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An unidentified Take-Two title suggested to be Mafia III will take place in Louisiana, according to a rumoured casting call by the publisher. Eurogamer reports on the document in question, which show a trio of character biographies that describe a title focused on underground crime and set in Louisiana. The …
Read More »Google acquires Green Throttle Games staff and assets
Google has hired on former staff members and purchased assets from the now defunct Green Throttle Games development studio. The company confirmed the acquisition to PandoDaily, though declined to go into specifics on the deal. Green Throttle was founded by Guitar Hero vets Charles Huang, Matt Crowley, and Karl Townsend. …
Read More »Ubisoft "forced" Montreal studio into Watch Dogs E3 2012 reveal
The studio developing Watch Dogs didn’t want to reveal Watch Dogs way back at E3 2012. Speaking to Edge magazine, as reported by Videogamer, creative director Jonathan Morin said Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot was the mean pushing for the early reveal. "They forced us to go at E3 2012," Morin …
Read More »Nvidia to bundle Daylight, free-to-play game credits with Geforce GTX cards
Nvidia has announced a new set of game bundles for Geforce GTX desktop graphics cards and Geforce-powered laptops. Starting today, buyers of Geforce GTX Titan, 780 Ti, 780, 770, 760, 690, 680, 670, 660 Ti and 660 cards will receive a download code for survival-horror game Daylight, which releases on …
Read More »UKIE: EU Commission must talk to games industry over F2P controversy
The EU Commission must talk to UK games firms before taking drastic action against the controversial free-to-play business model, says UKIE. The microtransation model has come under fire in recent months, facing accusations of misleading customers, particularly children, over the real cost of ‘free’ games. It sparked an investigation by …
Read More »‘Valve is letting developers be the shopkeeper’
UK developers have hailed Steam’s decision to let them hold their own sales. Creators can now introduce custom discounts to their games on the PC download platform, schedule future sales and even opt in for the Steam’s week-long sales. And developer Garry Newman of Facepunch Studios has played down concerns …
Read More »Print can win over ‘YouTube generation’
Print magazines can still attract the millions currently getting their gaming news from YouTube. That’s according to the team behind One Gamer Interactive, who hope to attract a digital-savvy audience with this new iPad publication. It’s no big secret that print magazines don’t have the strong mainstream presence that they …
Read More »Chips is back on the rise
The story of Chips summarises the pressures that has faced games retailers over the last three years. Price competition from supermarkets and online retailers, coupled with a shrinking release schedule and a rising digital market place, has made selling games in the UK an incredibly challenging job. We’ve seen mass …
Read More »Molyneux apologises as Godus 2.0 arrives on Steam
A significant update to 22Cans’ Godus has gone live on Steam. It was announced by creator Peter Molyneux on Twitter, along with an apology for what the developer now sees were imperfections with the game’s initial build. We collated all your feedback and realised we needed to make these vast …
Read More »PS4 passes 400k sales in Japan, pips Vita in charts
PlayStation 4 is still the best-selling games console in Japan. Information supplied to MCV from Famitsu shows that the hardware’s install base now stands at 405,546 units strong three weeks since it launched. The hardware is so popular that most stores are now starting to run out of stock and …
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