For decades, mankind has contemplated what would have happened if two historical icons had battled¿with balls. Finally, there's a studio brave enough to tackle this difficult question. Blazing Lizard announces its first console downloadable game, Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball.
Todays Xbox LIVE Arcade release is Poker Smash, for 800 MS points. Poker Smash has seven unique game modes, with eleven immersive environments. And, if you are in the U.S. you can enter the, Poker Smash, Play & Win Sweepstakes.
Poker Smash has been confirmed for a Wednesday 6th February 2008 release.
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Valve has put out a job advertisement for a voice over role in Portal 2, which amazingly gives up some spoilerific info on the game's plot. Read no further if you don't want to spoil things for yourself. The casting is for character Cave Johnson - the boss of Aperture (the company that developed the Portal Gun) who, according to the plot of the first game and the real-world Aperture science website, is dead. ...
» Read MoreValve pledged to make Portal 2 as innovative as the original and not just a quick cash in.
The first game, Valve's Doug Lombardi said in an interview, was just a tester for the ingenious portal system. "We thought we were on to something cool, but we just didn't know for sure because it was radical," he said.
"It could have been one of those things that 20,000 people thought was really cool and everybody else just scratched their ...
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GamesIndustry.biz has learned that Valve asked Microsoft if it was possible to place its award-winning Orange Box title, Portal, on Xbox Live Arcade for download, but that it was rejected.
We all knew it was coming, but Valve design heroine Kim Swift has gone and announced that Portal 2 is indeed currently in development, although we've got a feeling she wasn't supposed to say that. Speaking in a video interview with G4 TV, the Portal co-creator said: "I think Doug Lombardi, who's our marketing director at Valve, has announced Portal 2," although the last time we checked, he bloody well hadn't. We think her job's safe as, y' know, ...