Not to be confused with You Have to Burn the Rope and Cut the Rope, Big Blue Bubble’s Burn the Rope is available on iPad today in a spiffy new HD version. It’ll set wannabe fire-starters back $ 4.99 and sports 116 missions, full Game Center support and new Bug-Blasting bonus rounds and an additional Lights Out! mode.
Gallery: Burn the Rope HD
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Are you positively charged up to see Raiden’s electric moves in Mortal Kombat? Bolt on past the break to see what happens when Raiden shuffles sufficiently across the living room carpet.
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Ratchet & Clank and Resistance developer Insomniac Games announced earlier this week that it was opening a new division, Insomniac Click, dedicated to web and mobile games. The company is clearly intent on expanding — it entered a publishing partnership with EA Partners last year, breaking a 16-year run of PlayStation exclusive. CEO Brian Hastings has now explained that its move into the social/mobile space is due in part to the core gaming audience not growing as it needs to.
“I’m not in the doom-and-gloom camp in terms of the health of the console market, but I do think it’s becoming increasingly challenging in that space,” he told CasualGaming.biz. “It’s getting to the point where only the very best triple-A console games are profitable. And, of course, it’s increasingly expensive to make the very best games. So not every developer can survive. But they’re not giving away free money in the social and mobile space either. You still have to compete with the other top teams in the industry.”
So while doing social or mobile games isn’t a guarantee of success, there is a larger audience to be reached with them. “The main reason I believe it’s important — even necessary — to expand into the social sector is that there is simply a bigger audience there. Because triple-A games are necessarily complex they have a fairly predefined audience of core gamers. That core audience isn’t really expanding much and the total dollars each core gamer spends isn’t going up, so as triple-A budgets inflate, each developer has to steal players away from other games in order to simply keep their revenues above their costs. The only long term viable solution for all parties would be to expand the audience.
Adhesive Games is developing a new Mech Combat FPS. All clips in this video were captured from actual network game matches. The third person shots are from a spectator camera, gameplay is first person. We expect to release a first person gameplay trailer soon. Assume this is coming to the 360 & PS3 since it’s developed on Unreal tech.
A visually stunning action RPG with a truly unique atmosphere
Conquer a host of nightmare creatures in action-packed battles, in the palaces, dungeons and dark alleyways of Venice
Use the advantages of the “Twilight World” and the ultimate powers of death
3D map architecture that allows for multi-dimensional game-play – from dungeons, streets, interiors, rooftops, water canals to the world of the dead
Dynamic night and day cycles that influence artificial life activities. Venice is a very different place after dark
An evil necromancer was able to trick Death and now strives for universal power. Only the daughter of death, whose existence was a secret until now, has the power to defeat the necromancer and restore the balance. Knowing nothing of her destiny at first, Scarlett has to learn about her special powers and become a mighty warrior, strong enough to defeat the greatest threat to the world of the living. Set in the fantastic world of long ago Venice, the young Scarlett falls victim to a te
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