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The troubles experienced by Assassin’s Creed: Unity shouldn’t make gamers nervous about next week’s release of The Crew. That’s according to The Crew’s lead game designer Serkan Hasan told The Metropolist that he has total confidence in the stability of the game and its performance”, adding that the team have …
Read More »Develop Studio Sales Charts: Publisher-owned studios knock independent devs out of top ten in November
The most bankable game studios in the world today, measured by retail sales data
Read More »Xbox Japan boss quits
Takashi Sensui is resigning as the head of Xbox Japan following Xbox One’s struggle to take off in the region. Kotaku reports that Famitsu says that the exec, who took charge of Xbox’s Japanese operations in 2006, will remain at Microsoft as manager for the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft’s …
Read More »Xbox Japan GM resigns
But exec will continue working at Microsoft's US HQ
Read More »EA reckons FIFA is increasing the popularity of football in America
The growing appeal of the FIFA series in the US is helping to increase the popularity of an obscure sport called ‘pro soccer’ in the region. We think EA means ‘football’, so we’re going to work on that pretence. Apparently 34 per cent of US gamers who’ve played FIFA have …
Read More »Bungie says it can be difficult to review modern games
Interconnected, heavily socialised games such as Destiny are asking questions of how the press reviews games. That’s according to Bungie COO Pete Parsons who has told Games Industry that the current way in which games are reviewed doesn’t give titles like Destiny a fair crack of the whip. I think …
Read More »Personal development: Grads In Games at Launch 2014
Aardvark Swift reflects on the lessons learned during the Launch conference in Birmingham
Read More »UK industry veteran Tony Bourne has passed away
Tony Bourne, a long-term member of the UK games industry, has passed away. Bourne is best known for founding the SCEE’s QA department in Liverpool back in 1995 and also spent time working at US Gold, Eidos, Wise Monkey and Film Finances. His funeral will be held on Wednesday December …
Read More »Obituary: SCEE’s Tony Bourne
Founder of PlayStation Europe's QA department honoured
Read More »Star Wars Minecraft skins hit Xbox platforms
Microsoft has announced the release of the Star Wars Classic Skin Pack for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One editions of Minecraft. The add-on is available now for $2.99, and includes a laundry list of playable skins for characters involved in the original Star Wars trilogy. Multiple variations of Luke, …
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