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Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has made an unexpected foray into the video games industry. The politician has released a mobile version of Churchill Solitaire, Sir Winston Churchill’s extra difficult version of solitaire. According to an FAQ on the title’s website, the game was taught to Rumsfeld by …
Read More »NCSoft’s Blade and Soul player count surpasses 1m
Less than a week after it launched, new MMO Blade and Soul has shot past one million active players. NCSoft’s title launched on Tuesday January 19th 2016 in Europe and America following its debut in China and South Korea in 2012. The publisher announced that Blade and Soul was set …
Read More »VIDEO: Platinum’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game revealed
The rumours were true – the next title from Platinum Games is based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Some think of the heroes in a half shelf as a ‘90s phenomena, but in truth they’ve never really gone away. Recent successes have included the actually really, really good animated …
Read More »Unravel developer says EA is ‘the friendly giant’
EA may have a poor reputation amongst some gamers. But according to the creator of Unravel, the publisher is not the villain that some people seem to think. Coldwood Interactive’s Martin Sahlin told The Observer newspaper that he had expected to be ‘bullied’ by EA when the firm tried to …
Read More »Sony creates PlayStation-focused Sony Interactive Entertainment division
Sony has announced it is merging its Computer Entertainment and Network Entertainment operations together to form Sony Interactive Entertainment. According to an announcement made on Sony’s corporate portal, the change is effective as of April 1st 2016, with the new consolidated operation being headquartered in San Mateo, California. Sony Computer …
Read More »Five Nights at Freddy’s World pulled from Steam
After what can at best be described as a troubled launch, developer Scott Cawthon has removed Five Nights at Freddy’s World from Steam. The game launched with a number of bugs and missing features, with Cawthon admitting that: There are a lot of features that this game should have had …
Read More »No DLC for Rare Replay
No more games will be added to the Rare Replay collection, the studio has said. UK developer Rare hinted that more games could be added to its package of 30 titles, when engineer James Thomas said on a live Twitch stream that ‘there could be space for more’. But lead …
Read More »Pokemon is getting its first ever Super Bowl ad
Viewers of this year’s Super Bowl will for the first time be greeted with a Pokemon ad. The ad was shot in Rio de Janeiro and celebrates the millions of Pokmon fans around the world”. The short lasts 30 seconds, with an extended version then available online. It will be …
Read More »Her Story 2 teased by creator Sam Barlow
One of 2015’s most surprisingly, and wonderful hits, is getting a sequel, or at least a spiritual successor. Developer Sam Barlow has tweeted a teaser script page for Her Story 2. Barlow also confirmed that the title will have no narrative ties to the first game, offering a standalone mystery …
Read More »FaZe Clan joins CS:GO with G2 team acquisition
Following in the footsteps of fellow Call of Duty rival brand OpTic Gaming, FaZe Clan has joined the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive circuit by acquiring team G2 Esports. The European squad, captained by Mikail "Maikelele" Bill, had been in talks with FaZe for some weeks before the news was revealed yesterday. …
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