Weekend Play: Going Back to The Island
Welcome to EGM’s Weekend Play, a weekly account of what games the editors of EGM are currently playing, and an open conversation with you, the reader, about what you’ve been playing. After reading what we’re playing, let us know what games you’ve been playing and what games, if any, you’ll be escaping to this weekend in the comments below! Even though ... Read More»
Angry Birds Dev Hires New Games Division Head
Established, experience mobile gaming studio executive Jami Laes has been hired on as Rovio’s new executive vice president of games, the company announced. “Thinking back, this was a natural next step in my career. I have always been a huge fan of Angry Birds and it has been great to see the phenomenal success that ... Read More»
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rooftop Run Available on iOS Devices
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rooftop Run, an endless runner based on the current TMNT Nickelodeon show, is now available for iOS devices. For $2, players can dash across the rooftops of Manhattan as Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michaelangelo, snatching coins to cash in for power ups and weapons. Another title based on the Nickelodeon show—Teenage ... Read More»
Dungeon Hunter 4 Review by Gaming on Batteries
Gameloft is catching quite a bit of flack over the in app purchases situation but honestly, it is not going anywhere anytime soon and it does allow pretty cool games like this to be accessible for more players that are either broke or are simply cheap. What gamers get with Dungeon Hunter 4 is a ... Read More»
Dungeon Hunter 4 Screen Shots
We will have a review available later but for now, rather than doing a preview, we are just going to post some screen shots from the early part of the game. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words, right? This is the fourth game in the popular Dungeon Hunter series by Gameloft, a ... Read More»
Minecraft Book Announced
Seven Stories Press have announced that they’ll release Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale Of Markus “Notch” Persson and the Game That Changed Everything November 5. Written by Linus Larsson and Daniel Goldberg, the book not only details the making of Minecraft, but also the life story of Markus “Notch” Persson. The book was published in Sweden ... Read More»
David Jaffe Rejects the Notion that Developers Are Restricted by Publishers
According to Twisted Metal and God of War developer David Jaffe, the idea that publishers are hurting videogame development—or stifling it—is completely untrue. Responding to an anonymously authored article that appeared on Kotaku about the stranglehold publishers have over developers and how much their supposed inept management hurts games, David Jaffe launched into his own rant on ... Read More»
Gemini Rue Now Available on iOS Devices
Ryan Johnson | GoozerNation Gemini Rue wowed adventure gamers in 2011 with it’s gritty noir-style futuristic adventure storyline when it first released on Windows platforms. Now, this critically-acclaimed game is making it’s way to iOS devices, offering more people a chance to try out this dazzling mystery/action/thriller... Read More»
MotoGP 13 Screenshots Revealed
PQube has revealed the first official batch of screenshots for the upcoming motorbike title MotoGP 13, the official videogame of the MotoGP World Championship 2013. These screenshots offer a glimpse at one of the most significant circuits of the entire championship: Gran Premio d’Italia TIM – Mugello... Read More»
Insert Coin Line of Pac-Man Clothes Announced
Insert Coin have announced a new line of clothes inspired by Pac-Man. Included in this line will be two different t-shirts—one that will identify you as a “Ghost Hunter Since 1980” and another in honor of the “World Championship 1980”—as well as a set of leggings that has the game grid pattern all over. Insert ... Read More»
Robot Unicorn Attack Gets Pixelated with Retro Unicorn Attack
Adult Swim’s Robot Unicorn Attack—easily my favorite iOS game/web game—has gotten an old-school reimagining with Retro Unicorn Attack: Challenge Edition. Both Robot and Retro Unicorn Attack are endless runners in which the player assumes control of, well, a unicorn, in an endlessly side-scrolling platformer set to the brain-hijackingly catchy tune “Always” by Erasure (which for my own ... Read More»
Capcom Adds Mega Man 2 OST to Their Store
As mentioned last week, Capcom is looking to make all of the Mega Man soundtracks legally available the Capcom Store, and that continues this weekend with release of Mega Man 2′s OST. Forty-two of Takashi Tateishi’s glorious, nostalgia-inducing Mega Man MIDI tunes are now available for purchase for $8.95 through the Capcom Store. The Mega ... Read More»
Xbox Live Down, Media Immediately Panic
Microsoft’s leading online video game network Xbox Live for Xbox 360 has gone down and the Redmond company has announced that at the present moment users may not be able to access their XBL friends and online matches despite the status website reporting otherwise... Read More»
Dragon`s Dogma Dark Arisen Enemy Trailer
With Dark Arisen being released next month Capcom has released a showcase of the new enemies coming to the game. The game will introduce new enemies such as Pyre Saurians, the Eliminator, and Death.. Check it out below. Dark Arisen will be available April 23 in North America and across Europe on April 26 for ... Read More»
EGM Weekly: April 13, 2013 Edition
Welcome to EGM Weekly, a round up of the top news, reviews, and features from the past seven days. Now that we’re back from our hiatus, we’re ready to report to your this week’s biggest news, which includes Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and Batman: Arkham Origins’ reveals, the latest crop of Xbox rumors, and the discovery ... Read More»





