Archive for May, 2008

Cooking Academy Released For Mac

May 30, 2008 2:52 PMMacgamestore today announced the availability of Cooking Academy for the Mac on its web site. Developed by Fugazo, Inc, Cooking Academy teaches you how to master the skills of chopping, flipping, frying, and more! Grab your oven mitts and don your Chef’s Hat! Cooking Academy is t…

Depths Of Peril Demo Available, Full Version Coming Soon

May 30, 2008 3:11 PMSoldak Entertainment has announced the release of a demo for the upcoming Mac version of its without player RPG, Depths of Peril. The full version is planned for release “within a week”. In the game players take the role of a faction leader protecting the barbarian city, Jorvik. …

Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff screens and video released


For all the gamers out there who spent massive amounts of day huddled around their Super Nintendo in the 90’s playing Super Tecmo Bowl with friends, rejoice: a new Tecmo Bowl experience is coming.
This September will see the release of Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff for the Nintendo DS, and the screensh…

IMG Reviews Fable: The Lost Chapters

May 30, 2008 8:03 AMInside Mac Games has posted a review of the much-anticipated port of Fable: The Lost Chapters from Feral Interactive. Here’s a clip from the review:Thankfully, the main gameplay of F:LC is extremely entertaining whether you simply disregard the alignment system. that is mainly du…

Penny Arcade breaks XBLA sales record

The first installment of the episodic Penny Arcade game, “On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness,” has broken the three-day sales record for an initial offering on Xbox Live Arcade by earning $330,000 by that duration. The previous record holder was Worms HD.
The sales figures for the …

Upcoming DS game helps smokers quit


Nintendo has distant been carving a niche by bringing product to gamers that fills a casual or lifestyle role, and the trend will continue with a new game coming for the DS designed to help smokers break the habit.
The game will adapt the method pioneered in Allen Carr’s “Easy Way to St…

Sid Meier Listed In Guinness World Records

May 30, 2008 6:00 AMSid Meier, legendary game developer and creator of the popular Civilization series, has been listed in the 2008 Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition as the game creator who has won more awards than any other designer in the industry.Sid Meier?s awards for his game design genius…

Flash Vulnerability A Potential Danger For WoW Players

May 30, 2008 6:00 AMOn its website Blizzard Entertainment has warned World of Warcraft users of an Adobe Flash vulnerability which could potentially be used to target player accounts. Although the latest version of Flash (9.0.124.0) corrects the problem, Blizzard has decided to temporarily disable t…

Custer Knights Another Desktop

May 30, 2008 6:00 AMThis week’s desktop, courtesy of IMG’s own Brad Custer, features the highly anticipated expansion pack, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, from Blizzard Entertainment.Here’s what Brad had to say:The regular updates about World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King from Bliz…

New Nations For Dominions 3: The Awakening

May 30, 2008 6:00 AMShrapnel Games has announced the release of a new patch for Dominions 3: The Awakening, Illwinter Game Design’s third installment in the turn-based fantasy war game series. The patch brings the feature rich game to version 3.17, introduces three new nations, a new spell, and adds…

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