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Realtime Worlds in Trouble

Dundee-based games company Realtime Worlds, most notable for Xbox 360 game Crackdown and recent PC game All-Points Bulletin, shocked the world by announcing that it was going into Administration this Monday, 16th August 2010, following the 60 redundancies made by the company the week before. It comes after disappointingly "lacklustre" sales of it's recent Microsoft Windows PC game, All-Points Bulletin. OMGN's own Jenner Cauton gave the game a...

Steam: Borderlands Midweek Sale

If you haven't gotten the chance to experience one of the best action RPG shooters yet, now's your chance.  This week only Steam will be selling Borderlands as well as all of it's DLC at 66% off.  The base game will be $10.19, with the whole package coming to $20.36.  Don't miss out.

Time of Defiance Shutting Down

Time of Defiance, a game that was one of OMGN's first reviews on our archived website, is shutting its doors. The game will be taken offline at the end of this month to make room for technological upgrades for Nice Technology Ltd. The company says these upgrades aren't compatible with Time of Defiance and that the time and effort required to make Time of Defiance compatible is unreasonable. The upgrades in question are for the company's newest...

Steam: Massive Summer Sales

The good thing with Steam is that it quite often has sales far better than what retail stores would ever get to, let alone afford. Some deals are as high as 80 percent off of select titles, or 75 percent to 50 percent off games that are only a year old. The bad thing is that these sales are often unannounced ahead of time and usually for only a weekend or a single day, so it pays to log in daily. So just a heads up to all Steam users, from June...

E3 2010: Nintendo Keynote Wrap-Up

With our coverage of the keynotes for Microsoft and Sony already wrapped up, we turn our attention to Nintendo, the last of the Big 3 hardware manufacturers. Opposite Sony's three-pronged approach and Microsoft's 360 Slim (and Kinect) announcements, Nintendo simply stood pat with one new piece of hardware and a slew of games. 3DS Nintendo unveiled its new 3DS, a variant of its popular DS portable gaming machine. This 3-D-enabled DS utilizes two...

E3 2010: Microsoft Keynote Wrap-Up

It's that time of year again. All the big gaming companies are now in Los Angeles, ready to bring us wonder and joy. Unfortunately, I'm not lucky enough to be there, and yet I still have the latest news from the Microsoft Keynote at E3. Let's take a look, shall we? Project Natal No-More: Microsoft Kinect it is, then Somehow, I knew Project Natal just wouldn't cut the ice. It was announced that "Project Natal" is over, to be replaced with ...

E3 2010: Sony Keynote Wrap-Up

With Microsoft and Nintendo having held their press conferences already, Sony seemed to have its work cut out for itself at its own press conference. While it might not hold up that well to its two rivals of the "Big 3," Sony had a good press conference for itself. The biggest news coming out of Sony's press conference are details on the Sony Move, 3-D support in upcoming Playstation 3 games and the creation of a new paid tier of its Playstation...

New Version of Glory of Fellowland Released

Glory of Fellowland, a free Flash, browser-based MMO strategy game, has released a new version as of April 1st, 2010. While adding more units to bring the number of listed items to 300 "sciences," 60 buildings, 50 units and 50 spells, the game update also re-balances the rules of the game to give beginners and casual players a better experience against the hardcore crowd. With the relaunch, Glory of Fellowland has given OMGN a promotional...

Portal 2's E3 Event Canceled

It appears that Portal 2 will no longer have its previously announced E3 event but will instead have a "surprise" put in place. Here's the email sent to members of the press: Dear Subject Name Here, Aperture Science is pleased to inform you that we have partnered with Valve to announce the gala CANCELLATION of the June 14 Portal 2 event at the Regal Theater. The event will be replaced by a surprise. And even though the cancellation of the event...