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Episodic adventure game maker Telltale Games is currently developing an upcoming crossover project with Gearbox Software involving the latter’s Borderlands franchise. Tales from the Borderlands will hit as an episodic release beginning sometime next year, with the game set to center around both established and newly created characters from the …
Read More »Bungie tabs Destiny worldwide launch for September 2014
Bungie’s upcoming multi-platform FPS Destiny will launch in September 2014, the studio has announced. The Activision-published title will release September 9th, 2014 on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. "Destiny has always represented a new beginning for our team. It was born from brave possibilities," Bungie’s announcement post states. …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: December 1-7
The Steam Early Access release of indie darling Terraria’s spiritual successor Starbound has vaulted to the top of Valve’s latest weekly top sellers chart. A host of past chart-toppers finish behind the highly-anticipated indie game, including Civlization V – which clocks in twice with its Brave New World expansion in …
Read More »From living in a university to 100,000 sales – The story of BetaDwarf
Steffen Kabbelgaard guides us through the Forced developer’s incredible three-year journey to make a game
Read More »Microsoft promises to safeguard against "advanced persistent threat" of government data snooping
Government monitoring of internet data presents an advanced persistent threat” according to a new pro-consumer blog from Microsoft. Many of our customers have serious concerns about government surveillance of the internet,” Microsoft’s general counsel and executive VP of legal and corporate affairs Brad Smith wrote. We share their concerns. That’s …
Read More »Read everything you need to know about free-to-play gaming in this week’s issue of MCV
In this week’s issue of MCV, we talk to Sony CEO Andrew House about the PS4 and why it’s taken an early victory in the next-gen war against Xbox One. House also details the lofty expectations for the new console, forecasting the PS4 to beat lifetime sales and 80 million …
Read More »Sony to announce PS4 launch date, price for India between 15-18 December
Sony has broken its silence on when it plans to announce launch details for the PS4 in India. Sony will hold a press conference between 15th and 18th December to reveal its launch plans for the PS4 in India, PlayStation India head Atindriya Bose told MCV at the launch of …
Read More »Training Spotlight: University of Hull
Hull is among the UK’s oldest institutions offering games development courses. But it prides itself on being a forward-thinking body that strives to ensure its students gain employment in this rapidly changing industry.The university has been training students into fully-fledged games programmers for 18 years, and has acquired a reputation …
Read More »"The reason Sony beats Microsoft is solely the price", Pachter believes
PS4’s early advantage over Xbox One is purely because it retails for 80 less. That’s according to Michael Pachter, who has downplayed the importance of PS4’s technical advantage or any of the controversy that has dogged Microsoft since E3. "The reason Sony beats Microsoft is solely the price," Wedbush Securities …
Read More »IMAGES: Gran Turismo 6 India launch
Continuing its partnership with Mercedes-Benz, Sony held the launch of Gran Turismo 6 at the German automaker’s Prbhadevi showroom in Mumbai today. Aside from officially launching the game in India, the event was also where the 17-city Gran Turismo Racing Challenge came to its conclusion. Aashish Jain from Chennai came …
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