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2K Games has announced that all editions of Borderlands 2 on PC will rely on Valve’s Steamworks suite. Developer Gearbox will be using Steamworks’ capabilities for multiplayer matchmaking, Steam Cloud storage, achievements, auto-patching, releasing DLC, and more. Valve’s service also works effectively as a simple DRM system for the game. …
Read More »Minecraft dev Mojang hires community members
Minecraft developer Mojang Specifications has acquired some new employees straight from its own community to help enhance server support for its massively popular sandbox title. The new hires were selected from the Minecraft community; specifically, the top four developers of Bukkit, a community-based group focused on Minecraft server implementation. [The …
Read More »Modern Warfare 3 Content Collection #1 hits Xbox Live this month
Activision has revealed Xbox Live release dates for the first of four Modern Warfare 3 content collections, with Call of Duty Elite premium status members scoring a chunk of the DLC a week early. Content Collection #1 brings the Liberation, Piazza, Overwatch and Black Box maps for multiplayer, along with …
Read More »Toshihiro Nagoshi named SEGA chief creative officer
Toshihiro Nagoshi, who headed up the teams that launched the Super Monkey Ball and Yakuza series, has been promoted to chief creative officer. Sega is in the midst of a major shift in its corporate structure upon the retirement of its chief operating officer, Okitane Usui. The executive will leave …
Read More »Facebook accused of antitrust violations
Lawyers claim the Facebook Credits program breaks antitrust laws
Read More »600 jobs lost at Blizzard
World of Warcraft house Blizzard Entertainment is to begin a global downsizing operation that will result in 600 job losses. The company claims that about sixty of these redundancies will come directly from game development, while the majority of redundancies affecting other areas of the business. Existing development and publishing …
Read More »Capcom: New Resident Evil can defy the market
Resident Evil pre-order numbers are through the roof, Capcom says. The firm believes Operation Raccoon City can defy the depressed market and attract a wider audience than just the core Resident Evil fan. Our pre-order figures have given us a huge amount of confidence that the title will perform well …
Read More »Sega sees Sonic toys sales surge
Sonic merchandise is in hot demand”, says Sega.The publisher launched a licensing drive for its mascot last year, and has partnered with a range of companies to put Sonic’s face on toys, bedding, posters and more. Sega has now launched its own online Sonic shop. In the last year we’ve …
Read More »Gravity Rush gets Euro release date on Vita
Sony has confirmed a European release date of June 13th for physics-defying action hit Gravity Rush on PlayStation Vita. As has been the way with the vast majority of Vita titles to date, the game will be sold both digitally through the PlayStation Network and via bricks and mortar retail. …
Read More »GAME shares fall 15% following EA crisis
Having this morning revealed that it will not be stocking key Q1 release Mass Effect 3, GAME’s share price has plunged 15 per cent. The retailer’s share price opened at 5.57p this morning. Despite climbing briefly to 5.98p, in the hours that followed the Mass Effect 3 news the price …
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