The International Game Developers Association has published an open letter to developers warning them of potential pitfalls in Amazon.com’s new Android App store. It would seem that Amazon’s Distribution Terms, which seem innocuous on the surface, have some hidden language that could seriously impact a developer’s freedom and income potential. Fine-tune your content and keywords with seo tools online.
Fans of doing awesome stuff for charity and having a great time doing it, take note. The third installment of the phenomenally successful and fantastically good willed Humble Indie Bundle is now live. For fifteen days only, charitable gamers can once again pay what they like for a selection of indie gaming goodness, with each of the latest offerings coming courtesy of Finnish developers Frozenbyte. In return for your generosity, you’ll bag highly rated action-platformer …
This is a belated quickie: Bits ‘n’ Bytes Gaming, a fellow gaming site that Tap likes to flirt with now and then (and home to Tap regular Armand), have recently posted up a collection of top 5 female game characters lists as selected by the BnB Gaming staffers as well as a few guest writers. Amongst those guest writers you’ll find myself, Matthew ‘Steerpike’ Sakey and Joel Goodwin a.k.a. Harbour Master of Electron Dance (obligatory …
If there’s one thing I love, it’s sensationalist reporting from the mainstream media about video games and their ills against society. Once upon a time I used to find this sort of thing a frustrating annoyance, but whether it’s Fox News and their “Bulletstorm will make you rape people!” angle or Alan Titchmarsh and his laughable lack of grasp on the 21st Century in general, I can’t help but giggle nowadays. Today’s funny piece comes …
To pick up on Mat C’s 2011: A Vintage Year For Zombies, Capcom have today released the Resident Evil: 15th Anniversary Trailer. Queue awesome/cringe worthy voice over, and a slide show of the sexed up Resident Evil collection. Resident Evil Revelations in particular looks great, while the sneak preview of Resident Evil Racoon City is just enough to wet the appetite. I’m not sure I’ve been scared of a Resident Evil game since the first, though… …
GamePro refers us to an important announcement coming out of Japan: PlatinumGames, the offspring of shuttered Viewtiful Joe and Okami developer Clover Studio, is rebranding as Platinum Next and calling attention to this fact with a sternly-worded letter to Japanese game development.
The second Aperture Investment Opportunity launched a couple of days ago on the official Portal 2 website, and boy is it funny. For anyone concerned that it might spoil the game, I assure you that these marketing videos contain no in game footage but are purely for fun, using the duo Atlas and P-Body to great effect. I’m surprised Valve have managed to trump the last, but this one in parcitular did have me smiling from ear to …
Aieee. American game retailer GameStop has acquired Impulse, StarDock Systems’ digital distribution service. This means Stardock is getting out of the digital-distro game, essentially succumbing to Steam, and handing their infrastructure off to a brick and mortar retailer.
Well folks, it looks like somebody at Capcom finally woke up and decided to leverage the Resident Evil brand in a way that doesn’t suck decomposing donkey dongs. The series that gave birth to (and then started eating) the survival horror genre celebrated its fifteenth anniversary this past week, and to celebrate Capcom have opened the doors to a whole mansion full of undead news. I guess Resident Evil games are like London buses. You wait two years for one …
This weeks sales chart is in from GFK and it’s not surprising to see Crysis 2 head to the top spot. I’m still getting over Homefront actually achieving number one last week (people really must be desperate to spend their money). Anyway, EA can be proud that Crysis 2 enjoyed a bigger opening weekend than Bulletstorm and Dragon Age II, two of 2011’s big hitters. It’s also good news for Crytek and PC development, especially when you …
At this years EVE Fanfest in Reykjavik, Iceland, CCP in their keynote speech have once again shared their ‘future vision’ of EVE. It’s impressive stuff, and the prospect of intertwining planetary combat in a massively multiplayer first person shooter (Dust 514 is CCP’s console shoot-em-up based on the EVE universe) that physically impacts on EVE Online is a bewildering technical feat, but something I still can’t see them pulling off. I’ve put a little information on Dust 514 below, but …
While they won’t be a playable race within Guild Wars 2 (mores the pity) ArenaNet have just updated their official blog with an in depth look at the frog people of Tyria. First seen in Guild Wars: Nightfall and then again in Guild Wars: Eye of the North, its great to see these chaps get padded out. Not only does it look like they’ll play a much bigger part in Guild Wars 2 but it goes to show how much effort …
I’m surprised one of my fellow writers wasn’t on this like a tramp around chips yesterday and yet in the eyes of the internet, I guess it might now be considered old news being only one day old. Still, I’ve just watched it again for the sheer joy of it and I’m sure there are plenty out there who haven’t seen it yet. Voiced by J.K Simmons of Juno fame (amongst many others), Valve really have nailed the …
..fucking shit. Sorry for the expletives, but I’m pretty sure the majority of Tap readers will excuse me once they see the video in question. No doubt you’ll have some choice words of your own, too.
Following on from yesterday’s decision to delay this week’s launch of Motorstorm Apocalypse in Japan, Sony have today also announced their decision to postpone the games release beyond its scheduled Friday launch in the UK.