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In an interview with MCV at the ECS finals, Luminosity player Marcelo "coldzera" David said his iconic AWP play at the last major was lucky”. The play saw the Brazilian take down four members of Team Liquid with just three bullets from his AWP sniper rifle, and turn a game …
Read More »Mass Effect Andromeda trailer’s female trailer star shows industry progress, BioWare says
Did you notice how there was precisely zero fuss made about the female star who appeared in the Mass Effect Andromeda trailer? Pretty cool, huh? Back in 2011 EA, with much fanfare, proclaimed that a female version of original Mass Effect trilogy hero Shepard would star in one of Mass …
Read More »Platform exclusivity is good for VR, Palmer Luckey argues
Oculus boss Palmer Luckey has argued back against those who believe that platform exclusive VR games are damaging. You see Sony investing in their content the same way,” Luckey told TechCrunch. They want to make things that take advantage of their features that they have in the best way possible. …
Read More »Nintendo denies Paper Mario joke is Gamergate reference
A couple of references that have been interpreted as a call out to the Gamergate hate campaign are nothing of the sort, Nintendo has said. Two pieces of dialogue plucked from a demo of Wii U title Paper Mario: Color Splash were called out by harassment victim Zoe Quinn as …
Read More »Google: ‘There has been a marked shift in the way developers advertise’
Vinod Ramachandran, senior product manager for Google’s app install advertising business, reveals the ways games advertising has evolved and breaks down the tech giant’s options for creators looking to get their title noticed
Read More »MCV’s games of E3 2016
We played the games, we watched the trailers and we spoke to the UK games industry to come up with our top titles from E3 2016. INDIE GAME OF E3 We Happy Few From: Compulsion Games Platforms: Xbox One, PC, PS4 Out: July 26th (Early Access) This creepy survival game …
Read More »Minter’s Llamasoft has abandoned iOS development
Llamasoft founder Jeff Minter has revealed that the studio was forced to abandon development for iOS after the platform proved to be unsustainable. The Space Giraffe, Tempest 2000 and Gridrunner creator said on the dev’sblog: We spent two years doing games on iOS and in the end we stopped doing …
Read More »Twitter’s Fabric for Unity adds full native MoPub support
Integration of monetisation platform for mobile apps includes manual initialisation and deferred SDK activation during onboarding
Read More »UKIE and TIGA outline their Brexit positions
The UK’s two big video games trade bodies have reacted to Britain’s shock decision to leave the EU. UKIE’s statement The UK has voted to leave the European Union after an historic EU Referendum on Thursday. Leave won by 52% to 48% for the Remain campaign, with an overall voting …
Read More »Devil’s Third multiplayer is being shut down
The online component of Tomonobu Itagaki’s Devil’s Third for Wii U will be shut down in December. Nintendo has revealed that its servers will be switched off on December 29th. That’s just 16 months after the game was released in Europe and Japan and a year after its North American …
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