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There would have been no Xbox One had Microsoft not greenlit the $1.15bn scheme to fix and replace broken Xbox 360s hit be the Red Ring of Death. In a detailed interview with IGN, as transcribed by Eurogamer, former Xbox man and current EA exec Peter Moore recalled the tough …
Read More »Fallout Shelter Android might be launching in August
The Android version of Bethesda’s hugely popular iOS title Fallout Shelter seems to be coming this August. That’s according to the firm’s marketing boss Pete Hines who responded to a fan on Twitter (below) saying that Fallout Shelter should be coming out ‘next month’. Fallout Shelter was announced on-stage at …
Read More »Nordic Games announces open-world RPG ELEX
Gothic and Risen developer Piranha Bytes is working on a new open-world RPG for next-gen consoles and PC. Nordic Games will serve as the publisher on this ‘collaborative project’, which has a release date of late 2016 or early 2017. The blurb says the game is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi fantasy …
Read More »Comedian Joel Dommett to host Develop Awards 2015
Star of Impractical Jokers UK, Skins and more to lead proceedings on Wednesday, July 15th
Read More »Sony ‘probably’ would have cancelled Last Guardian were it not for the fans
It’s back. It’s heading to PS4. And it could arrive this year. But the cancellation of The Last Guardian was most certainly a possibility. That’s according to Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida who has told the latest issue of Edge, as reported by Videogamer, that it was the vocal …
Read More »The Stamper Brothers to receive Development Legend honour at Develop Awards 2015
Tim and Chris Stamper, co-founders of Rare and with a legacy of over 100 classic games, honoured at big night for games developers in two weeks' time
Read More »MAG Interactive acquires Brighton studio Delinquent
UK developer's debut mobile game Potion Pop
Read More »Australia has banned 220 games in the last four months
Over four times as many games have been banned in Australia in the last four months as were banned in the entirety of the period between 1994-2014. ABC reports that around 220 games have been banned since March, the majority of which are mobile titles. By contrast only 50 titles …
Read More »Microsoft’s HoloLens has explosive launch – literally – as ISS delivery goes up in flames
It probably wasn’t the explosive launch for HoloLens that Microsoft was hoping for. While the augmented reality tech might be yet to make its way to land-bound consumers, NASA’s finest were set to try it out ahead of time thanks to a delivery of the headsets to the International Space …
Read More »Sony launches crowdfunding platform for internal projects
First Flight enables PlayStation staff to gauge interest in new ideas
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