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Valve and Capcom will look to create some zombie synergy with the announcement of a content crossover between Left 4 Dead 2 and Resident Evil 6. The promotion will merge the two worlds together, adding the four survivors from Left 4 Dead 2 to Resident Evil 6’s Mercenaries No Mercy …
Read More »Dead Space 3, Crysis 3 US retail sales for February revealed
We now have specific sales figures to go with EA’s relative dominance last month at US retail. Info provided to Gamespot, following NPD’s February 2013 report, revealed chart topper Dead Space 3 sold 605k units for the month. The game was on top of the UK weekly software charts in …
Read More »Riccitiello’s departure "all comes down to accountability"
Outgoing EA CEO John Riccitiello has said that accountability” is the cause behind his reason to quit the publisher. Not accountability for the SimCity fiasco, of course – which is already becoming the accepted narrative in some circles – but accountability for the company’s upcoming financial reports, which will see …
Read More »EA increases SimCity server capacity by 400%
City-building title garners one million in sales as server troubles begin to dissipate
Read More »24-year old cancer victim lives on in Creative Assembly’s Total War: War 2
Creative Assembly’s community manager Craig Paycock has paid tribute to a cancer victim who will now forever be remembered as a star of upcoming game Total War: Rome 2. Last summer a 24-year-old James visited the studio as part of a Special Day initiative organised by charity Willow Foundation, which …
Read More »University of New Orleans offers game dev courses
Computer science department offers new program to boost recruitment
Read More »The top five game job vacancies (15.03.13)
This week we look over a quintet of vacancies at UK triple-A game development studios and tech giants
Read More »Microsoft Surface sales pegged at just 1.5m – report
Just 1.5m Surface tablets have been sold since the hardware’s launch in October, according to reports. Bloomberg claims to have word from insiders who reckon that sales of the entry-level Surface RT version stand at just over a million units while sales of the Surface Pro, which was released last …
Read More »Patrice Désilets returns to Ubisoft
Original Assassin's Creed creative director returns to Ubisoft after acquisition from THQ
Read More »Games Workshop: seven new video games deals, and more to come
Iconic tabletop gaming firm Games Workshop has a new strategy for licensing its IP to the games business. It has signed up seven new games development partners in the last nine months, each of them working on various different games, inspired by the Warhammer fantasy medieval brand, the fantasy sci-fi …
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