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Activision has confirmed that it will restructure Guitar Hero developer FreeStyleGames, but is looking to rehouse staff where it can. The team, which has also worked on DJ Hero and Call of Duty Online, recently completed work on the new Guitar Hero Live project. Activision didn’t give any details about …
Read More »Valve announces August date for Dota 2 International
Valve has announced that the main event of The International 6 will take place August 8th – August 13that the Key Arena in Seattle, with tickets going on sale April 7th. Tickets for the six day event, which will see the best Dota 2 teams in the world compete for …
Read More »Giant Monopoly kicks off London Games Festival this weekend
A giant Monopoly board full of video game references will appear on Trafalgar Square this weekend. The activity is part of London Games Festival, which kicks off today (Friday, April 1st) and runs until April 10th. The Monopoly board is 15 metres squared and has been customised to tell the …
Read More »There’s a better solution to piracy than ‘crippling’ DRM, argues TinyBuild CEO
'We are going to look at regional pricing and more aggressive deals in lower wealth regions,' says Alex Nichiporchik after Punch Club struck by 1.6m illegal downloads
Read More »Guide to the London Games Festival
The London Games Festival kicks off today and runs until April 10th. There are 32 events set to take place across nine days, with over 500 games to be shown. There are two sets of events – official ones such as BAFTA and Rezzed, and ‘fringe’ events, which includes the …
Read More »Remedy’s Quantum leap: Sam Lake talks about the studio’s most ambitious game yet
At this point in time, you may know Quantum Break as a game with enormous scope involving time travel, branching narratives, time travel and its own TV show. But it was not always this way. In fact, the game was the result of Remedy – fresh off the release of …
Read More »PlayStation Access hits one million subscribers
Sony has announced that YouTube channel PlayStation Access has reached one million subscribers. The platform holder has said that that outlet has grown top be the biggest PlayStation channel in the European, Middle East and Africa regions. PlayStation Access launched in 2010, and Sony says that the site is home …
Read More »Dark Souls: The Movie, Yooka-Laylee on Sega Saturn and The Witcher’s talking horse: Devs do April Fools
We round up the (questionably) funny efforts of the development industry for 2016's April Fools' Day
Read More »KISS wants to sign indie games at Interface 2016
KISS has signed up as a meeting host for the third iteration of Interface, a joint venture between MCV and Develop. The publisher will be taking part in a series of prearranged one-to-one meetings, where developers can pitch their games face-to-face in the hopes of securing that all-important publishing deal, …
Read More »GAME’s CEO on surviving the turbulent games industry
Just before Christmas GAME warned its shareholders that sales had been lower than expected. The news of a disappointing festive period can be a critical blow to any retailer, but especially to one in a market like video games, which is so heavily dependant on Q4. The profit warning was …
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