of destruction today!
Montréal (July 8, 2013) – Square Enix and Eidos-Montréal are happy to announce that Deus Ex: The Fall, the winner of seven “Best Mobile/iOS Game” awards at E3 2013*, will be coming to iOS devices this Thursday, July 11.
Deus Ex: The Fall will be available for $6.99 at the App Store on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Developed by Square Enix’s Mobile division in Europe, in collaboration with the original Deus Ex: Human Revolution® team at Eidos-Montréal and N-Fusion, Deus Ex: The Fall is a full story driven action-RPG and the first Deus Ex in the series to be developed for and released on mobile and tablet devices.
Deus Ex: The Fall will be compatible with iPad 2 and above, iPhone 4S and above, and iPod Touch 5 and above.
For more information, log onto www.DeusEx.com/TheFall or visit the Facebook pagewww.facebook.com/DeusEx and YouTube channel www.youtube.com/DeusExOfficial
AUSTIN, Texas, July 5, 2013 — The last time Starr Long and Richard Garriott teamed up to create a fantasy role playing game (RPG) was 1997. That game, Ultima Online, quickly became the first commercially successful massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) and many credit the duo with reinventing the RPG with that ground breaking product. Now Richard Garriott and Starr Long are preparing for yet another collaboration to reinvent the genre, this time on Portalarium’s™ Shroud of the Avatar™ PC based game. Starr was announced today as the project’s executive producer.
The announcement was made during RTX 2013, currently taking place at the Austin Convention Center. Garriott is a guest speaker at this year’s event. He is showing a demo of Shroud of the Avatar during a special presentation at 4:30 pm CDT, Saturday, July 6, in room 19 of the convention center. The entire presentation will be live streamed on RTX Live. Additionally, Garriott will be formally introducing Starr during his talk.
Starr is a 20-year veteran of the gaming industry. He started his career at Austin’s legendary Origin Systems studio where he worked directly with Garriott to produce and create Ultima Online, which continues its position today as the longest running massively multiplayer online game ever. In 2010, Ultima Online was inducted into the Online Game Developers Conference Hall of Fame, becoming the first MMO to be so honored. Starr later helped co-found Destination Games with Richard and Robert Garriott (the company was soon acquired by NCsoft) and as producer he again collaborated with Richard Garriott on the futuristic MMO game, Tabula Rasa. In 2008 Beckett’s Massive Online Gamer magazine named Starr Long as one of the Top 20 Most Influential People in the massively multiplayer online industry.
Starr’s move to Portalarium comes after spending the last four years as executive producer at The Walt Disney Company where he oversaw the Disney Interactive studio responsible for Pirates of the Caribbean Online, Pixie Hollow and Toontown. While there he was the executive producer of the Disney Parent App on Facebook, eight learning mini games in Club Penguin (including Pufflescape, the second most popular mini-game in that virtual world),Club Penguin mobile, five Disney Connected Learning games on iOS (ranked in the top 5 educational games) and the Disney Connected Learning platform.
“I am thrilled to be moving back to Austin to partner with Richard on his next fantasy role playing game,” said Starr. “Richard’s ideas for remaking the genre are well aligned with where the industry is today in terms of technology and design. It is really exciting to know that we are creating Shroud of the Avatar with the idea of bringing back the concepts and principles that Richard used successfully in making his Ultima series. With all of that said, what I most look forward to is working directly with the community to make the product they want, which is the real power of crowd funding.”
“If people enjoyed the leadership that was in place when we were creating Ultima Online, they’ll be very happy with the team we’ve put in place for Shroud of the Avatar,” said Garriott. “Starr Long is a longtime colleague of mine, and he is absolutely one of the visionaries in this space and his track record shows it. I know he’s ready to roll up his sleeves and jump right in to help us make the next epic RPG. This news sends a clear signal to our fans that the game they’ve been waiting 15 years to play is that much closer to reality.”
Shroud of the Avatar is a multiplayer fantasy RPG for the PC that is the spiritual successor to Richard Garriott’s previous works in the genre. It is expected to launch in Q4 2014. It is a crowd sourced game that has raised more than $2.3 million from backers to date. For more information on the game and to become a backer of the project, go to www.ShroudoftheAvatar.com.
Just wanted to send all of our readers in the United States of America a “Happy Fourth of July” holiday! Normal news programming will resume tomorrow morning. Thanks, everyone!
Bungie and Activision have released the official gameplay trailer for their upcoming sci-fi action title, Destiny. This footage is of the E3 demo which was showcased at the Activision convention center booth.
Trailer
While at last month’s E3 Expo in Los Angeles, we were curious as to why the voice over actor for “Mad” Max in Avalanche’s upcoming Mad Max title didn’t have an Australian accent. Apparently, fan concern has been noted and he will indeed have one in the finished product. Here is the tweet from CCO Christofer Sundberg at Avalanche Studios:
Attn. fans who want Max to have an Aussie accent in #MadMaxGame : It shall be so. We admire your loyalty. You have been heard.
— Christofer Sundberg (@CHSundberg) July 2, 2013
Larkspur, Calif., July 3, 2013 Earth has fallen into the hands of @EmperorZinyak and his evil alien empire. Its citizens have been imprisoned inside hellish simulations. Humanitys only hope is the former head of the Third Street Saints the President of the United States. Reclaim life, defend liberty, and pursue happiness at all costs with superpowers, a giant mech, a celebrity Vice President, a dubstep gun, and all the melodrama you can cram into an open world extravaganza.
Saints Row IV launches August 20th, 2013 across North and Latin America and August 23rd worldwide for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
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