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After years of saying it has no plans for a Skylanders film or cartoon, Activision has announced a TV show based on the toys-to-life brand. Dubbed Skylanders Academy, the project is set to debut on Netflix this autumn. This is the first project to emerge from the TV and film …
Read More »E3 2016 roundup: violence, drama and million dollar events
Do you remember when EA ‘wasn’t at E3′? It was an entertaining story for a while, until we ended up in LA, and saw that the apparently AWOL EA had actually taken over five floors of its own venue, before it held a press conference that took place across two …
Read More »Amazon and TIGA hosting free dev day next week
Future Games of London and I Fight Bears among speakers for mobile conference
Read More »Allison Road cancellation due to Team 17 split, Lilith says
Developer Lilith has blamed the recent shock cancellation of horror title Allison Road on a split with publishing partner Team 17. After a long consideration between Team17 and ourselves, we have reached a mutual agreement to end our collaboration on publishing Allison Road under Team17’s Games label,” Lileth said. Sometimes …
Read More »Unreal Diaries: VR for the masses
With Unreal Engine support for Google’s Daydream platform, mobile VR is ready to reach all-new heights
Read More »How could the Brexit impact the UK games industry?
Next week, the UK will vote in the EU Referendum. Whether we remain within the European Union or leave, the decision will have far-reaching consequences for our country’s future. But how will the games industry be voting? According to a survey of its members carried out by UK games trade …
Read More »Check out our E3 roundup in this week’s MCV
What a week! MCV is this week looking back at what has been one of the noisiest and more eventful E3’s in history. We also discuss the Brexit and how it could affect the UK games industry, with help from UKIE. Elsewhere, we speak to EA’s senior producer Nick Channon …
Read More »A force awakens: Magic Leap and Lucasfilm launch collaborative mixed reality lab
‘Semi-secret’ research outlet will work on experiences themed around Star Wars for tech firm’s AR tech
Read More »Dead Rising 4 is a Microsoft exclusive for one year
The latest Dead Rising game will likely make its way onto PlayStation. Eurogamer reports that Capcom’s official stance on Dead Rising 4 is as follows: "You’ll be able to play it first on Xbox One and Windows 10." ‘First’. It now seems that Capcom reps have been telling journalists that …
Read More »Nintendo says NX ‘is not about specs’
It seems that NX will not look to compete with rivals Xbox Scorpio and PS4 Neo in raw performance terms. The NX will have entered the design phase before Scorpio or Neo were known entities. However, it’s not even known whether it will be able to stand toe-to-toe with existing …
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