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Microsoft is offering one of its latest titles for free to celebrate Xbox One’s first birthday. Major Nelson says that Xbox Live Gold subscribers will tomorrow be able to download Insomniac’s Sunset Overdrive for free and play it for as long as they like until it is removed from the …
Read More »Less than two weeks to go until the Games Industry Christmas Quiz
There’s only 11 days left if you want to secure a space at next month’s Games Industry Christmas Quiz. This will be the first time our popular pub quiz has been organised in collaboration with sister publication MCV, and opened to the entire games industry. That means developers won’t only …
Read More »Frontier reassessing some refund requests as Elite: Dangerous outrage persists
David Braben has said that Frontier is re-assessing some of the refund requests it declined in the wake of Elite: Dangerous’ online U-turn. The company earlier this week faced a backlash for dropping the game’s offline mode but yesterday said it would only refund customers who had not yet already …
Read More »Six tips for managing multi-platform game releases
Debbie Bestwick presents the Worms team’s top advice for going cross-platform
Read More »EA unveils the next Need for Speed… and it’s for mobiles and tablets
The name of the next Need for Speed title has been revealed – but it’s the platforms that it is in development for that’s of the most interest. EA has revealed Need for Speed: No Limits, which is coming soon” to smartphones and tablets. Furthermore, it’s being made by Firemonkeys, …
Read More »Xbox One sells 1m in the UK
Xbox One has smashed the one million sales barrier in the UK, MCV can reveal. It’s hit this number after out-selling PlayStation 4 for three weeks in a row, UK retailers have told us. The numbers are based on their GfK Chart-Track reports. The resurgence in Xbox One sales has …
Read More »Disruptor Beam secures $3.2m in funding
Game of Thrones Ascent studio will use funds to develop Star Trek Timelines and licence more IP
Read More »Far Cry 4 complainers out themselves as pirates
Field of view slider unavailable in illegally downloaded versions of the game
Read More »EA: Virtual reality devs must fix motion sickness
CFO says publisher will back pioneering tech if big hurdle overcome
Read More »Far Cry 4 PC complainers accidentally reveal themselves to be pirates
PC gamers complaining about the lack of a specific function in the PC version of Far Cry 4 have been revealed to be pirates. A number of complainants took to the likes of Reddit and Twitter to complain the Ubisoft’s game lacked a FOV (field of view) slider – this …
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