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Eidos Montreal has let go of a significant number of development staff just one week after shipping its stealth action reboot Thief. Thief was met with mixed reviews when it arrived last week. The studio’s parent company Square Enix today confirmed toKotakuthat more than 20 staff have been made redundant. …
Read More »Funcom’s Q4 revenues drop $3.5m year-on-year
Weak sales, increased competition and deferred billings for The Secret World result in tough Christmas for MMO firm
Read More »Project Spark beta arrives on Xbox One
Microsoft’s beta for the ambitious Project Spark is now available on Xbox One. The beta first arrived on Windows 8.1 back in December and has attracted over 250,000 users. Project Spark lets gamers (or should that be designers?) to create a wide assortment of games, offering what is being tipped …
Read More »Raiden IV: Overkill slated for Western release on PS3
Moss-developed Japanese shmup Raiden IV is getting a digital release on PS3 in the West. The game was previously published by UFO Interactive on Xbox 360 in 2009 (and was released on XBLA by Moss itself) but now the company is bringing a revamped ‘Overkill’ version – complete with new …
Read More »GAME offers Amazing Spider-Man 2 pre-order DLC bonus
GAME is offering a DLC pre-order bonus with The Amazing Spider-Man 2 pre-orders. Customers who order Activion’s latest Spider-Man outing will receive the Web Threads Suit Pack DLC bundle, which includes four additional in-game outfits for the web slinger himself. These include the Iron, Cosmic, Noir and Venom-inspired Spider-Man suits …
Read More »PS4 sales surpass six million
100 million pictures and videos shared by players through social networking sites
Read More »Watch Dogs product manager promises ‘big week’ for IP
There’s now even more evidence that fresh Watch Dogs news – and quite possibly a release date – will be announced this week. The game’s product manager David Thriault yesterday sent a tweet containing the hashtags ‘watchdogs’ and ‘bigweek’. This comes after more evidence recently that a release date is …
Read More »Castlevania director accuses reviewers of "lacking honesty"
One of the creators of Konami’s Castelvania: Lords of Shadow 2 has lashed out at some of the game’s reviews. OXM has had a go at translating a piece on Eurogamer Spain in which game director Enric Alvarez says that the specialised gaming press [lacks] professionalism". Added Alvarez: "[You can …
Read More »3D Realms acquisition detailed as SDN Invest swoops in
It has been confirmed that Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein developer 3D Realms has been acquired by Danish investment firm SDN Invest, SDN in the part-owner and main investor in Danish Rise of the Triad developer Interceptor Entertainment, whose chairman Mike Nielsen (also SDN’s founder and former Coolshop CEO) has now …
Read More »Mentors wanted: Microsoft Ventures’ seeking support for Accelerator start-ups
London Accelerator firms Skara and Gateway Interactive hoping to learn best business practices from industry experts
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