Publishing

New studio launched with Double Dragon Neon director Sean Velasco at the helm

Server issues lead retailer to temporarily halt digital sales

The team at SimCity developer Maxis has pledged that they won’t rest until the game is working correctly. At the time of writing connection problems are still blighting players in North America and Australia, and with the UK release just hours away gamers are rightly concerned about their chances of …

In the wake of an anti-same-sex marriage act in the US, publisher takes on hate in games

A Kinect game being overseen by Pirates of the Carribean director Gore Verbinski has been abandoned. Verbinski was collaborating with Blind Wink Games on Matter, which was to be released via Xbox Live Arcade with Kinect as the primary focus of its gameplay. However, it now appears that Microsoft Studios …

An event discussing LGBT issues in video gaming called EA Full Spectrum is taking place today in New York. EA Full Spectrum will bring together leaders from the LGBT and videogame community to talk about the state of hate in videogames, the origins of homophobia in games, the development of …

Bravo, Ubisoft, bravo. The publisher has issued a quite wonderful reply to the accusations thrown at it by PETA earlier this week. The animal rights group lashed out at the SEO-friendly Assassin’s Creed IV on Tuesday for, what it believes is, the glorification” of whaling. (Although we don’t think there …

Joe Ybarra ditches publishers and plans Kickstarter for space strategy title

Indie hit could wind up on Sony consoles after end of Microsoft exclusivity deal

Blake Jorgensen backtracks on previous comments that business model would become standard