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Free-to-play PC title Forza Motorsport 6: Apex isn’t going to be the last game from the racing franchise to appear on the platform. That’s according Dan Greenawalt, Forza developer Turn 10’s creative director, who says in a video (below) that the Forza series will be appearing on both Xbox and …
Read More »Developer cancels Wii U game after Nintendo fires employee in online abuse row
Necrosoft Games has cancelled a planned Wii U title after Nintendo fired marketing employee Alison Rapp. Rapp has been the victim of online abuse and a smear campaign from certain online hate groups. She has been held accountable by these groups for Nintendo’s recent decisions to better localise its games …
Read More »What do the developers think of PlayStation VR?
There are some 230 companies working on PlayStation VR games, including the likes of From Software, 2K Games, Capcom and Konami. Even EA is now on board with its Star Wars Battlefront VR experience. We speak to some of developers making games for the brand new tech to see if …
Read More »Free PSN Fallout 4 Season Passes revoked
A number of gamers who thought they’d grabbed the Fallout 4 Season Pass for free last week are out of luck. The 39.99 download, which gives access to the RPG’s future DLC, suddenly had its price reduced to a quite bargainous 0.00 last week, leading to a flurry of stories …
Read More »Popular speedrunner has Mario Maker levels wiped by Nintendo
Nintendo’s turbulent relationship with the online games community continues to fumble along. Kotaku reports that the platform holder has seen fit to wipe clean all of the Mario Maker levels created by speedrunner David ‘GrandPOObear’ Hunt. Streaming Mario Maker is 90 per cent of my stream, which is 90 per …
Read More »"People thought I was insane" – The rise of Video Games Live
The first time I did Video Games Live, everyone thought I was completely insane,” begins Tommy Tallarico, founder and composer of the touring symphony that specialises in video game music. When we did our first show, I did it at the Hollywood Bowl with the LA Philharmonic. Critics were saying: …
Read More »Bigger than Star Wars: Is Yo-kai Watch about to conquer Europe?
Forget NX and smartphone games – the product that might just come to define Nintendo’s 2016 is a 3DS title. Yo-kai Watch is a monster of a Japanese phenomenon. Created by Level-5 (the company responsible for the Professor Layton series), the last Yo-kai Watch movie attracted more viewers in its …
Read More »Pokémon series has sold over 279m units worldwide
The blockbuster Pokmon series has sold over 279 million units globally since it debuted in Japan 20 years ago. This impressive figure comes by way of a press release from The Pokmon Company (translated by NeoGAF’s JoeM86– thank you), which claims that the pocket monster series has hit that sales …
Read More »Yoshida: Connecting Xbox Live and PSN could be easy technically
PlayStation Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has said that the technical side of linking PlayStation Network and Xbox Live could be the easiest. Speaking to Eurogamer at GDC, Yoshida reiterated what was said in Sony’s statement to GameSpot yesterday that it was in favour of supporting cross-platform play – and …
Read More »PlayStation VR can be used with non-virtual reality PS4 games in ‘cinematic mode’
Sony’s brand new PlayStation VR tech will be able to play games and watch video that were not designed for virtual reality. In a press release – as reported by Polygon – PlayStation announced that the tech has a cinematic mode which allows users to play games and watch video …
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