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EA is planning to wait and see how well VR performs before it jumps into the virtual reality market. Speaking at UBS Global Technology Conference – as reported by GI.Biz – EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said that the publisher is going to hold off until the VR market reaches a …

This week’s Star Wars Battlefront is just the start for EA’s rebooted sci-fi shooter series. Speaking at the UBS Global Technology Conference (via GameSpot), the publisher’s CFO Blake Jorgensen said that it had struck a near 10-year deal with Disney to create Star Wars games – and that further Battlefront …

Former Assassin’s Creed producer Jade Raymond joined EA for a very good reason. Raymond, who produced Ubisoft’s original historical stealth-action title in 2007 and its 2009 sequel, moved across to EA’s Motive Studios in July of this year. Her only confirmed project to date was the as-yet untitled Star Wars …

Microsoft has announced the addition of button mapping support to standard Xbox One controllers. Aspromised last monthby the firm upon the arrival of the Xbox One Elite controller, the ability to customize button inputs isnow availablefor all Xbox One wireless controllers. The support does carry a few limitations, when compared …

Nipon Ichi’s popular tactical RPG series Disgaea is set to debut on PC early next year. Anew store page on Steamlisted by the company reveals the definitive edition of the original Disgaea will launch within the release window of February 2016. PC features include updated UI and textures, support for …

Reports in the aftermath of the recent Paris terror attack have alleged that ISIS is using PS4s to freely communicate. The accusation, which was made by Belgium’s Interior Minister Jan Jambon, centres on the claim that PS4’s player-to-player communications use an encryption method that I harder to crack than other …

After the record-breaking success of Skyrim, Bethesda returns to the nuclear wasteland for Fallout 4. MCV looks at the merchandise set to make gamers glow green with envy (not radiation) Bethesda is pulling out all the stops in its follow-up to two of the most popular games of the last …

Core engine of The Game Creators' toolset converted to C++ foundation

Sony has said that a port of 1992 SNES platformer Super Star Wars will be released for PS4 and Vita this week. That’s in the US at least – we’ve still not yet had definitive word on whether it will arrive in Europe this week. A November 17th release in …

Details of further edits to the European and American versions of Wii U RPG Xenoblade Chronicles X have provoked yet more bizarre censorship allegations. Siliconera reports that in the Japanese version of the game the character creator allows users to control breast size with a slider, allowing the game’s 13-year-old …