Publishing

Location-based title coming to smartphones next year

Ten years ago, when the Forza franchise debuted, developer Turn 10 found that car manufacturers weren’t all that interested in video games. They looked at games as a small licensing revenue thing,” says Dan Greenawalt, creative director at Forza creators Turn 10. Gamers were kids, so these manufacturers didn’t have …

A Season Pass has been announced for Fallout 4, even though Bethesda does not yet know what DLC it will make for the game. We’ve always done a lot of DLC for our games. We love making them and you always ask us for more,” the company said. To reward …

Developer CD Projekt Red has confirmed the investment needed to create RPG hit The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. GameSpot reports that a recently translated financial briefing pegged the cost of development at 306million z?oty – that’s around 53m/$81m. A total of 240 in-house developers spent 3.5 years making the title, …

The musical scores from Ubisoft’s historical stealth-action series Assassin’s Creed are coming to physical formats for the first time later this year. The publisher has teamed up with licensing partnerSumthing Else Music Works to release the soundtracks from all of the core console entries in the franchise so far on …

Cult RPG Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen will be adventuring onto PC early next year, publisher Capcom has announced. The original Dragon’s Dogma was originally launched on PS3 and Xbox 360 back in 2012, with the expanded and enhanced re-release Dark Arisen following in early 2013. Now the game is set …

With a legacy stretching back almost three decades, Metal Gear Solid has shaped and inspired the career paths of some of the industry’s biggest names. From Konami stalwarts and PR veterans to journalists and developers, the innovative work of Hideo Kojima and his team can be seen reflected throughout the …

Graduate and RedLynx project coordinator Julius Fondem on what he learned about making games when studying the craft

Metal. Gear. Solid. Three words that, when combined, would mean complete gibberish, if it weren’t for the existence of one of gaming’s greatest franchises. Instead, utter the title of Konami’s iconic stealth series in certain company and you’re likely to be beset by tales of switching the controller port in …

Scores of developers have reportedly been laid off at Gameloft Tokyo. Gamasutrareports that the layoffs have been made just weeks after the studio released its first game, mobile puzzle RPG Magna Memoria. The game’s poor performance is believed to be the cause of these job cuts. Up to 80 employees …