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Ubisoft is the latest publisher to head to Guildford to offer work to Lionhead staff. Reflections, which most recently worked on The Division, will visit the White House Pub on Thursday, March 17th from 3pm. Xbox-owned Lionhead faces closure following the cancellation of Fable Legends. Reflections staff says they will …
Read More »Splash Damage is working on Gears of War 4’s multiplayer
London developer Splash Damage is once again back in the Gears of War fold, developer The Coalition has confirmed. Splash Damage had a hand in the recent Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, having previously worked on the likes of Return to Castle Wolfenstein and its own online shooter Brink. Now …
Read More »Microsoft could yet bring digital game sharing to Xbox One
One of the features lost in Microsoft’s big Xbox One u-turn in 2013 could yet be revisited. Shortly after the Xbox One’s E3 2013 reveal the platform holder was forced to abandon much of the digital architecture it had designed for the console, amid a ferocious consumer backlash that still …
Read More »Five things other publishers can learn from The Division
Ubisoft’s The Division is the biggest Q1 game ever. MCV estimates that over 300,000 copies of the game were sold in a week (digital and physical), making it a massive new IP launch, up there with Watch Dogs and Destiny. We’ve written countless articles about games that got their launches …
Read More »Microsoft opens doors to Xbox-PlayStation cross-platform multiplayer
Well isn’t Microsoft just full of surprises. Having set parts of the fandom alight with its recent comments about the marriage of Xbox and PC, Microsoft has now said that it is fully embracing cross-platform online multiplayer. But we’re not just talking between Xbox and PC – Microsoft is happy …
Read More »NCSoft’s Carbine Studios axes nearly half of its workforce
The developer behind MMO Wildstar is confirmed significant job losses at its studio. NCSoft’s Carbine Studios, which was established to develop and run Wildstar, has according to Polygon chopped over 70 jobs, amounting to around 40 per cent of its workforce. Those who remain have also been told that further …
Read More »Plants vs Zombies card collecting spinoff incoming
EA’s Plants vs Zombies series is branching out into a third genre. Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes follows the template laid down by other card battlers by allowing players to amass a team of heroes and fending off against rival decks. Old characters will also be joined by a new cast. …
Read More »ESA hits back at E3 critics, but is considering inviting consumers
A defiant ESA, the organiser of E3, says the LA expo is ‘essential and critical’ to the games industry. Its comments come after Activision joined EA in not renewing its E3 booth for 2016. The two businesses follow the likes of Sega, Bandai Namco and Disney in no-longer booking space …
Read More »Tim Sweeney’s five steps to fixing Microsoft’s UWP
“Microsoft has no right to impose its certification regime on software obtained outside of its store”
Read More »Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture grabs 10 BAFTA nominations
The Chinese Room’s 2015 PS4 exclusive Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is leading the charge in the 2016 British Academy Games Awards. The game has won itself an impressive ten nominations, with Sam Barlow’s Her Story and CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt both receiving seven. Five nominations …
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