Following up on the news that Firefly Studios is putting out “HD” versions of Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader, we now have more specifics to work with. This is actually coming in the form of free patches for owners of the aforementioned games (and also Stronghold Crusader Extreme) which will bump up the resolution cap from 1024×768 to 2560×1600.
That means you’ll have the option to view the full map on a single screen, a welcome feature for an older strategy series such as this. The studio has dedicated websites for both …

As I pointed out in my original Sleeping Dogs review, the game sorely lacked ghosts. Now there are ghosts.
Rejoice.

Sleeping Dogs: Nightmare in North Point (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC [Reviewed])Developer: United Front Games, Square Enix London StudiosPublisher: Square EnixReleased: October 30, 2012MSRP: $4.99 / 400 Microsoft Points
In the spirit of Undead Nightmare and Festival of Blood, Nightmare in North Point is a Halloween-inspired expansion that transforms 2012’s best free-roaming game into something much more sinister. Pummeling ghosts and driving fast cars makes for a good excuse to jump back into …

It’s unusual, to say the least, for us to spend a year with a product before publishing our review. In the case of Windows 8, we’ve written thousands of words already, starting with our first hands-on in September of 2011, followed by deep dives on the Developer Preview, Consumer Preview, Release Preview and RTM build. Even our readers have had ample time to get acquainted with the OS — it’s been available as a public download since February. And yet, we’ve never tested a final version of the …

[Getting It Right is a monthly series in which I take a look at the elements that make up a classic game. What were the key ingredients that set it apart and make it hold up to this day? Read on to find out.]
For a medium where a story can take you anywhere, videogames too often take a familiar route to the same place.
Where are we going this time? A nondescript desert in the Middle East? A futuristic metropolis that is either 20 percent or …

This month has been a tough one for Loot Drop, the developer behind Ubisoft Facebook game Ghost Recon Commander. Loot Drop co-founder (and newlywed) Brenda Brathwaite had her “Old-School RPG” Kickstarter canceled, and the developer’s biggest game, Ghost Recon Commander, will no longer continue.
Loot Drop posted the news on Facebook, also confirming that layoffs had hit as part of the cancelation. “As a result, we laid off a team of awesome developers. Coders, artists, amazing assistant designer, and awesome QA guy.” We’ve reached out to Ubisoft for comment and …

Paul Lamere, who earlier wrought havoc on Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” has trained his song-hacking sights on (what else?) “Gangnam Style,” the pop sensation from Korean popstar Psy that continues to sweep the globe and inspire awkward analogies. More »

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I love Pinball, as I’m sure readers of this blog are well aware. I’m also deeply affectionate for the Mistress of the Dark, Elvira, late-night spookshow queen of the eighties and nineties. So, it’s no surprise that I’m highly interested in picking up the latest release to The Pinball Arcade on PS3, as it brings the 1989 classic, Elvira and the Party Monsters table to their library of original machine simulations today as part of “Table Pack 6.”
Better still, the gang at FarSight Studios also secured the rights to release the …

The Pulse pen couldn’t do it. The more recent Echo couldn’t manage it either. But sending notes and linked audio wirelessly is what Livescribe‘s latest digital pen is all about. Branded the Sky WiFi Smartpen, it works with proprietary physical notebooks to preserve your handwritten notes and linked audio files on a minimum of 2GB of onboard storage, and then it sends them directly to your Evernote account via WiFi — from where you can access them on pretty much any PC, tablet or smartphone. If you’re wondering …

Cliify B, honcho behind the Gears of War series, recently became a free agent. Meanwhile at Capcom, Resident Evil 6 has been collecting some of the worst reviews in the series history, largely due to the game’s arguably failed attempts to play like other popular Western shooters (including Gears of War). It’s like if Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson just had a big fight, then Justin Bieber conveniently became single and bumped into Kristen at the club at the exact same time. Could it be fate?
Cliffy may think so, as he recently tweeted “Hey, …