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Lindsay Lohan has won her fight to have Take-Two’s attempted dismissal of her lawsuit rejected. Lohan is alleging that Rockstar intentionally used her likeness in Grand Theft Auto V. Now the New York Supreme Court has ruled that it cannot rely on Take-Two’s current denials and that Lohan’s case has …
Read More »Life is good: Dontnod on the success of Life is Strange and what comes next
2015 featured a number of rather different games that went on to enjoy both critical and commercial success. Solo developer Sam Barlow launched search engine-driven narrative Her Story, while Psyonix released car football title Rocket League. Meanwhile, French studio Dontnod – which made 2013’s Remember Me – teamed up with …
Read More »The Division co-developer heads to Guildford to meet Lionhead staff
Ubisoft is the latest publisher to head to Guildford to offer work to Lionhead staff. Reflections, which most recently worked on The Division, will visit the White House Pub on Thursday, March 17th from 3pm. Xbox-owned Lionhead faces closure following the cancellation of Fable Legends. Reflections staff says they will …
Read More »Splash Damage is working on Gears of War 4’s multiplayer
London developer Splash Damage is once again back in the Gears of War fold, developer The Coalition has confirmed. Splash Damage had a hand in the recent Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, having previously worked on the likes of Return to Castle Wolfenstein and its own online shooter Brink. Now …
Read More »AMD shows off wireless all-in-one VR headset
Newcomer to increasingly popular sector puts the processing power inside the headset, doing away with two of VR’s main gripes
Read More »Game downloads added to ONS inflation index
The revenue generated by game downloads has officially become one of the measures by which the Office of National Statistics measures UK inflation. The ONS has a ‘shopping basket’ of goods that it tracks, with price changes used to gauge how inflation is shifting in the UK. City AM reports …
Read More »‘Mobile spenders play at least four hours a day’
While players who won’t part with a penny average around 45 minutes daily, adds former Playdom creative director Eric Todd
Read More »AMD’s Sulon Q offers wire, PC and console free all-in-one VR
There’s a new virtual reality headset on the block that looks to address two of the key problems with most VR headsets. The AMD Sulon Q is an all-in-one solution that is not only wire-free, but also does not require users to plus it into a PC or console. There’s …
Read More »AMD’s Radeon Pro Duo offers unrivalled VR graphics power
The battle to be the world’s most powerful graphics card is always shifting, and today a new beast sits on the throne. It’s called the Radeon Pro Duo, the unit houses two Fiji GPUs, amounting to 16 teraflops of computer performance and 8GB of on board RAM. Also included is …
Read More »ILM unveils Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine VR experiment
Let’s face it – if anything is going to sell virtual reality, it’s the chance to prance about with a lightsabre. Industrial Light & Magic and LucasArts have apparently inadvertently unveiled an experimental VR title called Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine. A trailer briefly appeared on the ILM website before …
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