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2K and Gearbox Software have announced Battleborn, a first-person shooter MOBA for Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Battleborn is being developed by the teams behind Borderlands 2 and is said to fetaure a similar combination of highly-stylised visuals, co-operative gameplay and first-person shooting. Players will be able to play a …
Read More »‘We’re never going to stop listening’: Chris Charla on ID@Xbox
Microsoft open to indie section on Xbox One marketplace
Read More »VIDEOS: Impressive Driveclub shorts show off weather effects
Well, if these videos are representative of the final game then Driveclub is possibly the best looking racing game ever made. Two new videos released on the PlayStation Blog show off the upcoming racer’s dynamic weather system, that is fully customisable and will be offered as a free game update …
Read More »Creative England invests £250,000 in Accelerator fund
SCEE working with organisation to support five games firms' projects for PlayStation platforms
Read More »UPDATE: The Sun ‘investigation’ claims gaming is ‘as addictive as heroin’
As if video games aren’t already bad enough, it has now been revealed that they are as addictive as another really bad thing. So says The Sun, anyhow, which has a spread in today’s paper (via @scully1888) with the headline: ‘Gaming as addictive as heroin’ carrying a ‘The Sun Investigation’ …
Read More »Lanning: Publisher-developer relationships are very unfair
Diminishing returns for developments and unfair demands from publishers are the reason why Oddworld Inhabitants founder Lorne Lanning closed his studio in 2005. We’d had enough of the terms. We’d had enough of what was happening,” Lanning told Metro. And what was happening was quite simply if you wanted to …
Read More »Retail listings for Beyond: Two Souls crop up online
2013 PS3 title Beyond: Two Souls could be the next game in line for a next-gen re-release. CVG reports that two Swiss retailers – World of Games and Alcom – both posted listings for a PS4 version of the game yesterday. They’re both still live, too. Quantic Dream’s Beyond: Two …
Read More »PS4 Driveclub console bundle confirmed
Sony will be bundling its upcoming racer DriveClub with PS4 hardware. A new Driveclub bundle including a console, controller and copy of the game has been given a European RRP of €439.99 – which should translate to between 375-380 in the UK It’s expected that the bundle will hit around …
Read More »EA reacts to anger at The Sims 4 omissions
A petition urging EA to reinstate toddlers and swimming pools into The Sims 4 has passed 16,000 signatures. Toddlers have been a vital aspect to The Sims series because it is a lifestate that is crucial to the flow of the game,” it reads. Without it, newborns will age straight …
Read More »GameStop wants in on development to improve pre-order exclusives
Retailer GameStop wans to increase the amount of exclusive content it can offer customers who use it to pre-order games. VentureBeat reports that to do this it has embarked on a strategy of buddying up with publishers and developers – ideally early on in the development process. GamesStop indicated that …
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