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Read More »Cities: Skylines coming to Xbox One this spring
Management sim Cities: Skylines is coming to Xbox One later this year, Paradox Interactive has announced. The game will launch this spring and will also include the original’s first expansion, Cities: Skylines – After Dark. Cities: Skylines – Xbox One Edition is being ported by Tantalus Media (previously responsible for …
Read More »Gabe Newell: “At Valve, we don’t have a budgeting process”
Newell sheds light on how games get made at Valve
Read More »Starbreeze’s StarVR headset to enter mass production late 2017
Starbreeze is to begin mass producing its StarVR headsets later this year, the company revealed in its full year report for 2016. For now, the publisher will continue to distribute and prioritise development on the current version of the headset to its key partners, but there’s been interest from "multiple …
Read More »Starbreeze net revenue up 58%, ‘over the moon’ with Dead by Daylight
Starbreeze has released it full year-end report for 2016 and its net revenue for the year was up 58 per cent year-on-year, reaching 345.5m Swedish Krona (SEK) (or 31m). The publisher had a particularly healthy Q4 as well, with net revenue totalling 99.4m SEK (8.9m), showing a growth of 103 …
Read More »RSC Anderlecht looking to sign a FIFA player
Belgian football club RSC Anderlecht has announced its intention to sign a FIFA player. The club will hold an open trial on April 29th and 30th, with up to 256 player taking part. Those that do well will be invited to annual RSCA fan day where the final round of …
Read More »Sony to cease PlayStation Now support for everything but the PS4 and PC
Won't somebody think of the PS Vita?
Read More »Twitch users spent 292bn minutes watching streamers in 2016, Overwatch most watched new game
Twitch has released its interactive 2016 Year in Review, revealing that users spent 292bn minutes watching Twitch last year, and that Blizzard’s Overwatch was the most-watched new game of 2016. To put that in more quantifiable terms, that’s 4.86bn hours, or 555,555 years. Twitch’s favourite shooter overall remained Counter Strike: …
Read More »Supercell on the hunt for acquisitions as Clash Royale surpasses $1bn
Tencent-owned Finnish mobile powerhouse Supercell is reportedly on the lookout for purchases. That’s according to the Financial Times story, in which the the firm’s CEO Ilkka Paananen said that it was ‘no secret’ that the company was looking to get involved with other studios. It’s no secret we have been …
Read More »Microsoft’s E3 press conference dated for Sunday June 11th
Microsoft has dated its E3 2017 press conference for Sunday June 11th at 2pm PT (that’s 10pm in the UK) and it will be taking place at the Galen Center in LA. That’s a day earlier than Microsoft’s usual E3 slot, as the company traditionally holds its E3 presser on …
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