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Vince Zampella and Jason West’s Respawn Entertainment has yet to decide exactly what its first game for publisher EA will be. The thing everybody needs to remember is they were starting at absolute zero,” EA Partners boss David DeMartini told Eurogamer. This is two guys who really know what they’re …
Read More »Microsoft: ‘PC is critical to us’
Microsoft would never dream of exiting the PC games space. That’s the message from European Xbox boss Chris Lewis, following the announcements of Microsoft Flight and Age of Empires Online at Gamescom. Early last year, Microsoft closed PC developers Ensemble (creators of Age of Empires) and ACES (the studio behind …
Read More »Sony rallies to RTW redundancies
SCEE joins a growing list of studios heading to Scotland in the wake of the Realtime Worlds meltdown
Read More »Gran Turismo 6 name-dropped by Polyphony
Gran Turismo 5 will be released in the UK on November 3rd. There’s no way it can slip. No way at all. But let’s not count our chickens until it’s actually in the wild and sitting on retail shelves. Let’s certainly not utter mention of GranTurismo 6. Although that’s exactly …
Read More »PSP2 being showcased to devs
Yesterday MCV asked ‘Where is the PSP2?‘. The answer appears to be that it’s in the hands of a number of key developers as Sony readies itself for a 2011 launch. That’s according to Eurogamer which claims to have word from three separate development sources. They say it’s comparable in …
Read More »Now Sega’s Creative Assembly heads to Dundee
Firm will host a Friday, August 20th recruitment day for Realtime World staff
Read More »MS responds to Mass Effect on PS3
Platform holder Microsoft has issued an official response to the news that the once Xbox 360 and PC only RPG series Mass Effect will be heading to the PS3 with the release of Mass Effect 2 on Sony’s console in January. The first game in the series, however, will not …
Read More »157 jobs axed at RTW
Administrator confirms that just 53 staff are left at the studio
Read More »Older PS3 SKUs being phased out
Sony has confirmed that the new 320GB and 160GB versions of the PS3 Slim that were announced at its Gamescom press conference last night will replace the 250GB and 120GB models currently found at retail. Once stocks of the existing machines have sold out expect that to be last you …
Read More »Michael Jackson, Just Dance 2 tracks revealed
Ubisoft has revealed a handful of tracks that will be playable in the eagerly awaited Michael Jackson: The Experience. The upcoming dance game based on the late King of Pop’s career will feature some of his most popular hits, including ‘Bad’, ‘Beat It’, ‘Billie Jean’, ‘Earth Song’, ‘The Girl is …
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