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It’s been a huge commercial success, but from the off Star Wars Battlefront has been criticised for its lack of a meaningful single player mode. Now Eurogamer reports that EA Studios boss Patrick Soderlund has admitted in an investor broadcast that DICE opted against developing a single player campaign in …
Read More »A trilogy of Tetris films is on the way
It appears that not one, not two, but three Tetris movies are coming the cinemas in the near future. Deadline reports that the entry in this apparent series is going to cost $80m and is a co China-US production under Threshold Global Studios (Chinese media entrepreneur Bruno Wu and Mortal …
Read More »Katamari Damacy working on Google’s Project Tango AR game
Keita Takahashi, the developer behind cult PlayStation title Katamari Damacy, is working on an augmented reality title. Takahashi is working alongside the rest of his team at studio Funomena on a new game built around Google’s augmented reality technology Project Tango. It’s called Woorld (with two ‘o’s) and is said …
Read More »Coldwood Interactive extends publishing deal with EA for Unravel sequel
Cutesy platformer for PS4, Xbox One and PC announced at E3 2015 and released earlier this year
Read More »EA extends partnership with Unravel studio Coldwood
The next project from Unravel developer Coldwood Interactive is going to be launching courtesy of EA. EVP of EA Studios Patrick Sderlund made this announcement on the publishing giant’s website, though was unable to share any details about this next project from the indie studio. Though the firm has not …
Read More »Oculus invests $1m in VR for Good campaign
Oculus is hoping to change with world with the power of VR, having launched a new initiative designed to encourage social change through virtual reality experiences. The VR for Good campaign is currently tilted towards filmmakers, with two new programmes – the 360 Filmmakers Challenge for Students and the 360 …
Read More »Nearly 1m Xbox Live Gamertags will be cleared for sale tomorrow
Gamertags associated with long-forgotten Xbox Live accounts will be offered for sale tomorrow. One million of them, which have been sourced from original Xbox accounts that never migrated over to the Xbox 360, will on May 18th be available to those who have had an active Xbox Live subscription for …
Read More »League Of Legends MSI 2016 Finals: The Winners Are…
The final of League of Legends’ Mid Season Invitational saw Counter Logic Gaming represent North America (a milestone in Riot tournament progession for the region) against South Korea’s SK Telecom T1. But would LoL wunderkind Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-hyeok get to complete his trophy collection with an MSI win or would …
Read More »CS:GO’s ESL Pro League finals put France and Brazil on top
When I say G, you say TWO!” G!” TWO!” G!” TWO!” An English crowd cheering the French would be all but unheard of in most sports. Even here in CS:GO, where Europe holds a strong sense of solidarity, it still came as quite the surprise. Nevertheless, hearing the crowd erupting …
Read More »James Lampkin: ‘Because of the way we built WESA, it doesn’t allow for ESL to stomp around’
It was one of the better kept secrets in esports—an industry notorious for its leaks. Until May 10, no-one had publicly uttered the acronym WESA—quite a feat given the number of parties involved. Then, a well-meaning employee of a commercial printing firm took to Reddit to share the results of …
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