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Despite smashing its Kickstarter target in October of last year, the team behind platform title Mighty No 9 has decided to ask for yet more crowdsourced funding. The Keiji Inafune title last year raised $3,845,170 on Kickstarter, obliterating its $900k goal and hitting all of its stretch goals. Yet now …
Read More »Windows version of Kinect v2 priced at £159.99
A Microsoft listing for the PC compatible version of Kinect suggests the peripheral will have a very high RRP. The UK store currently lists the device for 159.99, with the US store pricing it at $199.99. This SKU is specifically designed to run with the Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0 …
Read More »Doom ‘needs to prove itself all over again’
Bethesda is aware that players will need to be convinced that the Doom IP remains as relevant today as it was ten years ago. The IP’s latest resurrection is expected to be detailed later this month, but with the last game in series being 2004’s Doom 3, Bethesda’s VP of …
Read More »Koch Media insists it is not for sale
Deep Silver owner Koch Media has dismissed reports that it is on the hunt for a buyer. Handelsblatt reported over the weekend that Koch had enlisted the services of UBS to find a buyer for the publisher. However, in an unusual move Koch took to Twitter to affirm its position. …
Read More »Develop Awards 2014 – The Finalists: Creative Contribution: Audio
The sound masters bringing immersive audio to the biggest games
Read More »Publisher insisted on Killer is Dead’s gigolo missions, Suda 51 says
Developer Suda 51 has said that the inclusion of the controversial ‘gigolo missions’ in his 2013 title Killer is Dead was demanded by publisher Kadokawa Shoten. The missions saw players trying to convince women to have sex with them by handing over gifts. Those missions were actually supposed to be …
Read More »‘Huge proportion’ of PS4 owners haven’t played The Last of Us, says Sony
A shift in the market in PlayStation’s favour means that a significant number of PS4 owners have yet to play The Last of Us. That’s according to Sony, who made the discovery after looking through PSN data, suggesting that a high number of PS4 owners have migrated from other platforms …
Read More »Develop Awards 2014 – The Finalists: Services
A rundown of the companies offering key services for game developers across the globe
Read More »Plague Inc receiving Dawn of the Planet of the Apes expansion
Smartphone and PC strategy title Plague Inc has nabbed a big-time licensing tie-up with 20th Century Fox’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. An upcoming Simian Flu expansion offers a number of gameplay alterations, with players controlling communities of intelligent apes at the same time as guiding the human …
Read More »Dovetail Games to expand beyond Train Simulator with fishing sim
Dovetail Games, the creator of Train Simulator, is to expand into new segments with a fishing simulation title. Former EA execs Rob O’Farrell and Chris Roberts are leading the development of Dovetail Games Fishing, which will allow budding fishermen to utilise a ‘Total Cast Control’ mechanism to find, attract, catch …
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