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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 …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: January 25-31
Grand Theft Auto V took the top spot for the second straight week, and Dying Light earned two top ten finishes on this week’s Steam best sellers chart. Techland’s survival horror game finished in the runner-up spot, while its aforementioned ultimate edition grabbing seventh place. Sony’s H1Z1 continues to hang …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Shelly Pearce
Shelly Pearce has been one of the faces of Nintendo for over 16 years. She began as UK PR manager for THE Games – Nintendo’s UK distributor – in 1998, just after the launch of Goldeneye, and went on to handle the arrival of Pokmon in Britain. From there she …
Read More »Club Nintendo America bumps up catalogue in run-up to closure
As the end draws near for Club Nintendo, the American branch of the reward program has added a host of new options to its catalogue. Nintendo Life reports that new physical rewards include a Fierce Deity Link Jigsaw Puzzle and a Majora’s Mask 3D ‘messenger bag’. There are also over …
Read More »$35 Raspberry Pi 2 revealed, is 6x faster than predecessor
A new and faster Raspberry Pi 2 model has been made available for sale at the same price as the previous B+ version. The $35 micro-computer features a 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU, which the organisation claims makes it six times more powerful than other models. As a result of …
Read More »Octodad makes nearly $5m in revenue
Creators clock in 28,208 hours on game's development
Read More »Character gender is ‘irrelevant’, Dontnod says
French developer Dontnod Entertainment has said that the gender of your main character is "quite irrelevant" when it comes to the quality and success of a game or its storyline. The comments emerged during aReddit Ask Me Anything, in which a user asked whether he should play Life Is Strange …
Read More »Devolver says Yes! to YouTubers
Hotline Miami publisher allowing channel owners to keep all ad revenues for their videos
Read More »Are developers undervaluing themselves with launch discounts?
Devs discuss slashing the price of their game on release, and why it may be a tactic worth considering
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