Our first look at League of Legends’ revamped art style

I feel legitimately bad that I haven’t touched Riot Games’ League of Legends more or less since its first week out of the gate. Maybe, just maybe, the studio can pull me back in with its impending shift in art style.
PC Gamer has so…

Need for Speed World hits 1 million users, becomes free

To celebrate EA’s MMO-style Need for Speed World hitting one million registered users, the game is going free — well, sort of.
Previously, you could play up until reaching level 10 before you had to break out the ol’ wallet; now, e…

PAX 10: Wakfu interview gets teen girls feeling fantastic

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News: FarmVille boss ordered copying – report

“I don’t want f***ing want innovation.”

A former employee of FarmVille maker Zynga has recalled how he was told expressly by the company’s boss to steal other people’s ideas.

The source, speaking to SF Weekly, remembered Zynga founder Mark Pincus’ exact words:

“I don’t f***ing want innovation,” he allegedly said. “You’re not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.”


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News: F1 2010 manual appears online

Shares details by the Hamilton.

The entire game manual for Codemasters’ F1 2010 game has appeared online.

You can read it right now On Steam. But bear in mind that the game isn’t out until 24th September.

The manual details every area of the game, from gameplay modes to mechanics. In single-player, for instance, you’ll be able to swap between Career, Grand Prix and Time Trial modes. In multiplayer, meanwhile, there are various Quick Modes: Pole Position, Sprint, Endurance and Online Grand Prix. The latter has its own qualifying round.


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Minecraft developer Notch is launching his own studio

Minecraft developer Markus “Notch” Persson is doing extremely well for himself. His game isn’t even finished yet, and he’s already surpassed 100,000 sales. On his blog, he’s given us an update on where the money is going and what th…

Minitroid gets new graphics, new music, new everything

The last time we talked about Minitroid, I told you that I found the game comforting. Metroid: Other M was just about to see release, and I was scared the game would be too different. While Other M looked scary and unknown, Minitroi…

News: Battlefield 1943 not released on PC

EA admits Store-based “error”.

Update: EA has not released Battlefield 1943 on PC. The EA Store listing was an “error”.

“BF 1943 PC is not available. This is an error on EA store. We are working to sort it out,” the company tweeted.

Original story: EA has finally released Battlefield 1943 on PC.


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L’Abbaye des Morts is bringing ZX Spectrum back

If nothing else, you have to give credit to Locomalito for excelling at capturing the essence of aged, beloved videogames. And hell, they have the best faux old-school box art I’ve ever seen. First there was the shoot-’em-up Hydorah…

Burning Tide: Blizzard’s first StarCraft II custom map

The first of hopefully many Blizzard-made StarCraft II custom maps is out, and it’s called “Burning Tide.”
As you might expect based on the name and attached screenshot, why yes, this is based on the stellar single-player mission “T…