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German games firm Deep Silver will be releasing Atlus and Sega games including Persona 5 in Europe. The Dead Island firm announced today that it had entered in to a publishing agreement to launch some forthcoming Atlus games, such as Persona 5 (pictured) and Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse, as …
Read More »Vicarious Visions developed a Call of Duty prototype set in ancient Rome
Call of Duty: Roman Wars featured horse and elephant riding mechanics, a third-person camera and was built in Unreal Engine
Read More »Blizzard sues Bossland (again) over Overwatch cheat tool
Watchover Tyrant adds features such as a powerful radar, visible enemy health and further otherwise inaccessible information
Read More »Keywords sponsors Develop Awards drinks reception and after-party
Localisation specialist will host official follow-up to celebration of the development sector on Wednesday July 13th
Read More »Wheelchair option coming to Xbox avatars
Microsoft has revealed that Xbox users will soon have the option to have their avatars use a wheelchair. The confirmation came first from Xbox boss Phil Spencer, who replied to a Twitter user to state that the company was working on the idea. Fellow Xbox exec Mike Ybarra then chipped …
Read More »Toxic Games, Fallen Tree and Supergonk among this year’s Greenshoots inductees
Initiative run by Creative England and Microsoft awards British studios with Xbox One dev kits, inclusion in ID@Xbox and up to £50,000 in funding to build their IP
Read More »Sega acquires Amplitude Studios
Sega’s latest purchase is the French developer behind the Endless series, Amplitude. The firm acquired all of the studio’s shares on July 1st in an attempt to improve its PC game portfolio and development capabilities in the US and Europe. Sega has not said how much this set the company …
Read More »Rare picks up ex-Lionhead and FreeStyleGames staff
British outlet Rare has furthered strengthened its workforce by picking up devs from studios struck by layoffs and closures. Ted Timmins will lead up PC design and development at Rare, having formerly lead design atrecently deceased studio Lionhead, as well as Another Place Productions. Among the most recent engineering additions …
Read More »Develop Awards 2016 Partner Spotlight: Keywords Studios
CEO Andrew Day reveals why the games industry's complexity and risk drives the services firm's work
Read More »Blizzard hunting for new Diablo boss
Blizzard is looking for someone to head up its Diablo franchise following the news that game director Josh Mosqueira has left the studio. Mosqueira joined Blizzard in 2011 and took over responsibility for the gothic RPG series two years later, replacing Jay Wilson. Wilson himselfexited Blizzard in June after 10 …
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