Tommy-Tronic posts

The weekend, and indeed the end of the month, is fast approaching. We have plans to check out Darkspore. What about you?

• Steam has new automatic updates for Tommy Tronic, Cities in Motion, Team Fortress 2, The Settlers 7 and Sol Survivor.
• The country of Australia is thinking about replacing the R15+ game rating to R18+ but there's a catch.
• IGN has posted up a preview of the Free Comic Book Day edition of The Darkness II comic.
• Do you want a Duke Nukem Papercraft doll? Of course you do.
• Portal + Super Mario = This video.

It's been a publisher that has been living off the revenues of its previous titles for the past several years but this week Interplay announced that it was returning to publishing all new titles from third party developers. The new Interplay Discovery publishing brand will begin with two casual titles that will both come out sometime in October.

One is Pinball Yeah, a (natch) pinball title from Portugal-based developer CodeRunners that will be released for the PC and Mac. The other is Tommy Tronic, a 2D platformer title from Ukrainian developer Oasis Games that will be a PC exclusive. Interplay is looking for other "complete or nearly completed" games to publish, saying that Interplay's team "can help developers through the finalization, optimization, approval and publishing processes."

[Via Blue's News and Duck And Cover]