Create a new game with Construct 2, or port an existing one, and successfully publish it to the Windows 8 Store by June 21st to be entered in to the competition. Allow a week for the store submission to complete, so try to get your entries submitted to the store by June 14th.

Prizes

• 1st: a Windows 8 touch device, a Windows Phone 8 HTC 8X and a Construct 2 Business license
• 2nd: a Windows 8 touch device and Construct 2 Personal license
• 3rd: a Windows Phone 8 HTC 8X and Construct 2 Personal license
• 4th-10th: a Construct 2 Personal license

In addition to the above prizes, the top fifty entries will also receive a $100 voucher that can be redeemed in the Scirra Store! That’s right, there are 50 of these available!

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The President of the United States is often called the most powerful man in the world. Now it is literally true, as the leader of the Saints it is up to you for use your (political?) powers to lay the smackdown on an invading alien armada.

PR spiel: Today Deep Silver and Volition released a simultaneously awesome & terrifying new trailer showcasing all-new in-game footage for the upcoming Saints Row IV for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC platforms. As the President of the United States of ‘Merica, you are a presidential ass-kicker delivering justice Saints-style to the invading alien empire, the Zin. Your out of this world powers are second-to-none, as is your ability to deliver a perfect nut-shot. BOOM.

About Saint’s Row IV: In Saints Row IV, the head honcho of the Saints has been elected to the Presidency of the United States. But the Saints are just getting started. Now the larger-than-life insanity of the Saints series gets a new twist with a catastrophic alien invasion, and the aliens have transported the Saints to a bizarro-Steelport simulation. Wield gargantuan superpowers and fight to free humanity from alien granddaddy Zinyak’s mental grasp. Escape the simulation that’s trapped the Saints crew, or die trying. Saints Row IV lets players delve into an arsenal of alien weaponry and technology that will turn each Saint into an ultimate entity of destruction. Utilize out-of-this-world superpowers to fight all the way to the top. With intensified action and enhanced customization, players can use their newfound superpowers and leap over buildings, outrun the fastest sports cars, or send enemies flying with telekinesis in the greatest, most insane installment of Saints Row yet.

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Starting today, gamers can begin exploring Amami City, the setting where technology and otherworldly forces meet in a macabre fusion of cyberpunk and gothic horror in Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (Soul Hackers), an ATLUS-developed product. Published by ATLUS, a brand of Index Digital Media, Inc., Soul Hackers is now widely available at retailers and in the Nintendo eShop in North America for the first time; the original version of Soul Hackers was released in 1997 only for the Japanese markets. The new release of Soul Hackers is exclusive to the Nintendo 3DS™ system, and is available for $39.99. Pre-orders and gamers who purchase the first printing of the title at launch will receive a limited edition music CD, which consists of six fan-voted tracks that are inspired by the original Soul Hackers soundtrack.

Soul Hackers takes place in the not-so-distant future in Amami City, a technological marvel. The city is permeated by Paradigm X, a virtual reality world that connects the entire populace. When the main character attempts to hack his way in to Paradigm X, he accidentally comes into possession of a Gun-type COMP (GUMP) that allows him to communicate with, and control demons. It also causes the main character’s girlfriend to get possessed by the demon Nemissa, which is when the secret Phantom Society organization begins to take notice…

Soul Hackers is a first-person RPG in the same vein as other games in the Shin Megami Tensei franchise. The graphical style remains faithful to the original 1997 version but is optimized with 3-D graphics for the Nintendo 3DS system. The bottom touch screen of the Nintendo 3DS will function as the GUMP interface, allowing players to change the difficulty of the game on the fly, along with various other gameplay-modifying hacks that are revealed throughout the game.

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CRIME CONNECTION is a social crime simulation game in which players assume the role of an ambitious gang leader, battling rival gangs to expand their turf and rise to the top of the underworld hierarchy.

Rebuild Sunlight City as you see fit!
The action in CRIME CONNECTION takes place in Sunlight City, a glittering neon metropolis with a dark side. Players adopt a corner of the city as their base of operations, taking on missions and expanding their influence. Along the way, players will encounter characters and organizations both friend and foe as they construct housing and businesses in an effort to collect funds and materials to support their criminal racket. Clever and strategic expansion is needed if players are to grow in power and leave their mark on the city!

Rule the Streets with Intense Battles!
In CRIME CONNECTION, players can use the buildings they’ve constructed to recruit and train the meanest gangsters Sunlight City has ever seen. These gangsters can then be led into battle against rivals, with the winner taking over the losing gang’s territory. Build your own hardened fighting force and show your enemies who runs this town!

