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343 Industries head Bonnie Ross has stressed the need to run beta tests for future Halo titles, citing Halo 5: Guardians and Halo: The Master Chief Collection as right and wrong ways to go approach development of the FPS franchise. In an interview withEngadget, Ross begins by pointing to the …
Read More »Halo 5: Guardians has multiplayer transactions
Developer 343 Industries has confirmed that microtransactions are included in the multiplayer part of upcoming Xbox One title Halo 5: Guardians. It will be called the Requisition System (REQ). Players will earn REQ points naturally in the game as rewards after each match. These points can then be spent on …
Read More »Fan tries to pre-order Fallout 4 with 2,000 bottle caps
One Fallout super fan has attempted to pre-order the latest entry in Bethesda’s apocalyptic series with a box of bottle caps. Seth, aka Gator Machete – sent Bethesda 2,240 bottle caps, which took the fan seven and a half years to collect. Taking to image hosting site Imgur, he said …
Read More »Microsoft has unannounced Kinect games in the works
Kinect may have been totally absent from Microsoft’s excellent E3 presentation, but the company says that software is still in development for the machine. Xbox’s general manager of global games publishing Shannon Loftis told Polygon that not only is the device still coming to Windows 10, but also that unannounced …
Read More »Fallout Shelter is making more than Candy Crush Saga
Bethesda’s Fallout smartphone experiment is off to an incredibly strong start. Venture Beat reports that the recently release Fallout Shelter has knocked Candy Crush Saga from third place in the top-grossing mobile games charts. King’s title has been more or less a constant presence in third place, earning around $2.55m …
Read More »Yoshida: PS3 asked too many compromises of The Last Guardian
The arrival of PS4 is one of the main reasons why development of The Last Guardian has taken so long to develop. Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida told Kotaku that the team working on the game was struggling to realise its vision on PS3. In fact, he even admitted …
Read More »Sony is helping develop Shenmue 3, says title was most-requested third-party game
The $2.9 million crowdfunding campaign for Shenmue 3 isn’t the only thing driving the project to reality. The long-awaited third entry in the epic Dreamcast franchise was a big surprise at Sony’s E3 press conference earlier this week, where the platform holder revealed the launch of a Kickstarter for the …
Read More »Platinum Games co-developing Star Fox Zero
Bayonetta 2 dev helping Shigeru Miyamoto with series' return
Read More »EA sees a ‘one-tech platform’ future
Exec on the ‘profound’ advantages of having 3,000 employees working on the same game engines
Read More »Gears of War Ultimate Edition set for PC release
The HD upgrade of Xbox 360 title Gears of War is coming to PC, too. That’s according to Gears 4 developer The Coalition studio head Rod Fergusson, speaking at the PC Gaming Show. Gears of War Ultimate Edition was announced for Xbox One at Microsoft’s media briefing. It had been …
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