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CD Project’s Jose Teixeira says multiplayer and microtransactions are not essential when satisfying gamers

Film director Guillermo del Toro has slammed Konami’s cancellation of his and Hideo Kojima’s Silent Hills title. He also likened the project to Naughty Dog’s successful PlayStation title The Last of Us. It was curious,” he told Bloody Disgusting when asked about his experiences working on the title. We had …

New tools available to develop cross-platform games

Company now owns 6.6 per cent and 6.2 per cent of games firm stocks

Microsoft says that over 80 per cent of UK gamers will have already seen an ad for Halo 5. The firm is splashing the cash on the launch of the sci-fi FPS, which it says will be the biggest Xbox One launch to-date. The campaign started back in January with …

In 1986, Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski entered a short story titled Wiedzmin (‘The Witcher’) into a competition in the local magazine Fantastyka. It won third place. 29 years later, on May 19th 2015, the third in The Witcher series of video games was released. It sold six million copies in …

30th iteration of leading developer conference returns from March 14th to 18th

Hideo Kojima’s video game swansong was twice as successful on its release day than the sequel to one of the biggest movies of all time. That’s according to a new Adobe Digital Index report (as reported by VentureBeat) which estimates that Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain raked in …

Now that Polish developer CD Projekt RED has finished The Witcher 3, we speak to the studio to find out it’s ready to say goodbye to its defining creation. Visual effects artist Jose Teixeira shares the story behind the blockbuster action RPG. We also speak to Nintendo’s Chandra Nair about …

GAME saw a 4.5 per cent dip in pre-tax adjusted profit in the last financial year. The final number reached 38m, down from the 39.8m in the previous year. Adjusted EBITDA earning fell 8.6 per cent to 46.9m. Group revenue was up 0.6 per cent at 866.6m, however, with UK …