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Wednesday’s launch of Assassin’s Creed III looks set to be one of the biggest game launches of 2012 – and, MCV reckons – possibly of all time in the UK. Ubisoft has revealed that over 900 stores will open their doors just before midnight tomorrow (Tuesday October 30th) across GAME, …
Read More »Bleszinski offers to help Capcom "fix" Resident Evil
Former Epic games designer and development star Cliff Bleszinski has expressed a desire to work on future Resident Evil titles. Hey, Capcom. Call me. We can fix Resident Evil. Together. :-),” he said on Twitter over the weekend. By fix”, of course, Cliffy B is referencing the lukewarm critical reception …
Read More »Microsoft greenlights 18-rated games for Windows 8
Mature content to make way onto Windows Store in December
Read More »Ngmoco CEO Neil Young steps down
Co-founder and CEO Neil Young has left his role at mobile games developer Ngmoco, owner DeNA has announced. Former head of studios Clive Downie has been appointed as the new CEO. Downie previously spent over 15 years at EA where he reached the positions of VP of marketing. Fellow co-founder …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed III breaks Ubisoft’s pre-order records
Upcoming historical action romp Assassin’s Creed III has become the most pre-ordered game in Ubisoft history. The game, due out next week on October Wednesday 31st, has already doubled the pre-order levels of its predecessor Assassin’s Creed Revelations. Assassin’s Creed III is one of the most anticipated games of the …
Read More »How the metrics buried in today’s games will shape the games of tomorrow
When a gamer sits down to play a game like Sleeping Dogs it’s simply a slice of fun. But for a small team in Square Enix’s Wimbledon office it’s a science experiment. That’s because Sleeping Dogs is one example of a game that uses anonymous metrics to learn from how …
Read More »Phil Harrison to give first public address as Xbox exec at LGC
Xbox exec joins speakers from Twitter, Google, EA, Sega and Disney attending next month's conference
Read More »SimCity release date pushed back to March
EA has announced that the reboot to its SimCity franchise will arrive on 8th March, 2013. This is a slight delay from the February release window that had been announced earlier. Unlike the delays for Medal of Honor: Warfighter and Need for Speed: Most Wanted, which are for India only, …
Read More »GAME OF THE DAY: The Unfinished Swan
We’re going to be clear about this from the off – not everyone is going to like The Unfinished Swan. You can finish the game in one sitting, or around two hours. Although that’s at the expense of exploration, of course. And the plot is, how shall we say, slightly …
Read More »EA dates its new SimCity
The latest reinvention of the SimCity franchise has been given a release date on PC and Mac. SimCity, as EA is calling it, will be released on March 8th. The game is powered by GlassBox which EA describes as the most complex simulation engine in its class”. SimCity will engage …
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