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Civilization: Beyond Earth is on top of Steam’s weekly best sellers chart for the second week in a row, beating out the latest offering in the popular Farming Simulator series. Still, a runner-up finish is pretty strong for any title making its list debut – it’ll be interesting to see …
Read More »Brianna Wu offering $11k reward for information leading to GamerGate arrests
One of the women victimised by the GamerGate hate campaign has said her family will offer a reward for anyone who helps identify individuals who have sent her death threats. The Wu family is offering a reward of $11,000 for identifiable information leading to the prosecution of people sending me …
Read More »Andy ‘Gollum’ Serkis stars in Mike Bithell’s Volume
Developer Mike Bithell has confirmed that Lord of the Rings star Andy Serkis will feature in his next release Volume. He’ll play villainous CEO” Guy Gisborne who runs the England depicted in what is described as a stealth-based retelling of the Robin Hood fable. Set in the future. Bithell’s breakthrough …
Read More »VIDEO: Star Citizen FPS gameplay shown off
Cloud Imperium Games has for the first time shown off the first person shooter element of its in-development space epic Star Citizen. The video shows off four players securing a space station manned by hostiles. It all looks little ropey, but boss Chris Roberts promises that the CryEngine 3 based …
Read More »Feeling festive? Prove it at next month’s games industry Christmas quiz
November has started, the Christmas toys are on shelves, and so now is the time to get excited for the MCV and Develop Games Industry Christmas Quiz 2014. The whole UK games industry is invited to come, of course, to the December 2nd event. This is our biggest quiz event …
Read More »The most successful Doctor Who game you’ve probably never heard of
Every Saturday evening for the last ten weeks has seen The Doctor and Clara fight all sort of nasties. There’s been the half-faced man, the Daleks, the Robots of Sherwood, evil wall-painting things, a mummy, spiders on the moon, trees… And then, within 24 hours, gamers are given the chance …
Read More »Microsoft says it might have to move autumn 2015 titles due to abundance of content
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has said that Microsoft might have to reassess its Xbox One release schedule for next year as it has more content than it knows what to do with. "Looking at production schedules and how things are lining up, next fall is just crazy,” Spencer said on …
Read More »Hearthstone bot creator forced out of business
Blizzard’s recent decision to block accounts deemed to have been using Hearthstone bots has forced one company to close its doors. Those visiting the Crawlerbots website, who make Hearthstone bot Hearthcrawler and World of Warcraft bot Warcrawler, are now greeted with the following message: This is our last official announcement. …
Read More »UK games market slumps again
PS4 and Xbox One consoles are flying off shelves, but the games are not following them. UK boxed games sales this week reached just 13.6m, a figure more suited to July, not the middle of October (GfK Chart-Track figures). For the month of October, UK boxed game sales hit 78m, …
Read More »Super Smash Bros 3DS players hit with 136-year online ban
71,582,030 minutes – that’s the length of an online ban being sent out to some players of Super Smash Bros on 3DS. A handful of Reddit users have received the – presumably erroneous – ban as punishment for what the platform holder has deemed to be overtly aggressive targeting of …
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