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Clear Your 2016 Schedule: Blizzard Re-boots Development on New MMO
There are indications that World of Warcraft developer Blizzard Entertainment has decided upon a strategy that will lead to a delayed release of their next MMO unofficially codenamed "Titan". Nice to meet you....wait...where are you...
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It's A Bird, It's a Plane, It's Infinite Crisis!
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, through its developer Turbine, Inc., and Major League Gaming (MLG), the world's largest eSports league and online multiplayer platform, today announced a partnership to introduce Infinite Crisis to the...
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Gearbox Software Loves You: Yet Even More Borderlands 2 DLC.
Nearly 15 years ago, there was a game that walked the line between pure addictive collection of stuff and the fun of dispatching hordes of enemies. It was Blizzard's Diablo II. A bajillion (give or take a throng) people played the game for years...
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1997's Shadow Warrior Free to Play on Steam
In honor of the late-90's classic shooter getting a reboot treatment, Shadow Warrior Classic (as it has been redubbed) is available for nothin', providing you are a Steam user (it has both PC and Mac versions). mxdwn Games has previously covered...
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Article at IGN: Video Games v. Dyslexia
A lengthy article at IGN.com looks at a paper describing an early-stage study of whether playing video games actually helps young children diagnosed with dyslexia read better. Dyslexia is, for better or worse, widely regarded as a disorder that...
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Rockstar Announces Grand Theft Auto V Special Editions
According to an announcement on Rockstar's own Rockstar Newswire, two editions of Grand Theft Auto V are now available for pre-order. You can read their release here. Rockstar has announced a "Collector's Edition" and a "Special Edition". The...
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A Cinematic "Twist Of Fate" for League of Legends
Over at Shanghai, the five regions pit their All-Star team in the League of Legends front in order to gain dominance and the title as the end of season world champions. Over these three days the regional all-stars teams will duke it out in a best...
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Of Pigs and Birds: Angry Birds from Small Screen to Big Screen
In one of the more bizarre talent pairings in recent memory, Emmy award winning writer and producer Jon Vitti is rumored (or reported?) to have joined with the folks at Rovio for a 2015 (or 2016, according to IMDB) Angry Birds movie. Vitti is being...
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