New Title from Fire Hose Games: Go Home Dinosaurs! Playable at PAX

637d ago ... Feisty indie developer Fire Hose Games will be introducing their brand new title, Go Home Dinosaurs!, at PAX this coming weekend. Described as a fun, new take on tower defense players will piece together weapons shaped as puzzle pieces - all powered by tiny mammals - in an effort to defend against the invading menace: dinosaurs. Tower defense, gophers with lasers, dinosaurs and meteor shower...

Rusty Hearts Beta Keys and Phase 2

641d ago ... Just a heads up from PWE for those of you in the Beta, the Rusty Hearts server will go offline today, August 17 at 3pm PT/5pm CT until August 24 to make preparations for Phase 2 of closed Beta testing. They’ll be making some changes and adding some content based on the feedback thus far. If you’re not in the Beta yet, but want to be, we still have some keys – just contact me here: http://n...

August Contest Details

650d ago ... It's hard to believe July and its 100% summer awesomeness is behind us, but on the bright side: we're one month closer to fall game releases! To help you balance your budget, here are the contests for the month of August: LOYAL READER LOTTERY: We will continue our Loyal Reader Lottery! When you visit N4G at least once during every 24 hour period during the month of August you are entered in...

July Contest Winners

655d ago ... No drumroll needed, these are the winners for the month of July here on N4G! LOYAL READER LOTTERY: Our loyal reader lottery winners for the month of July: - THC CELL - SageHonor - Chug - Kran Each receives $75 Amazon Gift Cards! BEST USER BLOG: Congratulations, The Matrix! The Matrix's blog, "Features That All Video Games Should Have (part 1)", left the voters eager for part...

July Contest Details

683d ago ... Welcome to July, and happy leftover fireworks weekend for those of you in the U.S. and Canada! Here are the contests for July: LOYAL READER LOTTERY: Visit N4G at least once during every 24 hour period during the month of July and be entered into our Loyal Reader Lottery! If you want to keep track you can follow along with your Daily Visit score*, so if you want to make sure you've logged...

June Contest Winners

683d ago ... Woooooo!! I am very excited to announce the winners of our June Contests! LOYAL READER LOTTERY: 1-shanks 2-geralt 3-sinncross 4-psychotica

 Each of the four winners receive their choice of either the inFamous 2 Hero Edition or the Duke Nukem Forever Balls of Steel Edition, or an Amazon gift card. BEST USER BLOG: 
 There were a number of really great blogs this month, from hardc...

Rusty Hearts Limited Prize Pack Giveaway

690d ago ... Earlier today, Perfect World Entertainment announced that they will be showcasing Rusty Hearts at Anime Expo this weekend. In celebration, they are hosting a special Rusty Hearts Limited Prize Pack giveaway valued at $170 USD. Beginning on July 1 and ending on July 3, 11:59 pm PT, all players who redeem a Rusty Hearts closed beta key - or who have already redeemed a key will be entered to wi...

Skulls of the Shogun Hands-On (E3)

705d ago ... Another gem from the IndieCade booth, Skulls of the Shogun was one of the best games on the E3 floor. Described as an action-arcade strategy game that takes only the best parts of Advance Wars and Final Fantasy Tactics and mixes them in an arcade blender, Skulls of the Shogun is a turn-based RTS game. Get all that? There's more. Battling across the seasons with up to four player multiplayer, ea...

Bioshock Infinite Preview (E3)

705d ago ... If you're hoping to go into Infinite with a squeaky clean slate and an empty mind, don't read any further, the events discussed occur partway through the game. In a packed room of media there's a presentation of Bioshock Infinite - the story, the combat, the world. For those that need a little catching up, our main character, Booker DeWitt is a former Pinkerton agent - former because he play...

Akimi Village Hands-On at E3

706d ago ... Akimi Village, developed by Ninja Bee in conjunction with SOE is coming to your PS3 - and it takes all their Keflings know-how and brings it into a new, if very similar title. Dropped into Akimi Village with more questions than answers - about how you got there, for starters - you quickly become acquainted with a wise old raccoon-looking guy and a half dozen little Akimi, there to help you brin...

