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Sony Online Entertainment is no more – the company has new owners and a new name. Columbus Nova has acquired the H1Z1, DC Universe Online and Planetside 2 developer from Sony. It will now go under the name Daybreak Game Company and has already stated that it intends to go …
Read More »Modified PS4 and Xbox One will offer 4K later this year, Netflix says
New versions of both the PS4 and Xbox One will released later this year, Netflix has said. Chief product officer Neil Hunt told a press conference, as reported by The Huffington Post, that Sony has promised” a PS4 hardware revision that will increase its maximum video output to 4K. When …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Sarah Seaby
Sarah Seaby’s brother had a small part to play in her career in video games. I spent a number of years trying to beat my brother at long jump, 100m and javelinon Daley Thompson’s Decathlon on the Commodore 64,” recalls Bethesda’s marketing boss. We would also take turns typing game …
Read More »GAME rolls out Marketplace and online Gift Card redemptions
Having been offline for much of the weekend, GAME’s website has returned with some additional functionality. Chief amongst them is GAME Marketplace. Revealed last year, the program allows others to sell their games through the website. As can be seen in the picture below, when viewing an item consumers will …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Rosemary Buahin
PlayStation UK’s head of trade marketingRosemary Buahin talks to MCV about her career in games. Tell us about your career in games? Video games was my first proper job out of university, and I fell into the industry by accident. I was temping for a High Street recruitment consultant and …
Read More »Octodad makes nearly $5m as sales approach 500k units
Octodad: Deadliest Catch has made nearly $5m in revenue after shifting 459,753 copies since its release a year ago. Developer Young Horses has revealed that its core team of nine spent 28,208 hours working on the game. The highest individual hours from a team member clocked in at 5,055. Overall …
Read More »Kojima Productions shoots down Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance 2 rumours
There was much excitement – unnecessarily, it now seems – about a possible announcement for Metal Gear Solid: Revengeance 2 over the weekend. A logo of the number ‘2′ was shown on screen as part of a PS4 trailer aired at Sony’s booth at the Taipei Game Show, Gematsu reports. …
Read More »Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered arrives on PC, mobile platforms
A remastered edition of Quantic Dream’s 2005 interactive narrative game Indigo Prophecy has launched on PC and mobile platforms. As we found out last week when its PC retail listing turned up, the new version’s title mashes the international moniker Fahrenheit together with the North American name Indigo Prophecy. The …
Read More »Sons of Anarchy game out now on iOS
An episodic video game adaptation of the recently-concluded FX drama Sons of Anarchy is now available on Apple’s App Store. The first episode – dubbed Sons of Anarchy: The Prospect – arrives just a couple months after development of the game was announced by developer Orpheus Interactive. Sons of Anarchy: …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Amanda Farr
15 years ago, another woman on this Brit List – Lis Naylor – put Amanda Farr forward for a role at GT Interactive. The company was looking for a marketing manager for their back catalogue of products. Suffice to say, Farr got the job and she has since gone on …
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