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Some of the world’s top eSports teams are actively recruiting for teams to compete in Blizzard’s upcoming competitive shooter Overwatch. The Daily Dot reports that Tempo Storm made an offer to the world’s most successful Team Fortress 2 group Froyotech, about the formation of an Overwatch team. A two-year deal …
Read More »No Season Pass for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 on PS3 and 360
The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 will not receive all of the post-release DLC pencilled in for the PS4 and Xbox One versions. Players on older machines will not be able to buy a Season Pass to access the content, either. "Season Pass …
Read More »SXSW cancels Gamergate and anti-harassment panels after violent threats
Upcoming event SXSW has come in for criticism after cancelling not only a Gamergate-backed panel but also a panel designed to explore the topic of harassment. The March gathering was due to host two sessions – ‘SavePoint: A Discussion on the Gaming Community’ and ‘Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Games’. …
Read More »Driveclub Bikes name-dropped by PEGI
It seems one of Sony’s Paris Games Week announcements has been revealed ahead of time. Gematsu spotted a now-removed listing for a title called Driveclub Bikes on the PEGI website, meaning the game had been submitted for certification in Europe. The title appeared as a serperate listing from the core …
Read More »‘Halo 5 is the biggest Xbox launch to date’
You know a company plans to go big with a game when it starts the marketing for it almost a year in advance. That’s precisely what Xbox has done with Halo 5: Guardians, the latest in the 65 million unit-selling sci-fi super franchise. We have considerable expectations for Halo 5: …
Read More »Channel 4: ‘We want to be like Devolver Digital’
Channel 4 isn’t a stranger to producing games, but now the TV network has opened up a dedicated publishing arm to this end – All 4 Games. MCV talks to studio boss Colin MacDonald to find out more Why start All 4 Games? It came from a few different places. …
Read More »Margin Makers: Guide to Halo 5 merchandise
Microsoft icon Master Chief is back in action in the first full-bodied Halo game on Xbox One. MCV checks in with the Chief’s best merchandise How do you follow one of the biggest games of all time? That’s the question that Halo 5: Guardians aims to answer. The first full …
Read More »Galak-Z PC release lands on Steam this week
The PC release of Galak-Z: The Dimensional will arrive on Steam later this week, developer 17-Bit has announced. Valve’s distribution service – and likely other yet to be named digital shops – will carry Windows, Mac and Linux editions of the award-winning space shooter starting on Octoober 29th. The open-world …
Read More »Everquest designer forms indie studio Stonethunder Games
Everquest franchise designer Ryan Barker has moved on from the game he spent the past fifteen years working on to found his own studio, Stonethunder Games. Games Industryreports Barker formed the studio earlier this year, likely spurred by Sony’s sale of Everquest developer Sony Online Entertainment – which has since …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers: October 18-24
Valve has released Steam’s latest weekly top ten sellers chart, with pre-orders for Fallout 4 outpacing the rest for the second straight week. Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide jumped onto the chart and all the way up to the runner-up spot for its top ten debut. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and …
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