Desktop Dungeons Preview (E3)

706d ago ... Already an IGF winning title, many of you may not need me to tell you that there's an unassuming dungeon game you should be playing - Desktop Dungeons. Gracing the IndieCade booth, the title with roguelike roots from Cape Town developers Quarter Circle Forward (QCF) is available in Alpha build now for PC and Mac - but I got a glimpse of the future. Best described as an attractive, 2D, bite-s...

Skyrim Preview (E3)

707d ago ... Guests waiting to enter the Skyrim presentation were herded into a room within the Bethesda booth and challenged by a representative to make sense of the wall with dragon scrawl all over it, the same one gracing a GameInformer cover which has already been translated from Dragontongue to the decidedly more intelligible: Dragonborn, Dragonborn by his honor is sworn to keep evil forever at ba...

N4G E3 Predictions Contest Winners

707d ago ... Congratulations to our E3 Predictions Contest Winners! With your powers of foresight, we look forward to the day when you are analysts getting flamed on our front page! Skynidas won both Sony and Nintendo earning his choice of 2 of the following: a $20 PSN card or 1600 Xbox Live Points Card! Additionally, Skynidas was awarded the custom forum title "E3 Oracle"! LordMarius, with his new t...

May Contest Winners

707d ago ... Better late than never! Here are the winners of our May contests! If you're wondering what's up for grabs in June: http://n4g.com/user/blogpost/cat/517586 

LOYAL READER LOTTERY: 
 Winner: blusoops 

Prize: A 1-year subscription to GameFly! (2 games out at a time - subscription valued at over $200) 

 BEST USER BLOGS: 
Here are our winners of the May User Blog contest! Each gets the...

N4G June Contest Details

717d ago ... Welcome to June, and I hope you're all gearing up for E3 - and looking forward to what I'll be posting from E3 right here on this blog! Here are the contests for June: LOYAL READER LOTTERY: Visit N4G at least once during every 24 hour period during the month of June and be entered into our Loyal Reader Lottery! If you want to keep track you can follow along with your Daily Visit score*, so...

2011 Into the Pixel Winners Announced

726d ago ... Our first 2011 E3 N4G post, and it's all arty! The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences and the Entertainment’s Software Association today announced the winning pieces of the 2011 Into the Pixel collection. There are seventeen works in total that will join the permanent collections, and include artists from Naughty Dog, Insomniac Games, Valve Software, Bioware and Big Fish Games, to name a f...

April Contest Winners

749d ago ... Here's the proof, it wasn't an elaborate April Fools joke! Congratulations to the winners, and you can read about our May contests here: http://n4g.com/user/blogpost/cat/517348 Congratulations to the winner of the April LOYAL READER LOTTERY: Winner: Persistantthug (which, btw, I always read as "persistent hug" :D ) Prize: Nintendo 3DS Congratulations to the winner of the April FORUM L...

N4G May Contest Details

750d ago ... Happy May, everyone! Good luck to students finishing out the academic year, don't let finals get in the way of your N4G time! Here are the contests for May: LOYAL READER LOTTERY: 
Visit N4G at least once during every 24 hour period during the month of May and be entered into our Loyal Reader Lottery! If you want to keep track you can follow along with your Daily Visit score*, so if you want...

Gears of War 3 Beta Codes

763d ago ... Want into the Gears 3 Beta? Of course you do! Here's how N4G can make it happen for you: - Comment on this blog post with your avatar set to the Gears 3 character of your choice (want to check out the options? http://gearsofwar.xbox.com/GOW2/TheGame.htm#/characters/MarcusFenix ) - Tell us exactly why you need into the Beta. (This doesn't improve your chances with the random number g...

Perfect World Entertainment is giving away 25 3-Day passes to E3

768d ago ... Hey, guys! I know lots of you would love to go to E3, and the good news is more than just VGVN ( http://n4g.com/user/blogpost/cat/517157 ) are giving away passes! Perfect World Entertainment have built a community page for one of the two new games they'll be showing at E3 this year - Rusty Hearts. To enter, like the Rusty Hearts FB page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Rusty-Heart...