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The Incredible Machine Incredibly Returns
6:20AM Mike Fahey | The grandfather of the physics-based puzzle genre has come home to roost, as co-creator Jeff Tunnell regains the rights to The Incredible Machine, repackaging and re-releasing the classic series on GoG.com. More »
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Valve Sues Activision Over Sierra Monies
6:20AM Mike Fahey | Valve and Activision are doing the legal two-step, with the former suing the latter over royalties from a 2002 lawsuit against Sierra. More »
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Play Old Sierra Games, For Free, In Your Browser
3:30PM Luke Plunkett | There once was a time, before closures, before Lucasarts, when the name “Sierra” meant premium PC adventure gaming. Those days are, sadly, long gone. But they will not be forgotten! More »
THQ Picks Up 50 Cent Off The Ground
4:00PM Michael McWhertor | No, 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand isn’t dead, dead, dead. It’s alive! The game, orphaned by Activision Blizzard, has indeed been picked up by publisher THQ, according to a rating by Australia’s Office of Film and Literature Classification board. That’s the part we did get right when we reexamined 50’s fate. Honestly, though our interest in 50’s music begins and ends at “In Da Club” we can’t help but be warmed over by the ridiculousness of Blood On The Sand’s debut trailer. It’s brilliant. More »
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Sierra Closing 21 Game Servers
4:00PM Stuart Houghton | Now that Sierra has been swallowed by the maw of Actiblizzard, the great behemoth has spat out a few bones. On November 1st, Sierra will be closing 21 of its game servers, cutting off supports to games such as AvP2, Homeworld and Vampire. None of the games affected are hugely popular, but doubtless someone out there will be a bit put out by this. Comments, anyone? Full list after the jump. More »
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50 Cent: Blood on the Sand is Dead, Dead, Dead [Update]
12:00AM Brian Crecente | Remember 50 Cent II, the sequel to discography-cum-video game 50-Cent: Bulletproof? The game that Sierra named 50-Cent: Blood on the Sand? The one that has a love-interest, slick graphics and tons of blood? Yeah, it’s dead. Caught in the unflinching cogs of big video game business, mergers, and close downs, we hear. Victim of a flooded genre and a potential publisher with one too many shooters on its hands. But don’t cry for Fifty. We hear the G-Unit-sporting rapper got his appearance cash, while Swordfish, the team behind the budding game, is likely to get sold off. You gotta love this business. More »
PAX Ghostbusters Lanyards Were Ghosts Of The Past
2:20AM Mike Fahey | We were as puzzled as anyone as to why Penny Arcade Expo attendees were being given lanyards advertising the currently in limbo Ghostbusters: The Game. Who would go to all the trouble of getting so many promotional items made up for a game that has no publisher? People from the past, that’s who. According to Penny Arcade’s Robert Khoo, speaking to Variety, Sierra had signed up to sponsor the lanyards way back in January, delivered the product in June, only to find out weeks before the show that the game was no longer a going concern as far as far as ActiBlizzard was concerned. With little time left to get new lanyards together, the PAX folks just ran with it, thus creating the sad little Ghostbusters promotional items. There’s a bright side at least. As Variety’s Ben Fritz points out, whoever winds up publishing the game just got a boatload of free advertising courtesy of Sierra. The deal with those Ghostbusters lanyards at PAX [Variety] More »Sierra (?) Bringing Back Red Baron (!?!)
5:30PM Luke Plunkett | Hmmm. I first see this news, I get excited. After all, Red Baron – despite being 18 years old – is still the best damn World War 1 game around. But then I start asking myself questions. Like, aren’t Sierra dead? Wasn’t the whole point of the original Red Baron the fact is was steeped in historical accuracy? Why is this now an arcade shooter for the PlayStation Network where 17 bullets cause a battleship to explode? More »
Quest For Glory II Is Back, Yo
11:20PM Luke Plunkett | Quest for Glory II is the greatest adventure game of all time. That’s not opinion, either. It’s fact. Science. Only problem is, the game’s from 1990, so it’s also a little…rough. No more! Thanks to the team at AGD (who have also done fantastic restorations of the first two Kings Quest games), the game’s “quaint” old VGA graphics have been updated, the timing of the real-time puzzles have been made easier and dialogue is now taken care of via menus, instead of having to guess via text input. Oh, and it’s 100% free. In other words, the greatest adventure game of all time just got greater. Quest For Glory II [AGD, via IndieGames] More »
