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Brad Fuller, who helped create the soundtracks to a number of classic 1980s video games, has died. Working as a composer for video games since 1978, Fuller joined Atari in 1982, where he created the scores to titles including Tetris, Donkey Kong, Marble Madness and Gauntlet II. He also worked …
Read More »Triad Wars to be killed without exiting closed beta
The PC-only spiritual successor to Sleeping Dogs is being culled without ever being fully released. Free-to-play shooter Triad Wars, which was announced in late 2014, launched in closed beta in early 2015. Developer United Front, however, has announced that it is to close completely on January 20th. Since the start …
Read More »Steam games made over $3.5bn in 2015 – report
Games sold over Steam generated over $3.5bn last year, according to analytics site Steam Spy. The outlet – run by one Sergey Galyonkin – claims that 3,000 new games were released on the platform (up from 1,900 in 2014), and the number of concurrent users reached a whopping 12 million …
Read More »PayPal backers won’t get Shenmue 3’s Kickstarter rewards
Developer Ys Net has, thanks to what appears to be a bizarre data interpretation, decided that its PayPal backers will not be given the same treatment as its Kickstarter backers. The studio decided to poll fans over whether people who backed the game on PayPal after the end of its …
Read More »Development cycle shift rumoured for Assassin’s Creed
Series could become bi-annual as next entry reportedly delayed until 2017
Read More »Sony promises PlayStation Plus subscription extensions following PSN outage
Following its PlayStation Network online service being down yesterday, Sony has said it will be compensating gamers. In a tweet on its official Twitter account (below), the platform holder said that we should ‘stay tuned for details on PS Plus, PS Now, and video rental extensions’. This can be taken …
Read More »Windows 10 surpasses 200m installs
Microsoft’s latest OS is “on fastest growth trajectory of any version of Windows”
Read More »UK games retail suffers disappointing 2015, as software sales tumble 6%
More than 28m physical games were sold in the UK last year, a drop of six per cent over 2014. That’s according to the latest figures from GfK Chart-Track. These numbers are actually all the more disappointing, because Chart-Track’s weekly data actually counted 53 weeks of 2015, whereas 2014 had …
Read More »Next Assassin’s Creed set in ancient Egypt, won’t arrive this year
2016 may be the first time in six years that Ubisoft does not release an Assassin’s Creed title. Kotaku, which has a fantastic track-record of breaking Assassin’s Creed news super early, says both it and others have been informed by a number of sources that there will be no AC …
Read More »Rise of the Tomb Raider hits 1m units, could launch on PC this month
Crystal Dynamics’ Rise of the Tomb Raider has shifted ‘well over one million units’ since it was released in November. That’s according to Xbox’s marketing man Aaron Greenburg, who confirmed that the adventure title had reached the sales milestone responding to a fan on Twitter (below). This follows Microsoft revealing …
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