Wasteland 2 From InXile Has Legs

SEPT. 24, 2014 • Four days out from its September 19 release on Steam, Wasteland 2 from inXile Ent. has generated $1.5 million in revenue. This RPG for PCs benefited from a successful Kickstarter campaign to raise $3 million in 2012. The original funding goal was $900,000, which was then the largest Kickstarter target to date. Although the game is the first official sequel to Interplay Productions’ Wasteland from 1988, the Fallout series drew inspiration f.....

Natsume Interview: Harvesting Success

AUG. 28, 2014 • Much in the same way Nintendo Co. Ltd. has diligently nurtured a wholesome reputation in the video games it publishes, Natsume Inc. has successfully followed a very similar blueprint starting with the Harvest Moon franchise. That farm simulation series was a trailblazer back in 1997 when it was released on the 16-bit Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The title remains very popular today and laid the groundwork for franchises such as FarmVille .....

GameFly Unloads Direct2Drive

AUG. 25, 2014 • Three years after digital distributor Direct2Drive was acquired from News Corp by GameFly, Inc., the service has been sold to Taipei-based AtGames Digital Media Inc. Terms of the acquisition were not publicly disclosed. GameFly announced the agreement on its website via a note to its customers stating the game retailer will continue to operate the digital download business for AtGames until later this year, or until AtGames is ready to manage the.....

Good Old Games Goes Linux

JULY 24, 2014 • Although Good Old Games had targeted the fall for the launch of its service on Linux, the digital distribution arm of CD Projekt introduced its wares early after successful trials. The only penalty in launching early was the availability of 50 titles instead of the 100 games promised for fall. GOG.com is directly supporting two of the most popular versions of Linux, Ubuntu and Mint, and is providing distro-independent tar.gz archives for other ve.....

New Joe Montana Football Game Teased

JULY 14, 2014 • During the World Cup finals weekend American pro football star quarterback Joe Montana tweeted a tease for a new football video game, Joe Montana Football 16. The original series ran from 1991 to 1995 on the Sega Genesis and was published by Electronic Arts. That franchise embraced more arcade gameplay elements and featured 16 fictitious teams in its first two years before obtaining an NFL license for NFL Sports Talk Football ’93. If Montan.....

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