http://www.cinemablend.com/games/ Games News en-us Copyright 1997-2005 Joshua Tyler Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:31:08 -0700 CinemaBlend.com josh@cinemablend.com (Josh Tyler) 60 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:29:44 -0700 http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Diablo-3-Arriving-Between-April-June-39414.html http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Diablo-3-Arriving-Between-April-June-39414.html Blizzard sadly didn't announce a release for Diablo 3 during the Activision-Blizzard investors' conference call today. However, they did provide a more exact estimate of when we can expect the action RPG to arrive. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:00:00 -0700 http://www.cinemablend.com/games/World-Warcraft-Loses-100-000-Subscribers-39412.html http://www.cinemablend.com/games/World-Warcraft-Loses-100-000-Subscribers-39412.html During Activision Blizzard's conference call with investors today, the company revealed that World of Warcraft lost another 100,000 subscribers in the last quarter of 2011. This is good or bad news, depending on your perspective. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:43:26 -0700 http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Turtle-Beach-Ranked-1-Gaming-Headsets-2011-39409.html http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Turtle-Beach-Ranked-1-Gaming-Headsets-2011-39409.html There are a lot of peripheral companies out there offering a nice range of various accessories and gaming gear for core gamers. According to the NPD for 2011, only one company stood head-and-shoulders above the rest when it came to gaming headsets and that was Turtle Beach. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:27:25 -0700 http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Mobile-Dev-Says-Nobody-Talks-About-Charging-70-Games-People-Don-t-Like-39405.html http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Mobile-Dev-Says-Nobody-Talks-About-Charging-70-Games-People-Don-t-Like-39405.html CEO of mobile company Addmired, Gabriel Leydon, talked extensively about some of the biggest elephants in the gaming industry room: fixed pricing. At the 2012 D.I.C.E. summit, Leydon mentioned that the real problem in the industry are $70 games that people don't even like. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:44:01 -0700 http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Kung-Fu-Strike-Announced-Exclusively-Xbox-360-39404.html http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Kung-Fu-Strike-Announced-Exclusively-Xbox-360-39404.html 7Sixty and Qooc Soft announced that Kung-Fu Strike will be arriving for the Xbox 360's Live Arcade platform soon. The game was announced with a new teaser trailer and a handful of new screenshots. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:47:42 -0700 http://www.cinemablend.com/games/FireFall-Dev-Diary-Game-Starts-With-10-Square-Miles-Features-An-Entire-Planet-39401.html http://www.cinemablend.com/games/FireFall-Dev-Diary-Game-Starts-With-10-Square-Miles-Features-An-Entire-Planet-39401.html Talk about an ambitious open-world project...Red 5's CEO and CCO, Mark Kern, revealed that the game will start with 10 square miles of content to unlock, but eventually if players work together they can unlock an entire planet worth of content. Is that not insane or what? Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:51:53 -0700 http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Double-Fine-Studio-Raises-800-000-One-Day-Game-39399.html http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Double-Fine-Studio-Raises-800-000-One-Day-Game-39399.html Gamers obviously know what they want and who they want it from. Tim Schafer and crew at Double Fine Studios used a KickStarter program fuelled and funded by the community to develop their latest point-and-click adventure game for the modern age. Within just a few hours of starting the campaign they raised more than $320,000. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:29:09 -0700 http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Ghost-Recon-Online-Beta-Launch-Scheduled-March-39398.html http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Ghost-Recon-Online-Beta-Launch-Scheduled-March-39398.html You won't have to watch much longer to try out Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online. Ubisoft said today that the closed beta for the multiplayer shooter will kick off on March 5th. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:22:27 -0700 http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Aliens-Colonial-Marines-Box-Art-Revealed-39397.html http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Aliens-Colonial-Marines-Box-Art-Revealed-39397.html Sega and Gearbox Software unveiled the final box art for the upcoming first-person cooperative shooter, Aliens: Colonial Marines. The cover looks pretty sweet but I'm sure gamers would have preferred some gameplay videos to accompany the news instead. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:26:13 -0700 http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Earthrise-Shutting-Down-Today-39396.html http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Earthrise-Shutting-Down-Today-39396.html The post-apocalyptic MMORPG Earthrise is going offline. Developer Masthead Studios said that they're shutting down the game's servers today. The decision comes mere days after the MMO celebrated its one-year anniversary. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:47:01 -0700 http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Battleship-Video-Game-Trailer-Fights-Across-Land-Sea-39391.html http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Battleship-Video-Game-Trailer-Fights-Across-Land-Sea-39391.html The board game that became a film is becoming a video game. Today Activision released a teaser trailer for the Battleship video game they announced yesterday for multiple platforms. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:01:13 -0700 http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Kingdoms-Amalur-2-Possible-Depends-Sales-39390.html http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Kingdoms-Amalur-2-Possible-Depends-Sales-39390.html This week Big Huge Games released their open-world RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. While they're no doubt relieved to finish the game after years of development, they're eager to make a sequel. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:52:46 -0700 http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Skyrim-Patch-1-4-Now-Live-Xbox-360-Hitting-PS3-Later-Today-39388.html http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Skyrim-Patch-1-4-Now-Live-Xbox-360-Hitting-PS3-Later-Today-39388.html Today Bethesda is releasing Patch 1.4 for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on consoles. The patch fixes a huge number of bugs, including the notorious 'Rimlag' issue that has vexed PS3 players for so long. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:31:15 -0700 http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Free-Jetpack-Joyride-Downloaded-13-Million-Times-39381.html http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Free-Jetpack-Joyride-Downloaded-13-Million-Times-39381.html Halfbrick Studios' side-scroller Jetpack Joyride has received plenty of attention from gamers since it went free-to-play in December. At the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas, they revealed that the iOS game was downloaded 13 million times after the free-to-play switch. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:35:45 -0700 http://www.cinemablend.com/games/D3Publisher-Publishing-3-Dreamworks-Games-Due-THQ-Restructuring-39376.html http://www.cinemablend.com/games/D3Publisher-Publishing-3-Dreamworks-Games-Due-THQ-Restructuring-39376.html D3Publisher, a subsidiary of Namco Bandai, will be picking up the publishing rights to three upcoming Dreamworks properties to publish them as games. These titles were once under the THQ licensing label until THQ backed out to restructure and focus on core games alone.