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Read More »Deep Silver confirms next-gen Metro release
Metro Redux is real and in the works for the latest generation of consoles, publisher Deep Silver has confirmed. Rumour of the franchise’s jump to next-gen broke yesterday, when a pair of images mentioning the Metro Redux SKU for PS4, Xbox One and PC hit the web. Deep Silver has …
Read More »Valve VR boss Abrash joins Oculus
Valve’s Michael Abrash has joined Oculus after three and a half years with the company. He has been appointed by Oculus as chief scientist just days after the firm was bought by Facebook for $2 billion. Abrash had been leading Valve’s own foray into virtual reality development but said the …
Read More »Origin ditches physical PC game sales; Will affect just 1% of users
EA is to stop selling physical PC games through Origin. Yes, EA sold physical PC games through Origin. The new policy comes into effect this Friday (April 4th). In a statement confirming the news, it said that just one per cent of its customer based buys physical versions of its …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: March 23-29
A 75 per cent discount on Batman: Arkham Origins has the game ahead of the rest on the latest Steam top ten sales chart. WB’s licensed title finished ahead of DayZ for the top spot over the past week on Valve’s digital distribution hub. South Park: The Stick of Truth …
Read More »Bleszinski: Cancelling Minecraft on Oculus makes Notch look like a pouty kid
Famed developer Cliff Bleszinski has criticised Markus Persson for his decision to pull the plug on the Oculus Rift version of Minecraft. Persson announced the cancellation of the project just moments after news of the Facebook acquisition of Oculus was announced, saying: I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me …
Read More »GamesGrabr reveals new ecommerce platform for publishers
Gaming social network GamesGrabr is offering a new service designed to help sell video games. Feature Collections allows developers, businesses and even influential bloggers to promote their ‘collections’ and offer a means for consumers to then buy them. The new promotion is being pushed under the ‘cool collections to follow’ …
Read More »Evaluating features for Games as a Service
Xing Wang, MIT alumni and former Zynga executive producer, discusses the careful decisions that need to be made when adding features to your long-tail games
Read More »Warner Bros shines in quiet month: the February charts
February is not traditionally a big sales month, but this year was even quieter than usual. Where in 2013 there was a 1.9m decline in month-on-month sales between January and February, this decrease was to the tune of 16.4m in 2014. This is due to the lack of releases on …
Read More »Battlefield 4 Naval Strike DLC now delayed on Xbox One
DICE has followed news of a delay to Battlefield 4’s Naval Strike DLC on PC by announcing that it will also be late to Xbox One. The studio says that issues in the animation system that hinder players from engaging targets in set circumstances using popular weapon configurations” is the …
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