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A major feature of the Xbox One touted before the console’s launch in 2013 has come to fruition. Before Microsoft’s console was released, the company revealed that every retail machine would double as a dev kit, opening the doors for budding game creators to build for the platform. However, the …
Read More »Sword Coast Legends studio N-Space closes after 21 years
Veteran console and PC studio N-Space has shut its doors after 21 years in the development business. The American developer was founded in 1994 by Erick S Dyke, Dan O’Leary, and Sean Purcell, and went on to create GameCube shooter Geist, as well as multiple Call of Duty adaptations for …
Read More »Three games, a movie, an anime TV show, Sean Bean, Audi, and Florence and the Machine… Square Enix sets up major Final Fantasy relaunch
Square Enix last night revealed ambitious plans to rejuvenate its ageing Final Fantasy series with its next game. Final Fantasy XV will debut on consoles on September 30th this year, the company announced during a star-studded conference last night. And the event was a significant statement of intent for the …
Read More »Universal Windows Platform adds support for mods and Steamworks
Developer-approved alterations to game code permitted, with custom overlays, V-Sync and G-Sync also implemented
Read More »Dev pulls Wii U game in response to controversial Nintendo firing
Necrosoft Games' Brandon Sheffield slams Nintendo for cutting ties with product marketing specialist Alison Rapp 'because GamerGate didn't like her'
Read More »Microsoft (finally) turns every Xbox One into a dev kit today
Early preview build of Dev Mode out now, with full release arriving in summer
Read More »Mass Effect Andromeda could paint humanity as the aggressive coloniser
An EA survey has suggested that Mass Effect Andromeda might take a somewhat surprising narrative route. Mass Effect: Andromeda takes players to the Andromeda galaxy, far beyond the Milky Way, where players will lead the fight for a new home in hostile territory — where WE are the aliens — …
Read More »NextGen Skills Academy launches Get Into Games programme
Three-day event aimed at introducing teenagers to aspects of the development industry joins London Games Festival line-up
Read More »Yet more rumours point to more powerful PS4
Another report claiming that Sony has a new, more powerful version of the PS4 in the works has emerged online. The Wall Street Journal claims that Sony is indeed planning a more powerful version of its console that is designed to handle higher-end game experiences” and VR. This follows identical …
Read More »Blizzard to remove sexualised Tracer pose, provoking predictable outcry
Subsets of the games community are crying ‘censorship’ once again after Blizzard has said it will pull sexually exploitative Overwatch artwork. The pose in question depicts Tracer looking over her shoulder at the viewer, displaying her lycra-clad behind. It’s a position that nearly every female game or superhero movie star …
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