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Electronic Arts and Comcast have announced a partnership to offer subscribers of the cable company access to game streaming via their set-top box. Polygon reports on the deal, officially dubbed ‘X1 Games Powered by EA.’ The lineup is currently limited to around 20 games, including EA IPs NBA Jam and …
Read More »Smash Bros. EVO broadcaster refuses to show player’s YouPorn sponsor tag
Twitch broadcasters VideoGameBootCamp have refused to allow a Smash Bros. player to use the in-game tag of their sponsors, YouPorn. Melee player Jason "Bizz" Yoon, who was signed by the "Team YP" eSports branch of the popular adult video streaming site last month, declared the situation last night over Twitter. …
Read More »‘Don’t put all your money into your first project’
Matthew Wiggins discusses how to effectively spend your money
Read More »How to make a $10bn mobile game
It is inevitable that there will be a smartphone game that will generate $10bn in the West. That’s the prediction of N3twork’s Neil Young, the former EA exec who set up Ngmoco and sold it to Japanese mobile giant DeNA for $400m. Young is a video games development veteran and …
Read More »VIDEO: N++ gets an actual release date
Having been announced in 2013, developer Metanet has finally confirmed a release date for N++. The platformer was announced at Gamescom in 2013 and is a sequel to 2008 Xbox 360, DS and PSP game N+. It will be released for PS4 on July 28th. I have been waiting for …
Read More »First Amazon Prime Day video game deals appear
Ahead of Amazon’s members-only Prime Day sale tomorrow, the promotion’s first video game offers have started to appear. For those not in the know, Prime Day is much like Amazon’s highly popular Black Friday sales – except you have to be subscribed to the retail giant’s 79/year service (which counts …
Read More »Hi-Rez announces Smite Xbox One invitational alongside SWC 2016
The Smite World Championships 2016 will comprise of both a PC and Xbox One tournament when it returns to Atlanta’s Cobb Performing Arts Centre on January 7-10 . Hi-Rez Studios revealed the championships, now renamedSmite World Championship Presented By Xbox One, will test players of the original PC title and …
Read More »Boys are tired of gaming’s over-sexualised women, too
A new study has found that the majority of teenage boys in the US believe that games unfairly treat women as sex objects. A Time study by Rosalind Wiseman asked US school boys whether they believed female characters are treated too often as sex objects” in video games. 47 per …
Read More »Reddit chief engineer Bethanye Blount quits
Does Reddit have a gender discrimination problem that it needs to address?” That’s the question being posed to Reddit after news that chief engineer Bethanye Blount has quit the company after just two months in the job and just days after CEO Ellen Pao also departed. Pao had endured months …
Read More »Latest Metal Gear Solid V box art ditches Kojima’s name
Both the name of Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima and the logo of his studio Kojima Productions have been dropped from the latest box art for Metal Gear Solid V. These pack shots were uploaded yesterday, with eagle-eyed NeoGAF users spotting that the above details had been dropped Given recent …
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