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Platform holder Microsoft has announced that it ditching its Fitness app on the Xbox One. Writing on the Microsoft Studios website, marketing and social media specialist Erica Bell said that the company has opted to scale back its support for Xbox Fitness due to the realities of having to update …
Read More »Zelda: Breath of the Wild must sell 2m copies to be profitable, report
Upcoming Wii U and NX The Legend of Zelda game Breath of the Wild has to sell more than 2m units in order to make back its development costs. That’s according to a translation of Nintendo’s latest investor Q&A by Twitter user Cheesemeister3k, in which Shigeru Miyamoto is reported to …
Read More »Develop Awards 2016 Partner Spotlight: MoGi
CEO Orad Elkayam reveals why collaboration is vital for the growth of the development industry
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: Nintendo UK welcomes new general manager
Wegnez replaces Simon Kemp,Yogscast community manager joins Sold Out and video producer leaves GameSpot. Nintendo hires new UK general manager The platform holder’s UK general manager Simon Kemp has left the firm. He had joined Nintendo in 2012 to replace David Yarnton, having previously worked for the likes of GSK …
Read More »Three Tetris films coming up because story is too big for just one
The producer of the upcoming Tetris movie has explained why it is the first part in a trilogy. Speaking to film publication Empire, Larry Kasanoff said that the story they have in mind for the film is ‘so big’ that they need three films to cover it. In May, it …
Read More »Founders of closed Microsoft studio Press Play form Lightbulb
Danish indie shuttered alongside Lionhead working on PC construction title Pioneers
Read More »Minecraft film set for 2019 release
Mojang has revealed that the Minecraft film is launching in just under three years. In a post on the developer’s website, COO Vu Bui announced that the film will be hitting the silver screen on May 24th, 2019. Furthermore, the flick will be coming out in 3D and Imax, too. …
Read More »Batman: Return to Arkham HD collection delayed
Warner Bros’ Batman: Return to Arkham HD collection will not be hitting its July release date. In a post on the publisher’s community forum, a member of Warner Bros staff, Steve Grayson, announced that the title had been delayed indefinitely. The reason for this is apparently to give Virtuous Games …
Read More »G2A announces new measures to appease game developers
Key-reseller marketplace G2A has revealed some improvements to its offering to keep game companies happy. The firm has announced that studios and publishers can now make money from third-party auctions. One of the criticisms levelled at G2A by publishers was that they didn’t see a penny from some sales of …
Read More »PlayStation: ‘VR uncertainty is liberating for developers’
PlayStation surprised us this year. If you had asked us what we would have expected ahead of their pre-E3 press conference, we would have suggested a hardware-centric show, featuring PlayStation VR and the firm’s new ‘Neo’ console. We would have put our money on the traditional sizzle reel of inventive …
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