Orcs Must Die! Dev Robot Entertainment Working On New Games For 2012

Robot Entertainment, the studio behind 2011's Orcs Must Die! and Age of Empires Online has more to come in 2012. Orcs Must Die! studio Robot Entertainment has promised to reveal details of at least two new unnanounced games during the next 11 months. In a blog post titled "12 things to expect from Robot Entertainment in 2012," the developer wrote: "We’re currently hard at work on new ...

Romo the smartphone robot raises $1.5M, seeks world domination

Romo, a quirky smartphone robot with big ambitions Here's a novel way to pitch potential investors: "Do you realize how young we are? Do you realize that we're going to f**k up big time?!" And yet, that's exactly how Keller Rinaudo, the 24-year-old co-founder and CEO of robot maker Romotive , began his meetings with investors last fall. The upshot: Success way beyond what he had ever imagined ...

WanderPlayer Turns Your Phone Into A Controller For Flash Games

Android/iPhone and Windows/Mac: Many Flash-based games work better with a retro controller than a keyboard and mouse. The free app WanderPlayer turns your iPhone or Android phone into a controller that already works with 100 popular web games right now with more on the way. The games vary from Classic Mario to Cannonball (via AOL Kids) to Robot Unicorn (via Adult Swim). Many are retro-styled sid ...

Old Sony Patent Shows Controller Similar To The Wii U

VentureBeat.com has uncovered an old Sony patent that shows a device with similar functionality to the Wii U and the Kinect. The patent for the "Position-Dependent Gaming 3-D controller" was filed in 2010 and looks very similar to the Wii U's tablet controller. As you can see in the image above, it also looks capable of full body interaction with science fiction robot shooting games that feature ...

Origin Adds Games From 11 More Publishers

Electronic Arts Inc. announced today that Origin™, EA’s direct-to-consumer gaming platform, will soon feature PC downloadable games from Trion Worlds, Robot Entertainment and nine other game publishers.