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Rock Band and Dance Central developer Harmonix is to try its hand at the shooter genre. The studio has announced a new free-to-play musical themed shooter called Chroma for the PC which is being co-developed with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive studio Hidden Path Entertainment. Player movement and weapons will generate music, …
Read More »Developers prefer PS4 over Xbox One and Wii U, GDC survey claims
But PC, mobile and tablet platforms are the most popular systems amongst game makers
Read More »Candy Crush Saga’s King files for IPO
Free-to-play specialist King has filed for an IPO as it plans to go public. It will list on the New York Stock Exchange as King Digital Entertainment using the ticker symbol ‘KING’. The filing also revealed that King’s 2013 revenues hit $1.88bn with net profit reaching $567.6m. That’s up a …
Read More »100 exclusive GAME Thief lock-ins up for grabs
GAME and Sony have teamed up to offer 100 exclusive store lock-ins with upcoming release Thief. These differ from GAME’s regular lock-ins in that the events, which will take place on the day before the game’s release on Thursday February 27th, are only for the winners and their mates. Those …
Read More »Skylanders figure releases to become more evenly distributed
Activision is to reduce the annualised focus of the Skylanders brand. The revised strategy will apply to the remaining figures in its Swap Force range, Activision’s Glenn Oliver has told Polygon, which will be released in small groups every few months or so”. There will also be more re-releases of …
Read More »VIDEO: The Order 1886 video and screens leak online
A gameplay video for Sony’s upcoming PS4 exclusive The Order: 1886 has appeared online, and you can see it below. The footage originally appeared on DailyMotion but has now made its way onto YouTube. Both files can be seen here. In addition, a number of screens have been posted on …
Read More »Babel Media acquired by Keywords Studios
Game testing and localisation company Keywords Studios has acquired outsourcing services provider Babel Media. As part of the acquisition, Keywords has said it will settle current financial obligations of Babel and pay sellers to a total of 5.3m. Around 2.2m of the acquisition will be funded by the issue of …
Read More »Sega breathes new life into Atlus as development brand returns
The Atlus brand has been resurrected by new owner Sega Sammy. Atlus owner Index filed for bankruptcy in June of last year and was three months later acquired by Sega. Now Gematsu reports that the Index subsidiary will on April 1st be split into two companies – Atlus and Index. …
Read More »Global PS4 sales hit 5.3m
The PS4 has, as of February 8th, sold 5.3m units worldwide. The last time Sony released a sales figure was on January 7th when sales stood at 4.2m units. All of which means Sony has already hit its target of wanting to sell 5m machines by the end of March …
Read More »Valve denies Steam anti-cheat system reports users’ browser histories
Valve’s headman Gabe Newell has responded to accusations that Valve’s anti-cheat system is combing through and reporting the browsing history of Steam users, outright denying the claims. Posting directly to Reddit, where the allegations were originally presented, Newell discussed what Steam’s VAC system does that might appear as if it’s …
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