Steam Trading Cards – Beta Launches Today

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Steam Trading Cards, a new service that rewards gamers for gaming on Steam. Released in beta today, Steam Trading Cards allows customers to earn Steam rewards for playing the games they love. Those wh... more.

11 bit studios unleashes Anomaly 2 on Steam and Anomaly2Game.com. The sequel to the award-winning Anomaly Warzone Earth, Anomaly 2 is the ultimate tower offense vs. tower defense experience for PC, Mac and Linux, and it's just $13.49 for the first week. Buying the game at Anomaly2Game.com also gets you Anomaly Korea, available for the first time ever on PC. From Warsaw, Poland-based 11 bit... more.

Paradox Interactive, a publisher of games and a shooter of screens, today released the first-ever screenshots for Magicka: Wizard Wars, the 4-on-4 team-based PvP title from their new studio, Paradox North. Using an untested image-capturing spell that may or may not have stolen the souls of every wizard pictured in the new screens, Paradox is more than willing to take that risk in order to give... more.

Renown indie development team Coffee Stain Studios announced today that Sanctum 2, the sequel to the first-ever true hybrid of tower-defense and first-person shooter genres, is now available worldwide on Xbox Live for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PC. “We built Sanctum 2 from the ground up, creating stunning visuals while keeping everything th... more.

Today we are pleased to release a new trailer for DARK, our upcoming vampire-themed stealth/action title for the Xbox 360 and Windows PC. In the new trailer, you'll get a close-up look at several of the vampire powers available to you, as the newly turned vampire, Eric Bane. Watch as Eric hypnotizes unsuspecting guards to slip past them or deliver a deadly strike. Or, use Regeneration ... more.

Today Codemasters released a new Grid 2 gameplay video that showcases the game’s intense Drift events and reveals key Asian locations, including the addition of Hong Kong, set to feature in the game. The “World Series Racing 3: Asia – New Frontiers” video focuses on the Asian cars, clubs and locations set to star in Grid 2. Racers earn points for style and form in Drift events on... more.

Deep Silver today released Metro: Last Light: The highly anticipated sequel to the extraordinary Metro 2033 is now available in North America for PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and Windows PC. Within the rest of the world, the first person shooter will be available from May 17, 2013. “We are happy to release Metro: Last Light and very confident with the quality of the game” said Menno va... more.

Global video game publisher 505 Games and leading independent developer Overkill Software, a Starbreeze Studio, are pleased to announce that the upcoming title PayDay 2, sequel to the 2011 hit PayDay: The Heist, will no longer be limited to digital download and will now additionally be released globally at retail for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Game Director on PayDay 2 David Goldfarb s... more.

It is now the dawn of the Eighteenth Century…” Assassin’s Creed games have always been designed with real history as its backdrop. In the latest Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag trailer, gamers get a glimpse into the Golden Age of Piracy, when men of fortune sought riches and pirates of legends like Benjamin Hornigold, Calico Jack, Charles Vane and Blackbeard ruled the treacherous high seas... more.

CD Projekt RED announces the launch of REDkit, the ultimate set of tools for crafting non-linear role-playing adventures. Available for free via http://thewitcher.com/redkit, REDkit is based on the development tools used to create CD Projekt RED’s award-winning game, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. The editor has just entered its open beta phase, allowing everyone who is waiting for ... more.