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Ex-Diablo and Torchlight developers Travis Baldree and Erich Schaefer have announced open-world space survival game Rebel Galaxy for PlayStation 4 and Windows PC. A post on the US PlayStation Blog reveals the upcoming title from Double Damage Games – a new studio co-founded by Baldree and Schaefer, the pair that …
Read More »Rockstar warns of Grand Theft Auto V re-release beta scams
Rockstar is warning Grand Theft Auto fans to watch out for scams claiming to offer beta access to the upcoming re-release of GTA V. The warning comes from a newly added page on Rockstar’s official site. The studio clarifies that the upcoming re-release of the title on PC, PS4 and …
Read More »Ubisoft Toronto founder Jade Raymond leaves company
Jade Raymond, founder of Ubisoft Toronto and producer of its Assassin’s Creed, Watch Dogs and Splinter Cell games, among others, has left the company. During her time at Ubisoft, Raymond was producer on the first Assassin’s Creed from 2004 to 2007, going on to serve as executive producer on the …
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Toronto studio MD quits after ten years with publisher
Read More »Early Access game Space Engineers sells 1m copies
Keen Software House’s Steam Early Access title Space Engineers has now sold over 1m copies since its release in October 2013. The game hit 500k sales in May. We feel twice as happy with this achievement since it came on our first year anniversary since Space Engineers was launched to …
Read More »Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty facing Wii U ‘dev’ challenge
Oddworld Inhabitants has admitted that it is having trouble with the planned Wii U version of Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty. GameSpot reports that creator Lorne Lanning wants to ensure that the Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee remake must run on all versions of Nintendo’s hardware before he is prepared to release it. …
Read More »Game over for the Official Magazine?
The news last week that Future and Nintendo had decided to close Official Nintendo Magazine is a sad sign of the times. UK Nintendo magazines have come and gone over the years. The biggest casualty before now had been in 2012 when Nintendo Gamer – the successor to a long …
Read More »343 dev says 20GB Master Chief Collection update is to avoid second disc
Halo: The Master Chief Collection creators 343 Industries have explained the reasoning behind its planned 20GB day one patch for the game. Eurogamer spotted that Halo franchise development director Frank O’Connor told Neogaf that it’s purely to avoid the need to ship the game on two discs and require users …
Read More »BBC Doctor Who game designed to teach kids computer programming
A new free-to-play online Doctor Who game from the BBC hopes to bring the art of basic computer programming to kids. The Doctor and the Dalek will be available on the CBBC website from Wednesday (October 22nd) and is voiced by the 12th Doctor himself Peter Capaldi. The story has …
Read More »I Am Bread is a game in which you play as a slice of bread
The next title from Surgeon Simulator developer Bossa Studios is called I Am Bread. As the name suggests, it sees players assuming the role of a slice of bread. The physics-based control scheme allows for independent control of each corner allowing the bread to scale walls, manipulate objects and no …
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