Here’s an eye-opener for you. The people behind the forthcoming Xbox Live remakes of Alien Breed have revealed that development costs for the trilogy of titles weigh in at a cool $2.5 million. Speaking at this year’s Develop Conference, Team 17 Studio’s director Martyn Brown said that the project...

It is a sad day in the gaming world as the upcoming new IP Necessary Force is no longer in development and has an uncertain future. The parent studio, Midway Newcastle, officially closed its doors today after a valiant battle to keep them open while looking for a buyer. Studio head Craig Duncan was...

It was then that the masses breathed a sigh of relief, all whispering, “Finally” — LucasArts has announced that they will bring their classics to Steam. Titles include Armed and Dangerous, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure, LEGO Indiana Jones, Star Wars Battlefront II,...

This new video below for Codemasters’ upcoming military sim Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising pretty much speaks for itself. With no marketing bs in sight, what we see here is all real-time in-game gameplay footage as we’re shown a situation that starts off well for the attacking US Special forces...

Last year’s Dead Space from EA’s Visceral Games (then EA Redwood Shores) can be considered a commercial success. The title sold over a million units in 2008, not bad for a brand new IP competing with big Christmas games like Fallout 3. But as happy as studio manager Glen Schofield is with the sales,...

Codemasters announced today that they will be taking advantage of all the technological mumbo jumbo that comes with DirectX 11 for the Games For Windows version of Colin McRae: DiRT 2. The good news: the game is going to look even more awesome. The bad news: the PC version won’t be released until...

At a preview event in London, Valve’s Doug Lombardi confirmed that Left 4 Dead 2 will be getting a demo before its release this November. In response to this news, a cynical, and incredibly rude, troll from deep in the internet had this to say on the subject, “Well no duh. Valve knows that everyone...

Popular logic dictates that when people are buying games online they’re not doing it in shops. This, however, appears to be a fallacy according to Valve, overlords of popular digital distribution service Steam. Recent data published by the firm suggests that promotions run through the platform can...

It seems that sometimes, things just don’t turn out well. The developers of Trine, Frozenbyte, had told Eurogamer that Trine as a project is “a big mess,” with the disparity between prices for all platforms it will be released to be one of the many issues they have. As of now, the price of for...

There is a concern that Dead Space and its Wii exclusive prequel Dead Space Extraction are too different. For one it isn’t a 3rd person shooter you play alone in the dark, or in my case with all the lights on at one in the afternoon. Extraction is a co-op on-rails shooter. So how is Visceral Games...