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It was in 2011 that I first met Yasuhiro Fukushima and his team from Japan. The venue was the food court at a mall in suburban Mumbai; not the sort of place I’d have expected to meet the honorary chairman of Square Enix, but he was on a tight schedule. …
Read More »Phil Fish lashes out at ‘anti-indie’ Xbox One policies
Fez creator says he won't bring sequel to Microsoft consoles
Read More »Fish: Microsoft won’t let me develop for their console, but Sony will
Fez 2 won’t land on any of Microsoft’s platforms because the company doesn’t want it there, creator Phil Fish has stated. Speaking with Polygon, Fish explained that Polytron has no plans to release the sequel on Xbox consoles based on Microsoft’s no self-publishing policy. With Microsoft they’ve made it painfully …
Read More »Eidos confirms Thief for current consoles alongside next-gen launch
Eidos Montreal’s Thief reboot will launch simultaneously on PC, current and next-gen consoles when it arrives next year. The studio’s community manager Adam Badke and the title’s senior producer Stephane Roy announced the info as part of a developer video. The core gameplay of Thief on current-gen and next-gen consoles …
Read More »Skulls of the Shogun developer: Microsoft too incompetent to be evil
Skulls of the Shogun developer Plush Apocalypse Productions has sounded off about the studio’s troubling experience with Microsoft Studios. The game had an exclusivity deal on the game for Xbox 360 and Windows 8 phones and tablets, a deal that’s near its end. Plush Apocalypse’s Borut Pfeifer apparently felt the …
Read More »Retailer lists PS4 for November 13th launch
A European retailer may have let slip the release date for Sony’s next-generation console. The poster below, spotted by a NeoGAF member in the Amsterdam branch of games specialist Media Markt, suggests that PlayStation 4 would be on sale from November 13th. Sony already promised that the device would be …
Read More »GAME "immensely impressed" with Microsoft rethink
The UK’s leading games retailer GAME has welcomed Microsoft Xbox One rethink. Microsoft have shown that they truly understand and value their fan base and the gaming community as a whole,” GAME’s Martyn Gibbs told Edge. Microsoft have listened to the feedback of recent weeks and acted on it, putting …
Read More »Microsoft "prepared to cut Xbox One price", is "convinced gamers will appreciate Kinect"
US analyst Michael Pachter believes that Microsoft IS prepared to lower the price of Xbox One if it falls too far behind PS4. However, following last night’s dramatic about-face the analyst reckons that Microsoft could yet salvage the situation and achieve next-gen dominance. "Microsoft intends to offer a more robust …
Read More »Shield gets a pre-launch price cut from Nvidia
Nvidia has cut the price of its upcoming Android portable and PC games streaming device Shield. The machine, launched on June 27th, was due to be released for $350 but will now be available for just $300. "We’ve heard from thousands of gamers that if the price was $299, we’d …
Read More »Bleszinski: Sony forced Xbox One changes, not the internet
Changes mean consumers can expect more 'tacked on' multiplayer modes and DLC, says Gears of War creator
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