Bergsala Lightweight, Sanrio, and Scarab Entertainment today announced that Hello Kitty Kruisers, a new kart racing game, is now available for mobile devices. Fans of the beloved pop icon will be able to race as Hello Kitty herself, or one of her Sanrio friends on land, over water, and through the air! With loads of cute characters, engaging tracks, and exciting new track challenges, this new... more.

Nordic Games announced today that players can conclude the story to the SpellForce 2 storyline with the final stand-alone add-on SpellForce 2 – Demons Of The Past, out today priced EUR/USD 19.99, GBP 17.99. The game is available as a boxed version and a digital version (online in the course of today on different ESD-platforms). The final instalment in SpellForce 2 brings the story to an... more.

Sega of America and Sega Europe today announced that its award-winning strategy game Company of Heroes 2 will receive a massive Steam promotion this weekend, including free offerings for new as well as current players. During the Steam Free Weekend, prospective new players now have the chance to try out the popular RTS (real time strategy) game by simply hitting “play” in their Steam libra... more.

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster... When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you...” Kidnapped. Imprisoned. Tortured. The wizard Irenicus holds you captive in his stronghold, attempting to strip you of the powers that are your birthright. Can you resist the evil within you, forge a legend of heroic proportio... more.

Square Enix today announced that Final Fantasy VI is now available on Google Play Store for $15.99, compatible with Android 3.2 and after (recommended OS should be after Android 4.0). Originally released in for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994, the game’s graphics have been recreated to bring the world of Final Fantasy VI to your mobile device for the very first time. One... more.

In the course of the next weeks, Daedalic Entertainment will release a series of video guides on their Facebook page which will show new players the ropes of the complex set of rules silently running in the background of Aventuria's world. The Dark Eye is Europe's most successful pen-and-paper system and has constantly expanded since its first appearance 30 years ago. For Blackguards, the wo... more.

Today, Oxide Games released a video of the Star Swarm engine demo shown at CES. The demo has Thousands of units running individual AI and physics in a dynamic simulation – so much PEW PEW PEW action we can hardly believe it! O_O Star Swarm is not a game, but rather a demo showing off the Nitrous engine and what it means for the future of strategy games. Nitrous is capable of simulating a... more.

Kalypso Media is pleased to announce that Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar, the historical real-time strategy title from Longbow Digital Arts, will be the first title released on its digital-first label Kasedo Games. Kasedo Games, formerly known as Kobalt Games, will release the game in spring 2014 for $19.99/£24.99/€29.99. Featuring environments based on satellite accurate terrain, f... more.

A Beta version of the Total War: Rome II Assembly Kit, a suite of mod-tools specifically designed to help modders get creative with Rome II, is free to download now in the Tools section of Steam. The Assembly Kit contains a series of tools to help modders edit Rome II’s database and variants, and process data such as textures, models, animations and campaign-game start positions. A suite of... more.

Valve kicked off its first-ever Steam Dev Days Conference by announcing the continued growth of Steam, a leading platform for PC, Mac, and Linux software. In addition, Valve detailed Steam's 2013 geographic performance to the more than 1,200 Dev Days attendees. In the trailing three months the number of active Steam accounts jumped 15%, to 75 million from 65 million (announced October 201... more.