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The former boss of Sony Online Entertainment has announced the formation of a new studio and launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for an RPG. The studio, which is based in California, is called Pixelmage Games. Its first title, should it be funded, is pixel art RPG Hero’s Song. It’s looking …
Read More »IGDA board of members vote opens
Two director seats available in this year’s election
Read More »Creative England and Imaginarium Studios unite to form new publisher
Up to 10 releases expected within first 12 months from partnership between investment organisation and digital studio co-founded by actor Andy Serkis
Read More »Crytek launches VR First initiative to encourage grassroots virtual reality development
Studio to offer full source code access to CryEngine for free to students and researchers
Read More »Xbox 360 disc scratching case makes it all the way to the US Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court will now decide whether Microsoft will face a class-action lawsuit over allegations that the Xbox 360 had a disc-scratching fault. The Xbox 360 had its fair share of technical problems, not least of which was the infamous Red Ring of Death – a fault that ultimately …
Read More »PlayStation Plus subscribers given a free day as outage apology
Sony has offered PlayStation Plus subscribers a one-day extension as an apology for a network outage earlier this month. PSN went down for around ten hours on January 4th with most services forced completely offline. The breakage was or particular irritation to Destiny players as that was the final day …
Read More »HoloLens field of view ‘like standing 2ft away from a 15" monitor’
Microsoft has revealed a few more details about its still in-development augmented reality headset HoloLens. Neowin grabbed the information from a Tel Aviv tech event attended by Microsoft’s technical evangelist Bruce Harris. Perhaps the most notable detail is that concerning the device’s field of view. It was revealed last July …
Read More »Microsoft HoloLens features native support for any Windows 10 app
Further details released about AR hardware include battery life, wireless functionality and display capability
Read More »Rise of the Tomb Raider director joins Infinity Ward
The director of Rise of the Tomb Raider has joined Call of Duty studio Infinity Ward. Brian Horton was game director at Crystal Dynamics for just over a year, having previously served as senior art director for six and a half years – including on the original self-titled Tomb Raider …
Read More »360 Studios targets $2.5 million in funding
MMA Federation creator has already snagged $1.5 million for development of mobile games
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