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We were eager to draw attention to the issue of grey PC game code selling this week because what started as a mild nuisance is quickly escalating into a major problem for the industry. There are hundreds of these code stripping stores now. Visit one of the numerous digital price …
Read More »Indie god game Maia makes more than $1m
Developer plans to open new company Machine Studios; Considering work on new project
Read More »Clothing brand Diesel going legal on Dieselstörmers
The developer of Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams has said it will resist a legal challenge from clothing firm Diesel. Eurogamer reports that the Italian fashion brand believes that the name of Black Forest’s upcoming game Dieselstormers will means there’s a "likelihood of confusion" between the two. As incredulous as that …
Read More »VIDEO: Assassin’s Creed Unity short introduces new female character Elise
Keen to redress the criticism levelled at it last month, Ubisoft has released details of a female central character” who features in Assassin’s Creed: Unity. A new trailer shows Arno racing against time and through a dense and chaotic central Paris in order to prevent the beheading of Elise, a …
Read More »‘The killer Oculus Rift app could come from anyone’: The VR firm on making games with the DK2
Michael Antonov discusses what the changes to the new dev kit and SDK mean for developers
Read More »No EA Access on PSN as it’s not good value, Sony says
The EA Access subscription service is an Xbox One exclusive because Sony doesn’t believe it offers good value to consumers. That’s according to a Sony America spokesperson, who told Game Informer: We evaluated the EA Access subscription offering and decided that it does not bring the kind of value PlayStation …
Read More »The Story of Video Games in 10 titles
You could argue that every game is of some sort of historical significance, of course. The question really is how do you whittle down the list. Can you really have a list of the games that have defined our medium without the inspirational Half-Life? That skips over the technologically liberating …
Read More »LittleBigPlanet 3 gets release date in America
Sony has announced that its latest LittleBigPlanet game is to hit stores on November 18th in America. No date has been set for the UK yet, but assuming that the above isn’t a worldwide release, LittleBigPlanet 3 might well be coming to this side of the Atlantic on Friday November …
Read More »EA reveals subscription EA Access program for Xbox One
Xbox One owners will soon be able to access an EA subscription service. EA Access costs $4.99 per month. For that members get unlimited access to select titles in what is being called The Vault – which currently contains FIFA 14, Battlefield 4, Madden NFL 25 and Peggle 2 – …
Read More »Square Enix CTO quits
Yoshihisa Hashimoto leaves after five years at Final Fantasy developer and publisher
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