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After the barrage of sad tales about depression caused by indies turning into millionaires overnight, allow us to raise your spirits with a story about the liberating and energizing effects of complete commercial failure.” That’s the opening to an update from Belgium-based developer Tale of Tales, which having released its …
Read More »Hidden Path cancels Early Access game Windborne
Studio unable to raise extra funds to complete title; No refunds for players
Read More »Hidden Path delists, halts development of Steam Early Access title Windborne
Hidden Path Entertainment has halted development of its Early Access release Windborne, delisting the game from Steam as a result. Gamasutrahas word on a recent community update by Hidden Path that states the studio has run out of funding to develop the title – adding that the company has explored …
Read More »No Man’s Sky launching on PC and PS4 simultaneously
It might’ve been a staple of Sony’s E3 conferences for the past two years, but expansive sci-fi title No Man’s Sky has now been confirmed for PC. Taking the stage at the PC Gaming Show at E3, Hello Games founder Sean Murray to answer a long-running question over whether the …
Read More »Castle Crashers Remastered launching on Xbox One this summer, PC to follow
Indie studio The Behemoth has announced its XBLA hit Castle Crashers will receive a remastered release for Xbox One and PC. According to a post on Behemoth’s blog, Castle Crashers Remastered will launch as a timed-exclusive for Xbox One this summer and arrive on PC via Steam sometime after that. …
Read More »VIDEO – SQUARE ENIX: Deus Ex Mankind Divided gameplay footage shown, confirmed for early 2016 release date
The first gameplay footage of the upcoming Deus Ex Mankind Divided was shown at Square Enix’s E3 media briefing. In addition, developer Eids Montreal confirmed that the game would be coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC in ‘early’ 2016. Eidos Montreal also emphasised that choices will have more an …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers: June 7-13
Early Access release Ark: Survival Evolved has come out on top of Steam’s best selling products for the second week in a row. The dinosaur-themed game beat out Grand Theft Auto V, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and a slew of games on discount for Steam’s summer sale to take …
Read More »Greenlight dev pulls game and compares Steam community to poo
The developer of DarkBase 01 has pulled his game from Valve’s Steam service and left in its wake a message attacking the games community. As spotted by Kotaku, developer Solar Storm’s Greenlight title had been the subject of some heavy criticism from users of the service. Yesterday the game’s Steam …
Read More »Steam passes 10m concurrent users
Steam hosted more than ten million concurrent users for the first time in its history yesterday. Valve’s digital store smashed its previous record of 9.5m set just last month. The rush of new users has been spurred on by the latest summer sale on the marketplace that has seen deep …
Read More »More money is spent on games than movies and music combined, says IHS
Stat trackers IHS has shown its latest market data ahead of next week’s E3 – revealing that $92bn will be spent on games this year. That is higher than music ($18bn) and movies ($62bn) combined. The latest estimates from the firm also reveals that 80 per cent of this revenue …
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