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We sincerely regret this choice.” Those were the words of a Deep Silver rep in January of this year following the backlash that greeted its unveiling of the Dead Island Riptide Zombie Bait Edition. For those who don’t remember, the SKU comes bundled with a bust of a dismembered female …

New Cloud Imperium Games studio to house up to 20 staff

Dead Space 3, Fable: The Journey, Resident Evil 6 – the industry isn’t short of big brands that have distanced themselves from their heritage in an attempt to reach a larger audience. Next on the list could be Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Ubisoft Toronto boss Jade Raymond has said that while …

Former THQ VP to head live game operations for online publisher

Gearbox Software has emerged as the mystery party that outbid the rest for the acquisition of the Homeworld franchise at THQ’s auction. The winning $1.35m bid by the Borderlands developer won’t become official until next month if and when it receives court approval. "Gearbox Software has prevailed as the highest …

Renegade Kid dev Jools Watsham questions Steam Greenlight voting and lack of feedback from Valve

EA is taking SimCity offline – deliberately this time. The game will go offline for around two hours from 9pm tonight in order for dozens of fixes to be applied for many of the issues that have been irking players since launch. Here are the changes in full, as posted …

STEM-focused program gives kids a taste of game development

Survival horror to be first title from Shinji Mikami's studio Tango Gameworks

Epic takes a look at the teams that gave it their all at the MSUL 2013 development contest