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Firm has worked with studios such as The Chinese Room and Futurlab over the past year

Project described as Burnout studio’s ‘biggest game yet’ when unveiled at E3 2014

Players of upcoming South Park RPG The Fractured But Whole will have the choice of playing through the saga as a boy or girl. In [predecessor] Stick of Truth we got halfway through the game, and we had narratively come up with the big Girls’ Quest halfway through it. [The …

SoftBank to relinquish stake in Clash of Clans developer, now valued at $10.2bn

Another crowdfunded game has fallen before the final hurdle, leaving backers out of pocket. ReRoll was the creation of former Ubisoft Montreal devs Julien Cuny and Louis-Pierre Pharand’s studio Pixyl. It’s hook was that it was to use drones and existing data to recreate an accurate map of the entire …

Chinese games giant Tencent has just spent big to buy Clash of Clans developer Supercell. The $8.6bn purchase was confirmed by the studio itself following a report by the Wall Street Journal. For that sum, the media giant will purchase a 84.3 per cent state in the Finnish developer. The …

Kickstarted title Fabulous Beasts has had a change of name following trademark issues with Warner Bros. The latter claimed that the toys-to-life game’s title was too similar to that of the upcoming Harry Potter spin-off movie, ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’. Developer Sensible Object thus decided to rename …

Sensible Object’s toys-to-life title becomes Beasts of Balance

Denmark’s Lovable Hat Cult has always made experiences that deal with taboo subjects. The studio rose out of a group of local developers called Copenhagen Game Collective. The projects coming out of this initiative deal with risqu subject matter. One multiplayer title, Dark Room Sex Game, had no visuals. The …

Back in the late ‘90s, Gran Turismo was the No.1 racing game. Although there was a number of unique driving titles, it felt like everyone was following the GT template. But a studio called Criterion wanted to shake up the genre with its new game, Burnout. The title was going …