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Battlefield 4 arrives on 29th October, a post on Xbox.com has inadvertently revealed. The date was listed in an Xbox.com blog post and then quickly removed, but it was up just long enough for a few eagle-eyed observers to pick up. All Games Beta has published a screenshot of the …
Read More »Free-to-play developer Supercell worth $800m
Value calculated from latest $100m-to-$150m funding round
Read More »Jade Raymond’s Splinter Sell
It may have sold 22m units across the world, but Ubisoft feels Splinter Cell should be doing even better. And so it’s tasked one of the masterminds behind Assassin’s Creed to lead a revolution for the spy franchise.MCV speaks to Jade Raymond… One of my first jobs in the games …
Read More »Retail hails Battlefield 4 reveal, as Q4 war heats up
Retailers are braced for a blockbuster end to 2013 now that Battlefield 4 has joined the fray. Leading specialists and supermarkets have told MCV that they have huge expectations for the new shooter, following the long-tail success of Battlefield 3. The original title shifted well over 1.5m units in the …
Read More »Nicholas, Lloyd, Slater join Ashes Cricket 2013 commentary team
Mark Nicholas, David Lloyd and Michael Slater will provide commentary for Ashes Cricket 2013, publisher 505 Games has announced. Nicholas, who serves as a television presenter n both the UK and Australia, will be the lead commentator, with Ex-England coach Lloyd and former Aussie opening batsman Slater providing expert inputs. …
Read More »VIDEO: First official trailer for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Konami has released a five-minute trailer for the freshly announced Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. The game, which had been previously announced under two separate guises in the form of MGS: Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain, is due out on PS3 and Xbox 360 later this year. …
Read More »Positioning SimCity as an MMO would’ve justified always-online: EA
In a bid to justify the always-online design of SimCity, EA Labels president Frank Gibeau has said that the game has always had an MMO feel to it, and that positioning it as an MMO would have made the always-online nature of the game easier for players to get behind. …
Read More »GDC 13: Nintendo supports HTML5 with web framework for Wii U
New development environment to support app creation using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS
Read More »GDC 13: Unreal Engine 3 powers up Ninja Gaiden Z
Keiji Inafune to work in collaboration with Team Ninja on upcoming title
Read More »Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain announced for PS3, Xbox 360
Hideo Kojima revealed at his GDC presentation earlier today that The Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes are the same game – Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. Kojima arrived at his GDC presentation with his face bandaged up, revealing what we already knew – that The Phantom Pain was …
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