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Former Nokia boss Stephen Elop is leaving Microsoft a little over a year after overseeing its purchase of the Finnish mobile firm. Former executive VP of operating systems Terry Myerson is to fill his shoes, overseeing a newly formed group called Windows and Devices. We are aligning our engineering efforts …
Read More »Microsoft has unannounced Kinect games in the works
Kinect may have been totally absent from Microsoft’s excellent E3 presentation, but the company says that software is still in development for the machine. Xbox’s general manager of global games publishing Shannon Loftis told Polygon that not only is the device still coming to Windows 10, but also that unannounced …
Read More »Fallout Shelter is making more than Candy Crush Saga
Bethesda’s Fallout smartphone experiment is off to an incredibly strong start. Venture Beat reports that the recently release Fallout Shelter has knocked Candy Crush Saga from third place in the top-grossing mobile games charts. King’s title has been more or less a constant presence in third place, earning around $2.55m …
Read More »New Nintendo 3DS XL back on top in Japan following slew of new releases
The New 3DS XL is once again No.1 in Japan as a number of new 3DS titles make their debut. According to market data from Famitsu, the two top spots are filled by titles for the 3DS. In pole position this week is Rhythm Heaven: The Best+, which shifted 155,784 …
Read More »Beyond Good & Evil 2 has been abandoned – rumour
The future of Beyond Good & Evil 2 looks even more uncertain today following fresh rumours of its demise. Speaking on a GameSpot video ahead Ubisoft’s E3 press conference, one journalist admitted that he had been informed that the game had been abandoned, although the inability to corroborate the claim …
Read More »Yoshida: PS3 asked too many compromises of The Last Guardian
The arrival of PS4 is one of the main reasons why development of The Last Guardian has taken so long to develop. Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida told Kotaku that the team working on the game was struggling to realise its vision on PS3. In fact, he even admitted …
Read More »Kerbal Space Program PS4 take-off confirmed
Spaceship-building simulator Kerbal Space Program is coming to PS4. That’s according to the title’s developers Squad, who took to Twitter to announce that the previously PC-only release would be coming to Sony’s hardware. At its PlayStation Latin America event, Sony said that the title would be launching in 2016. Kerbal …
Read More »Sony is helping develop Shenmue 3, says title was most-requested third-party game
The $2.9 million crowdfunding campaign for Shenmue 3 isn’t the only thing driving the project to reality. The long-awaited third entry in the epic Dreamcast franchise was a big surprise at Sony’s E3 press conference earlier this week, where the platform holder revealed the launch of a Kickstarter for the …
Read More »Platinum Games co-developing Star Fox Zero
Bayonetta 2 dev helping Shigeru Miyamoto with series' return
Read More »Iwata apologises to raging fans over poor E3 showcase
Nintendo has promised to do better” at E3 next year following the angry reaction from many fans to last night’s showing. Thank you for watching,” Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata said on Twitter, as translated by one user. We take opinions of this year’s Digital Event seriously and will …
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