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The fate of BioShock Vita can certainly be described as ‘uncertain’. The game was announced in June 2011 at E3 but has been MIA ever since. The first worrying noises began emerging in late 2012 when Ken Levine said that the SKU’s future was in the hands of business people”. …
Read More »Develop Awards 2014 lobbying opens
The Develop Awards are back this July, with four new prizes up for grabs, and you can lobby to be nominated for one right now. The hugely popular industry event will once again reward the very best innovators in games development from the UK and Europe. It will be held …
Read More »Nvidia’s GTX Titan Black looking to claim back graphics power crown
Having been surpassed by the Radeon R9 290X and GTX 780Ti, the Nvidia Titan is staging a big comeback. The new GTX Titan Black, like its predecessor, packs 6GB of onboard memory running at 7GHz with a peak frequency of 980 MHz and the full GK 110 die complete with …
Read More »VIDEO: Minecraft introduces mini-games
Mojang is currently testing mini-games in Minecraft. As detailed in the video below, the current beta build for the subscription Minecraft Realms service offers mini-games as a selectable option from the main menu. The current offering includes Cake Defence 2, Blocks vs Zombies, The Walls, Autospleef and Dash of Doom. …
Read More »Green Man Gaming ‘to consider software publishing’ in 2014
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 …
Read More »Lobbying guide: Do you deserve a Develop Award?
Everything you need to know about this year's Develop Awards, the new categories and how to win
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 …
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