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Future as a publishing empire is crumbling. And after posting a loss of more than 30m for the first half of the year, it is taking drastic action to rescue its business. It is selling its bike, sports and craft titles for 24m, it plans to cut 170 employees from …
Read More »Zelnick: Life after Grand Theft Auto
There were queues snaking around the corner at even the most remote games retailer. It featured in every national newspaper, on every radio station and across every news channel. And in just over six months, 33m units were sold into retail, making GTA V the fastest selling title in games …
Read More »Missing visual options re-enabled on PC version of Watch Dogs
The PC community claims to have found a method to re-introduce a number of graphics options that were allegedly deliberately deactivated in the PC version of Watch Dogs. The game has since before launch been plagued by accusations that the final product falls well short of the visual standards offered …
Read More »Gamers more likely to friend trash-talking males and polite females
Men who play aggressively online are more likely to have their friend requests accepted than those who are polite and passive, a new report has found. Alarmingly, however, the opposite is true for women who are more likely to have their friend requests accepted if they are friendly and positive. …
Read More »RailSimulator co-dev Oovee sees Steam sales success with Spintires
A hardcore driving simulation called Spintires is currently the second best selling game on Steam. The UK-made game was the subject of a successful Kickstarter that was funded in July 2013 having beaten its 40k funding goal, raising over 60k. It currently sits behind only the on-sale Just Cause 2 …
Read More »Kinect voice commands will always remain available on Xbox One
Xbox One’s voice commands will continue to be available even in games where developers have chosen to use the recently freed Kinect GPU power for other tasks. Microsoft recently granted developers the power to use bandwidth normally reserved for the no-longer-mandatory camera for other tasks. However, that doesn’t mean an …
Read More »Battlefield ‘isn’t necessarily’ an annual franchise, EA says
Visceral’s entry into the world of Battlefield doesn’t automatically mean that gamers can expect a new Battlefield title every year. The Dead Space developer was named as the studio behind this year’s Battlefield: Hardline. The presumption being that the series had been put into a two-year development cycle with DICE …
Read More »50% of Xbox One owners have played Forza 5
Microsoft’s Xbox One launch title Forza 5 has won itself a very impressive attach rate. I was humbled and flabbergasted when I learned that one out of every two Xbox One player profiles had played the full version of Forza Motorsport 5,” Turn 10 creative director Dan Greenawalt told IGN. …
Read More »David Braben awarded an OBE
David Braben has been appointed OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. TheBBCreports that the honour was given for his services to the UK’s game and computer industries. Braben, who runs UK developer Frontier, co-created space sim Elite with Ian Bell in 1984, which went on to win huge critical …
Read More »Game of Thrones series 4 finale sets new online piracy record
Last night’s series four finale of Game of Thrones has set a new record for illegal downloads. The tenth episode of the highly popular TV series was downloaded by over 1.5 million file sharers in the 12 hours following its transmission on American screens on Sunday night, according toTorrent Freak. …
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