Justin has been a gamer since the Intellivision days back in the early 80′s. He started writing about and covering the video game industry in 2008. In his spare time he is also a bit of a gun-nut and Star Wars nerd.
Without any fanfare, Ubisoft has pushed up the PC release of their post-apocalyptic survival title I Am Alive from its original September 13th launch date to September 6th, or as it's more commonly known as, tomorrow.
Naughty Dog showed off some new gameplay footage of The Last of Us this past weekend at PAX Prime 2012. Fortunately, for those who didn't make the expo, the entire demo - which is almost 16 glorious minutes long - was posted online today.
Ubisoft's controversial DRM for PC games, which required users to maintain an always-on internet connection in order to use their purchased software, has officially been scrapped.
Since Steam Greenlight's launch last week the community-based game approval process has been flooded with submissions. While most have been legitimate games, the new service has also seen its fair share of joke "Half-Life 3" submissions and even a recently removed erotic game. In an effort to add some kind of barrier to entry, Valve has decided to collect a $100 fee from anyone wanting to submit a game to Steam Greenlight, with all the proceeds going to charity.
When Insomniac Games' CEO Ted Price mentioned last week during his PAX Prime 2012 keynote that the studio's next game was called Fuse, speculation started to circulate that the new game was actually Overstrike, a four-player co-op game first announced at E3 2011. We still don't know for sure if the two games are the same project, but Insomniac is not doing much to counter the speculation.
A new job listing on Valve's website states that the company is "frustrated" by a lack of "innovation" in the PC hardware space, and they are planning to "jump in" with their own products at some point in the future.
Capcom announced this morning that a new Resident Evil 6 demo will be available for download on both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 starting on September 18th.