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While the idea of a developer deliberately breaking a game as an act of vengeance is a sexy one, it looks as if the truth behind yesterday’s Spintires fiasco is entirely less dramatic. It was claimed yesterday that Spintires creator Pavel Zagrebennyj had inserted a ‘timebomb’ bug into existing copies …
Read More »Steam introduces dynamic pricing on bundles
Online PC digital retail giant Steam is changing up how its pricing for bundles works. According to official documentation sent from Steam to developers – obtained by PCGamesN – the retailer is automatically giving buyers a discount on bundle pricing if consumers already own some of the games in a …
Read More »Discover the Windows 10 features every game developer should know
Intel Developer Blog: Learn how Microsoft's latest OS has been geared towards devs
Read More »EGL hosts first CoD World League Challenger LAN this weekend
The European Gaming League will host the first European LAN for Call of Duty’s World League Challenger Division this weekend in London. The Truman Brewery is set to become a busy place for gaming enthusiasts as PC Gamer takes over the other half of the building for their Weekender expo …
Read More »Hotline Miami dev Dennaton blesses fan spin-off for release
Midnight Animal is a heavily altered version of the original top-down neon-drenched shooter
Read More »Trine dev Frozenbyte links popularity to price for new game
Higher community score in demo for Shadwen means a lower release price for the full title
Read More »Digital Rise of the Tomb Raider sales three times that of Xbox One
It appears that the PC release of Rise of the Tomb Raider had a strong debut. SuperData’s January digital games market report claims that Lara Croft’s latest adventure sold three times as many copies on PC as it did digitally on Xbox One in its first month. This obviously precludes …
Read More »Valve increases CS:GO Major prize pools to $1m
The base pool for all future CS:GO Major tournaments has been raised from $250,000 to $1m thanks to Valve’s increased investment in eSports. Beginning with next month’s MLG Columbus event, every Valve-sponsored Major event will have the increased prize pool, offering $500,000 to the winners of each competition. There are …
Read More »After 26 years in development, Unreal World arrives this week
Move aside, Duke Nukem Forever – there’s a new contender for the longest-developed game of all time. Unreal World has finally come to Steam, after nearly three decades in development. That’s right – the sandbox RPG has been worked on for 26 years by a team of two people. Head …
Read More »Game in development for 26 years comes to Steam
Unreal World started life as a shareware ASCII RPG in 1990
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