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Platinum’s apparent ever growing fondness of PC may see one of its most popular titles ported to the platform. Speaking to Kotaku, co-founder Atsushi Inaba was asked about the possibility of a PC release for 2010 console shooter Vanquish. The response? If you stop recording, I can talk about that.” …
Read More »Valve introduces new Steam trading restrictions
The increasingly strict controls surrounding Steam gifts have been further tightened. A new set of restrictions has been introduced relating to games that feature Valve Anti-Cheat Technology (VAC). Valve has announced that players will no longer be able to add VAC titles to their inventories, preventing stockpiling of such games. …
Read More »Take-Two admits Battleborn has fallen short, but vows to continue taking risks
Strauss Zelnick has told investors that the company will continue to back Battleborn despite its sales falling below expectations. While the game launched to solid reviews, its performance in the market has been below our expectations,” the Take-Two CEO said, as reported by Seeking Alpha. We think there remains an …
Read More »Develop August 2016: Hideo Kojima, CD Projekt Red, life after Lionhead and more
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Read More »Xcom 2’s console arrival suffers slight delay
PC’s critical hit Xcom 2 has been pushed back a few weeks on PS4 and Xbox One. The Firaxis action strategy outing had been due out on September 9th, but will now not arrive in the UK until September 30th. It hits the US slightly earlier on September 27th. This …
Read More »BioWare: ‘The MMO market has never been bigger’
The director of Star Wars: The Old Republic insists that the MMO market is more popular than ever. The MMO sector has seen declines amongst its traditional big hitters, such as Blizzard’s World of Warcraft. Yet James Ohlen tells MCV that the recent success of Activision’s Destiny and Ubisoft’s The …
Read More »Human Elocution: Elias Toufexis on the past, present and future of voice acting
Gruff-voiced Elias Toufexis may be the face of mankind’s future in Deus Ex, but he’s also a sign of things to come for studios. James Batchelor asks him why voice actors want to become increasingly involved in their character’s development
Read More »Valve offers its SteamVR tracking tech to other devs
Third-party developers will soon be able to make use of SteamVR’s tracking abilities in their own virtual reality hardware, opening the doors for custom controllers for VR titles. Valve has announced that it will offer royalty-free licences for the platform to hardware makers who complete an in-person training course. The …
Read More »Merge on the hunt for UK indie games developers
Publisher Merge Games plans to be the No.1 indie label in the North of Britain. The firm also hopes its strategy of working with leading British games creators will see it become one of the UK’s biggest publishers overall. The news comes as the company prepares to release games – …
Read More »90 games approved for UK games tax relief in H1 2016
Number of titles certified in the last 12 months now at 178, UK spend at £554m
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