Publishing

Eidos life president and Fighting Fantasy co-creator gets the rapid-fire question treatment

Current tech not up to scratch, but Newell hopeful as hardware improves

The sequel to soul-crushingly hard RPG Dark Souls was announced at the Video Game Awards. Dark Souls 2 will be developed by From Software and publisher Namco Bandai has promised that it will offer fans exactly the kind of demanding challenges and never-ending struggle that became the hallmark of this …

Few game IPs command as loyal a following as Metal Gear Solid – and Konami knows this all too well. So when a trailer for a supposedly new IP was premiered at the VGAs last week, whomever was behind it knew that eagle-eyed gamers would do the rest. And what …

Petroglyph to continue working on new titles through 2014

Youth protection regulations mean 18+ rated games can only be sold between 11pm and 3am

First call for applications expected to be made as soon as April next year

Longbow Research’s James Hardiman believes that the Wii U has achieved just 1.2 software attach ratio in the US. This means that for every console sold consumers bought an average of 1.2 games. Another way of looking at it is that only one in five Wii U buyers bought an …

The next outing in the acclaimed BioShock series won’t be arriving the February as planned. Instead, the hotly anticipated Irrational Games project will hit shelves on March 26th – exactly one month later than its planned February 26th release. Irrational boss Ken Levine told the press at a recent preview …

Eurocom, the British developer behind the latest James Bond game, has gone into administration. The developer, based in Derby, made150 redundancies last monthfollowing a number of cancelled console projects. Its remaining 50 staff were told this morning that they had been laid off. Eurocom issued a statement toEurogamerthis afternoon: Today …