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The team behind Ecco the Dolphin has launched a Kickstarter campaign for The Big Blue, a spiritual successor of the 1992 Sega-published classic. The Kickstarter page unveils the title as an all new underwater action adventure title, with Ecco’s original designer Ed Annunziata heading up the campaign that’s seeking $665k …
Read More »Limbo revealed for Vita, lands later this year
Playdead’s macabre platformer Limbo is heading to PS Vita, Sony announced today at GDC. The indie hit will land on Sony’s handheld sometime later this year, but beyond that, no specific release target was mentioned. Limbo originally launched on XBLA in 2010, with PS3, PC, and Mac ports following suit. …
Read More »UPDATED: Edge editor Wiltshire is leaving Future
Alex Wiltshire, the current editor of Future’s Edge magazine, is to leave the publication at the end of the month. The news comes from upcoming games conference Launch, which says Wiltshire is leaving to work as a freelance writer and consultant on video games for developers and institutions including the …
Read More »Kotaku sticks it to the man with light-hearted dig at exclusive BioShock: Infinite review
The piece may be tagged ‘humor’, but Kotaku’s BioShock Infinite: The IGN Review: The Kotaku Review” has a serious point at heart. The international review embargo for 2K Games’ BioShock: Infinite doesn’t lift until Monday, the day before the game’s release. However, IGN has been given the nod to run …
Read More »Bastion developer Supergiant unveils Transistor
Supergiant Games – developer of the multi-award winning indie gem Bastion – has taken the lid off of Transistor, a sci-fi action RPG set to launch in early 2014. The announcement comes on Supergiant’s blog, where Creative Director Greg Kasavin confirmed the entire Bastion team is onboard for the new …
Read More »IGN India to launch in 2013
IGN, one of the world’s most popular games media outlets, is set to launch a localised website for India this year. The company is currently in the midst of rapid global expansion. It currently operates in 40 countries and is available in 12 languages. In Asia, IGN launched IGN Middle …
Read More »UK game industry returns to growth
Games employment up four per cent in 2012 after three years of decline
Read More »PES 2014 is ready and waiting for next-generation consoles
The problem is, it took us too long to admit we were going wrong.” That’s the admission of an unnamed member of Konami’s PES team in this month’s edition of Edge magazine, in which the publisher’s revamped and remotivated football studio has outlined the sweeping changes that will be introduced …
Read More »Twitch records strong growth, attracts 28m users in February
Justin.tv owned gaming video service Twitch has posted some very impressive numbers for February 2013. Last month the site hosted over 600,000 unique broadcasters that between them attracted 28m unique users. More impressively, each of these users watched an average of over 1.5 hours of video… every day. Twitch launched …
Read More »New consoles, new opportunity?
Tiga's Richard Wilson takes an optimistic look at the changing shape of the console landscape
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