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Last night’s video games BAFTAs were crowned with a rare public appearance from the media-shy Houser brothers. The Rockstar founders were handed their BAFTA Fellowship by non other than Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima. This is a tremendous honour for us as a mostly British run company and as passionate …
Read More »King IPO values firm at £4.6bn
Candy Crush Saga studio King is pushing to generate $530m (319m) in an initial public offering that would see the British game maker valued at up to $7.6bn (4.6bn). 15.5m shares for in the company will be made available for between $21 and $24 a piece when King floats on …
Read More »Loading Bar loses London home
The popular gaming bar Loading has called time on its Soho location. The firm’s makeshift home on Rupert Street has been a fashionable hang out place for gamers, developers and industry types, and has held a number of events for the likes of 2K, Creative Assembly, Ubisoft, Team 17 and …
Read More »Smash Bros director praises PS4
Masahiro Sakurai has outlined has admiration for Sony’s PS4. I don’t care for faction wars like Nintendo versus Sony,” the Smash Bros director told Famitsu, as translated by Gematsu. PlayStation 4 is good-looking, the DualShock 4 is light and using it feels good, Remote Play can reliably handle even action …
Read More »Witcher 3 delay won’t hold up Cyberpunk 2077
The freshly announced delay for CD Projekt’s The Witcher 3 shouldn’t worry those with an eye on Cyberpunk 2077, the dev has said. The upcoming medieval RPG was on Tuesday pushed back from late 2014 to February 2015. "Cyberpunk 2077 is developed by a separate team within CD Projekt Red, …
Read More »The Amazing Spider-Man 2 dated, priced for India
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will release in India on 29th April, Activision’s Indian distributor, World Wide CD ROMs has announced. The game will release in India on PS4 for Rs 3,499, as well as on PS3 and Xbox 360 for Rs 2,999. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 game has an alternative …
Read More »GAME details Titanfall launch events
GAME will be holding a number of midnight launches to celebrate the release of Titanfall. 216 shops are to hold launch events tonight for EA’s blockbuster shooter. We’re really excited for the debut of Titanfall – last year’s demo at E3 made a huge impact and gamers have been waiting …
Read More »Titanfall wasn’t originally planned for Xbox One
Respawn has admitted that next-gen wasn’t an original element of the Titanfall plan. "Originally we weren’t planning on an Xbox One version of the game,” Respawn lead engineer Richard Baker told Eurogamer. I’m certain that having an Xbox One version has made our PC version much better – it justified …
Read More »Video: Unreal Engine 4 lights up on Firefox
Epic showcases its game development powerhouse running ‘near-natively’ on a web browser
Read More »Pure Chess dated for Wii U and 3DS; Features smartphone cross-play
Ripstone has confirmed that Pure Chess will be available on the Nintendo eShop later this month. The game launches on the Wii U and 3DS digital stores on March 20th with a price tag of 4.99. The title also features a cross-platform play system that allows 3DS and Wii U …
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