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Ubisoft has acquired DJ Hero and Guitar Hero Live studio FreeStyleGames from Activision. The UK studio, based in Leamington Spa, will be renamed Ubisoft Leamington and will be headed up by Richard Blenkinsop, the new managing director at Ubisoft Reflections. Announced via blog post on Ubisoft’s website, Ubisoft Leamington will …
Read More »Pawel Zawodny launches new Poland-based studio, Strange New Things
Promises to deliver strange new things
Read More »Nintendo hints at another Switch Zelda game after Breath of the Wild
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild hasn’t even launched yet, but franchise producer Eiji Aonuma is already teasing a new instalment in the series for the Nintendo Switch. Talking to IGN, Aonuma said this new game could happen in order to fully use the Switch’s potential. I haven’t …
Read More »UPDATED: Nintendo Switch boxes and UK Zelda Breath of the Wild special editions revealed
Nintendo has unveiled the packaging for its new Nintendo Switch titles. As seen on Nintendo of America’s website,Switch games will be packaged in long, vertical cases not too dissimilar from PSP boxes. So far, only a few boxes have appeared in their final form online, including Zelda: Breath of the …
Read More »GAME growth held back by low margin hardware
GAME’s annual general meeting today came with an update on trading from the back-end of last year. The headlines are huge growth in its Events, eSports and Digital categories, but overall transactions were down, due to reduced margins on hardware. For the 23 weeks up to January 7th, the group …
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg denies accusations in Oculus vs ZeniMax trial
Mark Zuckerberg has provided new information in the $2bn lawsuit between ZeniMax Media and Oculus, denying accusations that Oculus stole VR technology from ZeniMax. The Facebook founder, who gave his testimony in the trial yesterday, said: We are highly confident that Oculus products are built on Oculus technology. The idea …
Read More »Parliamentary group support for TIGA’s £5m games investment fund
Trade association TIGA has called for a games investment fund (GIF) to help support small and medium-sized developers who often struggle to gain access to finance. The scheme has support of the co-chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Video Games – MP’s Chris White and Chris Law. The …
Read More »Watch Dogs 2 gets three-hour free trial on PS4, with Xbox One to follow
Ubisoft has announced that a free trial for Watch Dogs 2 is now available to download for PS4 owners, with an Xbox One version coming on January 24th. During the free trial, players will have three hours to explore the world of San Francisco and its Dedsec hackers, and they’ll …
Read More »Gabe Newell hints at new Valve game and movies in Reddit AMA
Gabe Newell took some time to conduct an AMA yesterday, confirming there’s a new game set in the shared Half Life/Portal universe currently in development and that Valve is also working on a fully-fledged” single player game – we don’t know if these are two different projects or the same …
Read More »Little Nightmares release date confirmed for April 28th
Puzzle platformer Little Nightmares will be released both physically and digitally on April 28th on PS4, Xbox One and PC, publisher Bandai Namco has announced. There will be two editions of the game to buy at launch – the standard version plus a limited Six Edition, which is exclusive to …
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