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Her Story creator Sam Barlow and The Chinese Room take home three gongs each
Read More »Indie skating series OlliOlli grinding into physical retail
Indie skating games OlliOlli and OlliOlli 2 will be available to physical retail this summer. Developer Roll7 has teamed up with publisher Badland Games UK to release the two skating titles physically for PlayStation 4. OlliOlli launched digitally in January 2014, and to date has been downloaded 750,000 times. Its …
Read More »Stardew Valley developer in talks over console port
The creator of Stardew Valley says he is talking to other developers about releasing his hit farming simulation title on consoles. The smash hit PC game has been downloaded 830,000 times on Steam since its February 26th release. I’m currently in discussion with several companies that are interested in helping …
Read More »‘UK games development is as strong as ever, despite closures’
The UK games development sector is stronger than ever, despite the collapse of three major studios, say leading experts. Over the past month, Xbox has announced it will close Fable makers Lionhead (pictured), Sony will shut DriveClub creators Evolution, while Activision has announced redundancies at Guitar Hero developers FreeStyleGames. I …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: UKIE appoints new research analyst
Luke Hebblethwaite replaces Renevey, GMG hires new EVP of marketing and Nintendo boosts PR and marketing team. UKIE appoints Luke Hebblethwaite asresearch analyst Luke Hebblethwaite(pictured, right)has joined UK games trade body UKIE as a research analyst. He replaces Rgis Renevey, who left the company earlier this year. Hebblethwaite joins from …
Read More »Her Story, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and Rocket League win big at BAFTA Game Awards
Indie projects, British titles and… British indie releases were the stars at this year’s BAFTA Game Awards. Sam Barlow’s Her Story, The Chinese Room’s Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture (pictured) and Rocket League all walked away with three prizes from last night’s awards show. UK indie dev Sam Barlow won …
Read More »Telltale expands publishing business with console version of 7 Days to Die
7 Days to Die is coming to PS4 and Xbox One courtesy of established developer and fledgling publisher Telltale. The Fun Pimps’ open-world zombie title is currently available in Steam Early Access, but the Telltale partnership will bring it to consoles – both digitally and physically – for the first …
Read More »What’s going wrong with UK games development? Find out in this week’s MCV
Following the issues facing UK studios Lionhead, Evolution and FreeStyle, we ask development leaders about the future of development in this country. We also speak to Square Enix’s Justin Gaffney about the return of Final Fantasy, after the firm announced three games, a movie, and much more. Meanwhile, Stardew Valley …
Read More »HTC acknowledges ‘multiple issues’ with Vive deliveries
Tech company HTC has for the first acknowledged the issues that have been plaguing HTC Vive customers. Complaints about the ordering process and delayed deliveries have been doing the rounds for days, with reports that all non-Paypal orders were facing problems. HTC has denied credit card issues, however, and insisted …
Read More »Square Enix to help Kickstart Fear Effect sequel
PSOne IP Fear Effect is staged for a comeback, providing it is successfully crowdfunded. Eurogamer reports that unlike the original title, the Fear Effect Sedna will be a low-budget indie affair courtesy of French developer Sushee, which got signed for the project off the back of Square Enix’s The Collective …
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