• by Quinton Miles

    Nearly three months after dissolving their editorial branch, online games service GameTap will now reportedly be looking for a buyer as parent company Turner has decided to sell the company.
    Revealed in the company’s second quarter financials this morning, the documents show an $18 million writeoff that is attributed to the decision: “The current year quarter [...]

  • by Quinton Miles

    Rockstar Games announced this morning that a PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV is indeed on the way, confirming the many rumors of the game’s existence. The version will also get an “expanded” multiplayer mode, though no specific details were given.
    “We are very excited to be releasing the PC version of Grand Theft Auto [...]

  • by Quinton Miles

    In this week’s edition of Zero Punctuation, Ben “Yahtzee” Crowshow gives his take on Funcom’s Age of Conan. With the MMO genre currently being dominated quite handily by Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, my impression from watching this was that he thinks the games are much too similar. Alongside that, it makes the player feel much [...]

  • by Matt Paprocki

    Just days after Flagship Studios co-founder said their next game, Mythos, was on track, the studio has closed its doors. Hellgate was stated to be a financial burden for the company according to the interview, and was apparently enough of a problem to cause the closure.
    A Korean studio HanbitSoft will supposedly be taking over Hellgate [...]

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