Compete with Rival Gangs in Online Battles!
In CRIME CONNECTION, player-led gangs from around the world battle for control in a deadly online struggle. Players can form alliances with others and challenge their rivals to combat, with the victor taking home various rewards. Climb the ranks and you may be the next Godfather!

Crime Connection on Google Play

Crime Connection on App Store

Popular mini-games such as pool, bowling and darts return to GTA IV to serve as “breathers” from the game’s intense storyline. Unfortunately, a poker minigame wasn’t added, disappointing a lot of gamers in the process. The fans’ reaction to the exclusion of a poker minigame was confusing since websites like partypoker.com could provide a better experience than from a videogame. When you play online, you compete against “real” players unlike those computer generated ones in GTA. Also, have I already mention that you can win money in online poker? Poker sites give a decent amount of prize money for the winners and also for the losers. Can you get money from GTA? I guess not.

In 2009, Rockstar released two expansion packs namely The Lost and the Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony for GTA IV. The expansion packs also featured new protagonists, Johny Kleibitz for Lost and the Damned and Anthony “Gay Tony” Prince for Ballad of Gay Tony. Both add-ons have different storylines and characters from the main GTA IV arc, giving the game a fresher look.

Hopefully in the next GTA, they would also do the same with the DLCs (downloadable content). Other Rockstar games like Red Dead Redemption also had a number of added content which maximized the game’s potential. With the current trend in Rockstar, we can already expect a good amount of expansion packs already for GTA V.

March is shaping up to be a bumper month for videogame releases, not least of which is the latest offering from the Sly Cooper series, Thieves in Time. The game uses its time-travelling premise to whisk the player off to some historically-inspired environments, like the Wild West, medieval England and feudal Japan. It’s a great excuse for the developers to let their historical imaginations run wild. Thieves in Time isn’t the first game to use the concept of time travel in this way, either; games like Timesplitters have also used it as a plot device or set-up for an overarching story.

Arguably the coolest time travel games, however, are the ones that use it as a unique gameplay mechanic, implementing it in such a way that the manipulation of time is central to your success or failure. Without further ado, then, it’s time to fire up the flux capacitor: we’re going back to look at some of the best time travel games ever made.

5. Command and Conquer: Red Alert

The original Red Alert provides a great test case for the tablet vs laptop debate, having been adapted and released on tablets 14 years after the original PC release. Thankfully, it’s just as much of a blast on mobile devices as it is on PC. This is thanks in no small part to the ridiculous time-travelling storyline, in which Albert Einstein goes back to 1924 and erases Adolf Hitler from existence using his ‘Chronosphere’ device (seriously). Cue alternate-timeline Soviet expansionism, frantic tank battles and hilariously over-the-top cutscenes. Best of all are the levels in which the player must use the Chronosphere to teleport mission-critical items and vehicles across the map. How cool is that? Don’t use the Chronosphere too often, though; each use carries a small risk of creating a deadly ‘chrono vortex’.

4. Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time

No list of time travel videogames would be complete without mentioning Ocarina of Time. The game features a mechanic that allows the player to switch between ‘Young Link‘ and ‘Adult Link’ at various points. This allows for some very interesting puzzle scenarios, such as switching to Young Link in order to crawl through a small passageway, or choosing Adult Link in order to be able to use special items like the Fairy Bow. But while OOT is arguably the best game on this list, it isn’t the best use of time travel in a game, which is the only reason it isn’t further up.

3. Braid

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time introduced the gaming world to the concept of ‘rewinding’ gameplay to correct a mistake by the player. Jonathan Blow‘s arthouse hit Braid takes this idea and runs with it, having not only rewinding, but also a whole host of other cool time-bending mechanics – levels in which time flows in reverse, and objects which affect the flow of time around them, among others. The result is a game that, on the surface, appears to be a simple Mario-esque 2D platformer, but is actually a fiendish puzzle game which becomes head-scratchingly complex in the later levels. 

2. Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle

The entirety of Day of the Tentacle‘s gameplay takes place in the ‘Mansion’ of the title. In the game, super-geek Bernard and his friends Hoagie and Laverne are separated and transported across time by a malfunctioning time machine. As well as being a brilliant setup for the plot, the time machine also acts as a pivotal puzzle-solving device. The main characters can send each other items across time, and the ability to change something in the past to alter the present is inspired. This mechanic, when combined with the game’s light-hearted atmosphere, leads to some gloriously demented puzzles, such as Hoagie altering the wording of the US Bill of Rights to provide a vacuum cleaner to present-day Bernard. Yes, really.

