System Shock 2, Riddick and Banished free when spending in GOG Big Fall Sale
SpaceChem 70 pence! SimCity 2000 and Sensible World of Soccer £1.50!
The GOG Big Fall Sale - autumn sale - has begun, and again offers free games at certain spending thresholds. At £3.29 you get the revered System Shock 2; at £9.79 the solid Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena; and at £19.49 Banished (which presumably has had a lot of work done since we looked at it).
Vin Diesel announces new Chronicles of Riddick game
Escape from Butcher Bay team on board.
Mr. Riddick himself, Vin Diesel, has spilled the beans on a third game in the Chronicles of Riddick series.
The untitled installment is being developed by Starbreeze team members who worked on 2004 prequel Escape from Butcher Bay, which expanded the Riddick movie series' world with its own story.
Diesel's own team at Tigon Studios will also work on the new project, Screencrush reported (thanks, OXM).
Syndicate dev's next game is F2P Cold Mercury
Seeks distribution deal for P13 project.
The developer of The Darkness, Riddick and Syndicate is making a free to play game called Cold Mercury.
Starbreeze signs Unreal Engine 3 deal
Will Syndicate reboot use Epic's tech?
Starbreeze, maker of The Chronicles of Riddick and The Darkness - and the developer rumoured to be behind EA's unconfirmed Syndicate revival, has signed a long-term licensing deal to use Gears of War engine Unreal Engine 3.
Starbreeze alumni using id Tech 5.
ZeniMax Media - the company that owns Bethesda, id, Arkane and Tango - has bought another studio: MachineGames.
Tigon: Hollywood needs to wake up
Videogames are "the Field of Dreams".
Ian Stevens, boss of Vin Diesel's production company Tigon, believes videogames are "the Field of Dreams", and that Hollywood needs to start treating them as more than the proverbial action figure.
Vivendi didn't believe in Riddick, claims Tigon
"Nobody really gave a sh*t."
Vin Diesel's production company Tigon Studios has recalled the struggle that The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay had finding an audience, because "nobody" - not even publisher Vivendi - "really gave a sh*t".
PSN update: demos, DLC, more demos
inFamous! Marvel vs. Capcom! Red Gorillas!
There are demos aplenty on the PS3 Store this weekend, including tasters for inFamous, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and Marvel vs. Capcom 2.
There's plenty more content for existing PS3 games as well. The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena gets a map pack as does F.E.A.R. 2. There are some monster-themed costumes and level-making tools for LittleBigPlanet, plus some special Live recordings by Alice Cooper for Rock Band. Alice, remember, is a man. It's so confusing.
Also, note the excellent puzzler Fading Shadows for download on PSP. This costs 12 quid but is well worth the money. Pop over to our Fading Shadows review to find out more.
UK charts: Wii Fit on top yet again
Newcomer Riddick overshadowed at two.
Nintendo's Wii Fit tops the UK All-Formats chart for the 13th time this week, edging closer to the 18-week all-time record set by Who Wants to be a Millionaire? in 2001.
But wants to eventually remove it.
Atari has defended the decision to use DRM to protect the PC version of The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, claiming only 10 per cent of owners have used one of their three installations, and only four people have been unable to play because of the anti-piracy measures.
Riddick team working on Bourne game
Multiplayer confirmed for Starbreeze thriller.
Starbreeze has confirmed to Eurogamer that the Chronicles of Riddick team is creating the upcoming Bourne project for EA.
Diesel "begged" for Riddick multiplayer
Added it late in development.
Actor and games magnate Vin Diesel has revealed that he "begged" for developer Starbreeze to include an online multiplayer mode in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.
Coming to PSN soon.
Atari and Starbreeze have made a 360 demo of imminent Riddick reboot, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, available on Xbox Live.
Atari dates Riddick: Dark Athena
Vin Diesel returns in late April.
Atari has stamped a 24th April release date on The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.
Riddick: Dark Athena will be 20 hours long
Atari reveals details as March launch nears.
Atari has confirmed that the new Riddick: Dark Athena campaign will indeed be 11 hours long, after suggesting a similar figure to uslast December.
New Riddick content "about 11 hours"
More than just an expansion.
Atari has said that Assault on Dark Athena, the new adventure built on top of Escape from Butcher Bay, lasts about 11 hours, is based on an upgraded
True Riddick sequel "couple of years out"
Dark Athena is "episodic expansion".
Vin Diesel's Tigon Studios has said it sees upcoming Riddick title Assault on Dark Athena as an "episodic expansion", revealing that work on a true sequel to the 2004 Xbox classic is already underway.
Speaking to Eurogamer TV at the recent Atari Live event in London, Tigon head of production Ian Stevens said: "We've really tried to maintain that core experience [of the original] and embellish it for Assault on Dark Athena, which we see very much as an episodic expansion of Escape From Butcher Bay.
"We're not calling it a sequel; we've got a sequel in mind that's a couple of years out if you guys want it, and you like this and you tell us you want more."
New details emerge of Riddick multiplayer
Has Pitch Black and CS-style modes.
Starbreeze plans to put a creepy Pitch Black multiplayer mode in Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, where one person becomes likes-the-dark Riddick, while the others are bog standard guards with guns and torches.
But if those guards manage to take down the stealthy hunter Riddick, then they become him next round, according to Official Xbox Magazine. "Athena him!"
Dark Athena will sport regular 12-player deathmatch and capture the flag. There's also an appealing Butcher Bay Riot mode that has three teams of four battle to be the first to activate a central power cell.
New Riddick game coming next spring
Will feature an entirely new campaign.
Atari has picked up the publishing rights to The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.
The Darkness dev reworking EA franchise
"Innovative take on a classic property."
Electronic Arts has secured the talents of Swedish developer Starbreeze to rework one of its major franchises for PC, PS3 and 360.
You lot to blame.
Sierra Entertainment has pushed back the release of The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena to 2008.
More content, multiplayer.
Starbreeze has confirmed its working on a next-gen makeover of The Chronicles of Riddick.
