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Microsoft has announced that it will be raising the prices of its business software and cloud services in the UK as a result of Brexit. Microsoft’s blog post revealed that the company will be raising business software prices by 13% and cloud service prices by a whopping 22% from January …
Read More »How Life is Strange changed Dontnod
Back in 2013, Capcom launched what it hoped would be a major new action series. Remember Me was a unique, cyberpunk story-driven triple-A game from new French developer Dontnod – a studio set-up by former Criterion, EA and Ubisoft creators. The team had spent almost five years on the game, …
Read More »Hasbro is being sued by Peak Games over a My Little Pony game
Turkish developer Peak Games is suing Hasbro as they claim that the recent My Little Pony: Puzzle Party game copies their game Toy Blast. According to VentureBeat, Peak Games filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco and have alleged that Hasbro’s Backflip Studios have taken their …
Read More »Telltale talks Mr Robot, Batman and its new publishing business
Telltale doesn’t make games like other people. It doesn’t begin a game with a prototype or concept art, instead it starts with a script. We don’t produce a game visually until we feel we have completed the script,” explains Job Stauffer, the head of creative communications at The Walking Dead, …
Read More »Pokémon Go’s Halloween event will give you more Drowzees
Pokmon Go is getting its first seasonal event, in the form of the Halloween update that will increase the spawn rates of spooky critters. Starting on October 26th spawn rates for spooky Pokmon will increase. These Pokmon include the likes of Gastly, Gengar, Haunter, Zubat, Golbat, Drowzee and Hypno. While …
Read More »Nintendo patents may reveal new Switch features
A series of patents filed by Nintendo may offer up a look at some unannounced features for the Switch. Over the last few months Nintendo has filed a number of patents that seem to relate to the recently announced Switch console. The drawings in the patents seem to show the …
Read More »New Call of Duty World League season starts with MLG Las Vegas
The new season of the Call of Duty World League will kick off on December 16th 2016 with the start of MLG Las Vegas. The competition will feature top North American teams battling it out for a share of the $100,000 prize pool at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas …
Read More »Firaxis on what changes Civilization VI has brought
If you ever needed proof that the strategy genre is anything but niche, take one look at Civilization. It’s a deep, complicated turn-based strategy franchise that has sold in excess of 33m copies in its 25-year history. The most successful was Civilization V with 8m games sold to date. The …
Read More »Japanese schoolgirl game has £68 DLC that lets you see through people’s clothes
Gal*Gun: Double Peace, a Japanese on rails shooter that sees you fend off school girls, has a 67.99 microtransaction that gives you the ability to see through the girl’s clothes. As spotted by Eurogamer, the microtransaction adds the Pheromone Z item to the in game store. Once you equip this …
Read More »Mark Cerny goes in depth on the PS4 Pro, reveals double GPU size
Mark Cerny took to the stage at Sony’s San Mateo office to talk about the PS4 Pro and reveal a few interesting hardware specs. Speaking at the event Cerny spoke about the improved graphics tech inside the upcoming PS4 Pro, saying that they doubled the power by basically duplicating the …
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