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Day Z creator Dean Hall has a real sense of urgency when it comes to getting a standalone version of his popular ArmA II mod into players’ hands. Speaking duing a panel at Eurogamer Expo, Hall revealed that it isn’t a question of wanting to get the game into players …
Read More »EA cancels NBA Live 13
EA Sports has announced the cancellation of NBA Live 13. The decision marks the second time in the last few years that EA has canned its NBA sim in the eleventh hour. That said, the studio has plans for the franchise next year. "Having continued to look at the game …
Read More »Fake account sweep on Facebook causes fan decline for Zynga titles
Zynga has taken a hit in regards to the publisher’s community numbers thanks to Facebook implementing measures to remove fraudulent ‘Likes’ from its pages. Tech Crunch reports the firm, along with many other companies on the social network, saw drops in fan numbers after Facebook went about weeding out fake, …
Read More »GamesAid reveals successful 2012 charities
The games industry gave five charities supporting disadvantaged kids big donation cheques this evening. UK video games charity GamesAid this evening revealed the winners of its 2012 member vote. Action For Kids, Jigsaw4U, Small Steps, Special Effect and The Willow Foundation were the five charities that got the nod from …
Read More »Fergal Gara amongst six new UKIE board members
UK gaming trade body UKIE has revealed the names of the six people – four of whom are developer – who have been appointed to its board. The development heads are Noirin Carmody (owner and COO of Revolution Software), Miles Jacobson (studio director, Sports Interactive), Alice Taylor (CEO and founder, …
Read More »UPDATED: FIFA 13 price roundup – where’s cheapest
It’s one of the biggest video game retail highlights of the year. And today we should find out how far retailers are willing to go to secure their day one marketshare. Hundreds of retailers will be opening their doors at midnight tonight to welcome the arrival of the game and …
Read More »Persson blocks Minecraft’s Windows 8 certification
Minecraft creator Markus Notch” Persson had made a public declaration of opposition to Microsoft’s Windows 8 platform. Microsoft has been certifying software since the days of Windows XP. Certification is supposed to offer the user a certain quality benchmark and requires software to meet a number of technical requirements. However, …
Read More »Why Jeff Karp left Zynga
The casual gaming giant's former CMO tells Develop why he left and joined multimedia firm GSN
Read More »Resident Evil 6 presents the world’s first human butchery in London
Vegetarians and squeamish types might want to turn away. Capcom will tomorrow open the world’s first human butchery at London’s famous Smithfields meat market. It will trade for two days from Friday September 28th. It’s fronted by fictional butcher Wesker & Son and will offer members of the public the …
Read More »VIDEO: Black Ops 2 features expanded 8-player zombie mode
It’s a Call of Duty game. Made by Treyarch. And that, as well know by now, means zombies. And this year, it will mean more zombies than ever before. Polygon reports that the game will for the first time support eight players simultaneously – a significant evolution for a game …
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