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Components manufacturer Nvidia has spoken in revolutionary terms about Nintendo’s in-development Switch console. Nvidia is supplying the innards for the machine, which currently has a global release date of March. We’ve worked with them now for almost two years. Several hundred engineering years have gone into the development of this …
Read More »Zelda: Breath of the Wild to miss Switch launch, rumour claims
Nintendo Switch will launch without the help of popular adventurer Link. That’s according to established Nintendo tipster Emily Rogers. She has heard that localisation work for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has gone on for longer than anticipated, with a current ETA of December. However, once complete …
Read More »Guardians of the Galaxy is getting the Telltale treatment, it seems
A list of projects affected by the US voice actors strike has revealed that Telltale Games is working on a Guardians of the Galaxy title. ComicBookMovie spotted an entry for the game, which on the aforementioned document was named ‘Guardians of the Galaxy – The Video Games aka Blue Harvest …
Read More »FIFA hackers stole millions from EA, FBI believes
EA was the victim of a sophisticated hacking program that tapped into unearned FIFA coin funds. That’s what the FBI has claimed, Kotaku reports, after it came to light that it is taking four men to court for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. It is alleged that the defendants, who …
Read More »Ubisoft execs accused of insider trading
Five Ubisoft executives have been accused of selling stock in the company ahead of its announcement of two key game delays. Kotaku reports that CEO Yannis Mallat and four other executives sold shares ahead of the announcement on October 15th 2013 that both Watch Dogs and The Crew were being …
Read More »MIT lab is working on a new wireless VR system, MoVir
MIT CSAIL prototype is headset agnostic
Read More »Wargaming launches Alliance publishing label, teams up with Sega to release Total War Arena
Wargaming has started a new publishing label called Wargaming Alliance. This a third party publishing label that plays to Wargaming’s strengths, aiming to give developers the tools and resources to get into free-to-play gaming. Today, in addition to announced the newly created publishing label, they’re announcing their partnership with Sega …
Read More »Several titles are performing worse for the PS4 Pro than the PS4
Eurogamer's Digital Foundry reveals the bad news
Read More »Nexon acquire 49% equity stake in Thai publisher iDCC
Planning to buy the rest as soon as Thai government approve the deal
Read More »Wargaming launches Wargaming Alliance publishing label with Total War: Arena as first release
Label aiming to help third party developers with the move to free-to-play
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