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A former Pixar and Bungie animator is heading up development on an interactive movie for PlayStation VR. The game itself is called Gary the Gull, and the technology powering it will be made available to other developers too. It tells a story like a movie, but it’s interactive like a …
Read More »Gone Home dev’s Tacoma pushed back to 2017
Developer Fullbright has confirmed that its next title will not be released this year, as was previously the plan. Tacoma was announced at the tail end of 2014 and was due out between Q3 and Q4 this year. However, things have been pushed back by about six months and the …
Read More »Fifty Shades of Grey producer is making a Metro 2033 film
The Metro series is to branch out into the wilderness of cinemas. Hollywood producer Michael De Luca, whose credits include the 50 Shades of Grey movie adaptation (as well as a string of other hits such as The Social Network and Captain Phillips), has teamed up with author Dmitry Glukhovsky …
Read More »Lohan given go-ahead in Take-Two lawsuit
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
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