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Digital games retailer Green Man Gaming says it could begin publishing games later this year. CEO Paul Sulyok told MCV’s sister publication PCR that becoming a publisher was certainly something we’d consider in 2014”. He added that if the firm did opt to publish its own titles, it would stray …
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Read More »Respawn dev dignifies Titanfall bribery trolls with response
The press has reacted really positively to the now-ended Titanfall beta – and that seems to have caused upset. Accusations that the media has somehow been bribed by Microsoft and/or Respawn and/or EA into over-hyping” the upcoming multiplayer shooter have been rampant online in forums and comments sections. Because it’s …
Read More »Total War: Rome II fans upset over alleged cut content in premium DLC
Creative Assembly’s Total War: Rome II has again fallen under fan scrutiny, this time over paid DLC allegedly including cut content from the game’s pre-release version. Players claim that the Camel Cataphract units featured in the recently released Beasts of War pack were originally seen in a Let’s Play video …
Read More »Valve’s Dota 2 documentary ‘Free To Play’ premieres next month
The Valve-produced Dota 2 documentary Free to Play will arrive March 19th on Steam, the company has announced. "[Free To Play] takes viewers around the globe to meet the players, their families and their loved ones as they prepare to play for the first $1 million prize ever awarded in …
Read More »Square Enix ‘definitely interested’ in future Final Fantasy games on PC
Future Final Fantasy series releases could see release on the Windows PC platform, Square Enix has revealed. Franchise producer Yoshinori Kitase confirmed to Eurogamer that the company is interested in developing for the platform – explaining that complex issues” relating to security and the platform’s past market situation were the …
Read More »Gran Turismo Academy winner signed by Red Bull GP3 team
A former winner of Sony’s Gran Turismo Academy competition has been signed up as a driver for a real-life race team. The BBC reports that 22-year old Jann Mardenborough is joining Red Bull’s Arden Motorsport team to compete in the 2014 GP3 series – that’s just two notches below F1 …
Read More »Doom 4 lives!
A new trailer for Wolfenstein: The New Order has confirmed that a new Doom title IS in development. Those who pre-order Wolfenstein – which incidentally now has a May 23rd release date on PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 – will get access to what is being called ‘Doom Beta’. …
Read More »Forza Motorsport 5 sells over 1m copies
Players have driven more than 653 million miles from 8m hours of gameplay
Read More »Microsoft explains Xbox One TV ad ‘glitch’
A glitch that had appeared in the UK TV ad for Xbox One at the end of last month has been revealed as a competition. A one-second disruption was apparently inserted into the ‘Invitation’ TV short in January. That one second contained 25 frames, in which were hidden a series …
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