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The next entry in Capcom’s Resident Evil series will be a ‘clean slate’ and a return to the franchise’s horror roots. That’s according to industry analyst Dr Serkan Toto, who said on the Twitter (below) that Resident Evil 7 is indeed in development. It will also ‘go back to RE’s …
Read More »EA forms Frostbite Labs to focus on developing future tech
Virtual humans in VR and ‘deep learning’ among ‘longer-term’ topics being researched by 30 to 40-strong team
Read More »International Factfile 2016: Germany
Half of the German population plays games according to data firm Newzoo. These 41.5m consumers allowed the German market to increase by two per cent in 2015, generating $4bn (2.7bn) in revenues. Germany is the biggest games market in Europe and Newzoo predicts that its revenues will continue to grow …
Read More »IGN acquires GameTrailers name and videos
GameTrailers may not be quite as dead as previously thought. Media giant IGN has stepped in – as reported by Polygon – purchasing both the GameTrailers’ name and the site’s massive library of videos. While GameTrailers.com is gone, its video content and YouTube channel will survive. That domain also redirects …
Read More »Nexon opens dev submissions for VR exhibition
Six games will be showcased in the ‘VR, why just be part of the audience?’ display at the Nexon Computer Museum, with first-place winners also invited for workshops in South Korea
Read More »Star Wars Battlefront skipped campaign to hit Force Awakens release
It’s been a huge commercial success, but from the off Star Wars Battlefront has been criticised for its lack of a meaningful single player mode. Now Eurogamer reports that EA Studios boss Patrick Soderlund has admitted in an investor broadcast that DICE opted against developing a single player campaign in …
Read More »A trilogy of Tetris films is on the way
It appears that not one, not two, but three Tetris movies are coming the cinemas in the near future. Deadline reports that the entry in this apparent series is going to cost $80m and is a co China-US production under Threshold Global Studios (Chinese media entrepreneur Bruno Wu and Mortal …
Read More »Katamari Damacy working on Google’s Project Tango AR game
Keita Takahashi, the developer behind cult PlayStation title Katamari Damacy, is working on an augmented reality title. Takahashi is working alongside the rest of his team at studio Funomena on a new game built around Google’s augmented reality technology Project Tango. It’s called Woorld (with two ‘o’s) and is said …
Read More »Coldwood Interactive extends publishing deal with EA for Unravel sequel
Cutesy platformer for PS4, Xbox One and PC announced at E3 2015 and released earlier this year
Read More »EA extends partnership with Unravel studio Coldwood
The next project from Unravel developer Coldwood Interactive is going to be launching courtesy of EA. EVP of EA Studios Patrick Sderlund made this announcement on the publishing giant’s website, though was unable to share any details about this next project from the indie studio. Though the firm has not …
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