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On the eve of hisreturnto full-time development, Warren Spector has issued a manifesto of sorts about the shape of triple-A game development. The Deus Ex, Epic Mickey and System Shock creator toldGamasutrathat coming up with more realistic character behaviours and allowing players to form their own narrative through emergent storytelling …
Read More »Yo-Kai Watch launching on 3DS this April
The Yo-Kai Watch video game has been confirmed to launch in Europe at the end of April. Nintendo has announced that the hit Japanese monster title is going to come to 3DS on April 29th. This comes shortly after Viz Media Europe revealed that the animated series based on the …
Read More »6.4 million people played The Division beta
Ubisoft has revealed that the beta for its new online shooter IP The Division was played by a record-breaking 6.4 million gamers. It is the biggest beta for a new IP on ‘current generation platforms’. That’s PlayStation 4 and Xbox One to you and me. In doing so it beats …
Read More »Day one digital Fallout 4 sales outpaced physical
Bethesda has offered another glimpse into the secretive world of digital console game sales. Speaking to Game Informer, Bethesda producer Todd Howard has revealed that RPG hit Fallout 4 sold more digitally on day one that it did physically. To put that into perspective, while the publisher never announced any …
Read More »Warren Spector: ‘Triple-A development is stagnant – thank god for indies’
Deus Ex creator highlights character AI and emergent storytelling as the trends that will push game creation forwards
Read More »Facebook forms team dedicated to ‘social VR’
Oculus owner says that it wants to bring the structure of networks such as Instagram and WhatsApp to virtual reality
Read More »Yo-Kai Watch TV series set for April debut in UK
An animated series based on Japanese super brand Yo-Kai Watch will debut in over 100 countries in Europe and Africa in the coming months. That’s according todistributorViz Media Europe, which has announced that the Yo-Kai Watch TV show will debut on April 23rd in the UK. In January, the company …
Read More »Microsoft vows that HoloLens will not suffer Kinect’s fate
A full version of HoloLens will launch ‘when the world is ready’, to avoid the fate suffered by Kinect, Microsoft has said. If a consumer bought it today, they would have 12 things to do with it,” creator Alex Kipmanexplained (viaRecode). And they would say: ‘Cool, I bought a $3,000 …
Read More »Smite is coming to PlayStation 4
One of the biggest titles in the battle arena genre is coming to another platform. Smitebecame the largest MOBA to hit the console platform last year when developerHiRez Studiostook the title to theXbox One. Now the game is coming to another platform—the PlayStation. TodaySmiteentered Closed Alpha on the PS4. Read …
Read More »MCV Awards 2016 Finalist Profiles: Games Publisher
As we countdown to the MCV Awards 2016, which takes place in London on March 3rd, we profile each of the finalists for the Best Publisher category 2K Games 2K had its best year since 2008 in terms of revenue – both its WWE and NBA franchises have grown by …
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