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Spanish based owner Dorna will use Milestone's game with PS4 exclusivity
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Will Ubisoft bring its ‘live’ success to Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry 5 in 2017?
Ubisoft caused quite a stir last year when it told MCV its Week One sales were "important" but "not critical" to the company’s ongoing success. Indeed, after a disappointing month at retail during November, the comments of its VP of live operations Anne Blondel couldn’t have been timelier. After all, …
Read More »Ukie unveil manifesto to ‘Power Up the UK games industry’
Industry body presents ten recommendations for a successful UK games industry
Read More »Jagex joins up with Improbable to use SpatialOS
Runescape developer will use the technology for future projects
Read More »Discord hits 45 million users
Two years after its inception, voice and text chat app Discord has announced that it has now reached 45m users. Mashable reports that concurrent users have hit a peak 4m, with daily active users standing at a massive 8.9m. As of July 2016 Discord had only 11m users, meaning that …
Read More »Far Cry 5 and The Crew 2 confirmed
Ubisoft has revealed two big sequels will arrive before March 2018. Far Cry 5 and The Crew 2 have both been name dropped by the company, as well as confirmation that a new Assassin’s Creed game will arrive in the same time frame – presumably called Origins and set in …
Read More »Improbable and Jagex to bring SpatialOS to future game projects
Hot off the back of securing $500m of investment from Softbank, UK developer Improbable has just secured its most high profile partner yet in the form of Jagex. The two UK companies have today announced a technology partnership that will see the Runescape developer use Improbable’s SpatialOS tech in a …
Read More »EA’s Madden NFL series moves to Frostbite engine
The series is the one of the last regular EA releases to be moved on to DICE's engine
Read More »PaRappa the Rapper and Gitaroo Man creators team up
A rhythm action dream team is working on a brand new mystery project. PaRappa the Rapper creator Masaya Matsuura and Gitaroo Man creator Keiichi Yano have joined forces for a new game currently going under the glorious name of Project Rap Rabbit. Details are thin on the ground, although there …
Read More »Halo 5 exec producer becomes 343i studio head
Chris Lee takes the reigns as 343i confirm no Halo 6 at E3
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