Riot Games’s League of Legends might have more players than World of Warcraft, and more than any other game in the western nations it’s turning e-sports — competitive video games as a spectator sport — into a real thing that people get excited about and pay for. It’s not the only player, of course. We reported recently that Twitch.tv, a streaming video [...]
Classic PC role-playing game Baldur’s Gate is set to launch on Windows PCs today, but the much-heralded iPad adaptation has been delayed for one extra week thanks to a game-crashing bug found by Apple during its app verification process. That’s the news according to the game’s Creative Director Trent Oster on Twitter. He announced to fans that Apple rejected the Baldur’s [...]
Competitive PC gamers and streaming digital spectators have something to look forward to: Having wrapped up Season 2 in October with a fantastically popular World Championships tournament, League of Legends is gearing up for Season 3. Already the most-played game in the world with over one billion hours played every month (at least according to Xfire), League of Legends is [...]
It was teased a month ago, and now it’s finally here: the Angry Birds and Star Wars mashup game just hit a whole bunch of mobile and computer app stores, ranging from SD to HD and from free to $0.99 to $2.99. The extremely thorough homage to the classic Sci-Fi films (not the Jar-Jar Binks ones, mind you) is full of easter [...]
When gamers found out cult hit, Diablo-like Torchlight was getting a greatly enhanced sequel, they were enthusiastic, but the launch of the behemoth that is Diablo 3 made Torchlight 2‘s prospects look grim. Can the pseudo-indie take on the genre beat the franchise that birthed it? Well, as of today you can download the game and find out for yourself. Torchlight 2 is just [...]
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