Left 4 Dead’s $10M Ad Campaign

Half-Life house Valve Software is counting on a horde of living dead and tight co-op play to rake in the cash this holiday season with the horror shooter Left 4 Dead.

But the studio is trying to leave as little to chance as possible, as the firm told Edge exclusively on Thursday it will be spending [...]

“Tomb Raider Underworld” Nears Completion

Eidos Interactive has offically announced the November 18th, 2008 ship date for the highly anticipated, upcoming entry to the illustrious Tomb Raider franchise, Tomb Raider: Underworld, throughout North America. The game will ship to retailers simultaneously for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, and PC.

Tomb Raider: Underworld marks the first [...]

Hendrix getting his own Guitar Hero?

By TomM_GScom
Source: A Rolling Stone interview, as interpreted by various gaming blogs.
What we heard: Just getting a song in a rhythm game is so Guitar Hero 2. Now, to be a true rock god, musicians aspire to having an entire Guitar Hero game devoted to their expansive catalogs. Thus far, that pantheon is populated [...]

Big Fish Games raises $83 million venture round for downloadable games

The party is on for video game entrepreneurs. Big Fish Games just raised the bar for industry by reeling in a huge venture round by video game standards.
The Seattle-based casual downloadable games company raised $83 million in a first round of financing from Balderton Capital, General Catalyst Partners, and Salmon River Capital. That’s the biggest [...]

Pinch hitting for Football Manager

Words: John Walker, PC Gamer UK
Out of the Park Baseball 9, or OotPB 9 for short, is a comprehensive, astonishingly intricate sim. It’s just one that doesn’t have a friendly way in for new players. A newbie approaching Football Manager now would be daunted by the sheer scale of the thing, and it’s much the [...]