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Former members of now defunct PR agency Lunch have formed a new company – Lick PR. The firm is made up of team director Lucy Starvis, account manager Ian Dickson, account executive Colette Barr and MD Kat Osman. Based in Central London, the game, technology and event PR agency was …
Read More »WTF is… TotalBiscuit?
There are many ways to measure the influence of John Bain, but recently MCV stumbled across a new one by accident. He was one of the hundred entrants in our Brit List. Bain tweeted out a link to the magazine, which instantly more than doubled our typical readership. And this …
Read More »Xbox One’s Amazing Spider-Man 2 swinging to retail this month
Activision has said that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will be released physically on Xbox One in the UK some time in early May. In mid April the Xbox One version of the game mysteriously disappeared from release schedules, with Activision simply saying that it was working with Microsoft in an …
Read More »Rare to delve into Kinect Sports Rivals development at Develop in Brighton
Afternoon of sessions devoted to design, art, production and programming of Xbox One title
Read More »"I did that!" – James Heller said he was the man who buried all those ET cartridges
The man who was responsible for burying huge numbers of Atari 2600 cartridges in the New Mexico desert has revealed himself. ET and others games were amongst the thousands of items recently unearthed in Alamagordo as part of a Microsoft documentary. And now local news network KBOI2 has named James …
Read More »Space Ape’s Samurai Siege averaging $2m a month on mobile
Strategy title downloaded more than 5.5 million times to date
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare platforms confirmed; Sledgehammer not making PS3 and 360 versions
The next Call of Duty won’t be released on Wii U, it seems. Amazon listings confirm Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare for PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC but not for Nintendo’s machine. We already knew the game will be released on November 4th. "Call of Duty: Advanced …
Read More »Tesco confirms Hudl smartphone plans
Tesco has revealed that it will launch an Android smartphone by the end of the year. Philip Clarke, Tesco’s chief executive, told BBC Radio 5 Live that the handset will be called the Hudl smartphone and will come with pre-installed Tesco services and feature hardware comparable to the Galaxy S5. …
Read More »New EVE Online FPS Project Legion in development for PC
CCP has revealed a new first-person shooter from the same team working on its free-to-play console multiplayer game Dust 514. The new title will build on the ideas of the console shooter and expand on them.CCP exec producer Jean-Charles Gaudechon said the new game would offer more of a sandbox …
Read More »Epic developing new UE4-powered Unreal Tournament
New title to be unveiled through Twitch stream
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