1. Chrono Trigger

Most role-playing games of the 16-bit era featured expansive world maps and various towns to explore. Chrono Trigger, however, unlike its contemporaries, took a different approach. The main character, Crono, and his friends must travel across time in order to prevent a global apocalypse that occurs in A.D. 1999. As a result, the player explores the same (relatively small) world, but during various different time periods. Not only can the player travel as far back as prehistoric times, but they can also go forward and explore the post-apocalyptic wasteland that the world will become, should the party fail in their quest. Forget Marty McFly and Doctor Who; Chrono Trigger is the ultimate time-travelling experience.

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There are many friendly forms of gambling such as poker, black jack, and even bingo, which is favored by some churches, which often seem to frown on such activities. Bingo has also become popular on the Internet as there are many places such as www.partybingo.com that offer players the opportunity to play online.

Wikipedia states about the history of bingo:

The game of bingo can be traced back to a lottery game called “Il Giuoco del Lotto d’Italia” played in Italy in c.1530. By the eighteenth century, the game had matured, and in France, playing cards, tokens, the reading out of numbers had been added to the game. In the nineteenth century, Bingo was widely used in Germany for educational purposes to teach children spelling, animal names, and multiplication tables.

Le Lotto was then subsequently created by the French in 1778. This unique lotto variation featured 27 squares in a unique layout of three rows and nine columns. The numbers within the boxes ranged from 1 through 90. Only five squares within each row contained numbers which subsequently led to the design of modern day bingo.

Hugh J. Ward standardized the modern game at carnivals in and around the Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania areas in the early 1920s. He went on to copyright “Bingo” and author the rule book on it in 1933.

The game was further popularized when at a traveling carnival near Atlanta in December 1929, toy merchandiser Edwin Lowe noticed how engaged the players were of a Beano game using Ward’s rules and dried beans, a rubber stamp, and cardboard sheets. Lowe took the idea with him to 1930′s New York where he introduced the game to his friends. He conducted bingo games similar to the ones he had witnessed and Ward had standardized, using dried beans, a rubber numbering stamp and card board. His friends loved the game. One theory on the origin of the name is that one of his players made bingo history when he was so excited to have won that he yelled out “Bingo” instead of “Beano.” However the word was used in Great Britain since the 1770s and had migrated to the Pittsburgh region at least a generation before Lowe’s 1930′s claim.

The Lowe produced Bingo Game had two versions; the first a 12-card set for $1.00, the second a $2.00 set with 24 cards. Bingo was a wild success. By the 1940s Bingo games were all over the country. Lowe had many competitors he requested that they pay $1.00 a year to conduct the games and to use the name Bingo.

All in all there has been a resurgence of Bingo over the years, with it’s easy play style and social nature, it is no surprise that Bingo is not just for churches anymore…

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Square Enix and Eidos Montréal, the award winning studio behind the critically acclaimed Deus Ex: Human Revolution, today unveiled THIEF for high-end PC’s and next generation consoles. THIEF is the reinvention of a franchise that helped define an entire genre of games.

Time has moved on. Power has shifted. New greed replaces the old.
But to remain free in the city of chains – that is still the greatest prize.
First I stole to survive… then I survived to steal.
I am one man; I hear your secrets, see your hidden truths.
I am the shadows, the dark and deadly, the velvet night. You will not see me coming.

I am Garrett….What’s yours is mine.

There is a rising tide of fear in The City. Hatred saturates every stone and whilst the rich prosper, the less fortunate face misery and repression. Ravaged with sickness and famine, they wait for something to change.

Into this shadowy world steps Garrett, THE master thief in a first-person adventure featuring intelligent design that allows players to take full control, with freedom to choose their path through the game’s levels and how they approach and overcome each challenge.

“We’re handling a precious gemstone with THIEF. Fans remember the original games very fondly and we want to preserve that essence which we have excellent experience of doing at Eidos Montréal, whilst also introducing THIEF to a brand new, next-generation, audience,” said Stephane D’Astous, General Manager, Eidos Montréal. “Our goal is to deliver the fantasy of being Garrett, the master thief, and we’re building this game around that core experience.”

Exclusive coverage and developer interviews can be found in Game Informer’s April issue. Additionally, visit GameInformer.com/thief throughout the month for on-going coverage.

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The PC version of Brütal Legend just launched today on Steam, and to celebrate we’re giving away a free copy! The Giveaway is being hosted over at Gala Giveaways for 2,000 points, and you can enter up to ten times! So head on over and get yourself entered. The giveaway ends at mindnight GMT on March 1st. And if you don’t have an account yet, sign up. All you need is a minimum of $30 worth of purchases on your Steam account to qualify.

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