Village Gamer

Hut hut! After 200 million games played across the chart-topping Big Win Sports franchise, the long awaited American Football game from Hothead is now available for free for iOS and Android gamers. Kick off the American Football season by creating your own dream team and then sit back and watch them crush your online competition. Use Big Impact cards to throw bombs, make game-changing interceptions, power through impenetrable defenses and much more. Read the rest of this entry »

Nintendo Canada announced the launch of two new software titles yesterday that will have people broadening their artistic horizons and deepening their love of creative wordplay. Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone! and Crosswords Plus are now available for the portable Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL systems, giving consumers a variety of fun ways to learn about how to draw and paint or challenge their puzzle-solving skills anytime, anywhere. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal-based Behaviour Interactive is celebrating its 20^th anniversary. Through the years, the studio has developed over 140 titles across all major platforms, from games based on leading brands for the whole family, like Tetris and Brave, to original IPs like Assault Heroes™, WET™ and Naughty Bear™ (one of my personal favourites) for a core gaming audience.  With today’s anniversary, the company emphasizes its focus on leading the independent gaming scene in Montreal through the development of games on mobile, online and on social networks, while continuing to offer exciting experiences on game consoles. Read the rest of this entry »

Game Publisher 505 Games has announced that Naughty Bear Panic in Paradise, the new action-adventure game from Behaviour Interactive starring everyone’s favourite sociopathic Teddy Bear, will make its debut this October 10th on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® and PlayStation®Network. You are invited to join our favourite anti-hero on Paradise Island as he tracks down his hit list of bears across 11 all-new, expanded locations and making full use of his brand new combat system, special attacks and ultra-kills galore. Read the rest of this entry »

Digital Emmy® Award-winning game developer Secret Location, in conjunction with Fresh TV Inc. and FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME), the commercial and brand extension arm of FremantleMedia, are taking a bite out of vampire-genre apps with the release of Humans VS Vampires, the official app for the hit show, My Babysitter’s a Vampire. Read the rest of this entry »

After releasing its successful videogame Timebuilders: Pyramid Rising, Quebecor Media subsidiary BlooBuzz is proud to launch the next episode of this adventure. Pyramid Rising 2 is now available on gaming portal Big Fish Games for PC and Mac. The first two games of the Timebuilders series: Caveman’s Prophecy and Pyramid Rising, have been sold in 120 countries and translated into eight languages, with a total of more than three million downloads. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver-based mobile game developer Hope This Works Games has unveiled their newest game Polara, a side scrolling platform running game, coming to iOS and Android devices. Polara turns the popular free-running platform genre on its head by introducing a color switching strategy, challenging players to do more than just dash and jump, as well as a compelling and immersive story line that keeps players hooked for more. You’ll need a fast eye and even faster reflexes to make your way through all 50 levels. Read the rest of this entry »

Players can now record, edit, save and share their own recordings in All Seeing Eye Games’ new title Recording Studio, available now on the Xbox LIVE indie games channel of Xbox LIVE Marketplace.  Recording Studio unleashes the full audio recording capabilities of the Xbox 360 headset, USB microphone and Kinect sensor to put a recording studio in the player’s living room for just 80 Microsoft Points – and you can try it before you buy it. Read the rest of this entry »

Winner of over 300 awards. Recipient of over 200 perfect scores. A universe that has expanded beyond games to comics, novels, apparel, collectibles, action figures and more. The Mass Effect franchise has become one of the most heralded series in video game history. EA BioWare has unveiled the Mass Effect Trilogy, a compilation of all three award-winning Mass Effect games in one box. Available in stores beginning November 6, 2012 for only $59.99, the Mass Effect Trilogy is the perfect holiday gift for longtime fans or friends who have yet to experience Commander Shepard’s epic journey to save the galaxy. Read the rest of this entry »

Funcom is excited to announce that the third content update for the company’s modern-day massively multiplayer online game ‘The Secret World‘ is now live. This is the third content update following the launch of ‘The Secret World’ less than three months ago, and it is part of the development team’s ambitious post-launch content plan. Since launch, the developers have added many new missions, the rocket launcher weapon, a plastic surgery clinic and a barbershop, a looking-for-group-tool and much, much more. And the latest update doesn’t just contain new content, but it also sets the stage for our first seasonal event! Read the rest of this entry »