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Developer Ys Net has embarked on yet another crowdfunding campaign for RPG sequel Shenmue 3. The game has already raised $6,333,295 Kickstarter, but the studio has opened what it calls a ‘Slacker Backer’ period designed to encourage those who didn’t pledge first time around to add their cash to the …

Develop heads deep into the Swedish woods to find out exactly what is going on

We don’t know how many games consoles have been sold in China – but the noises coming from Sony suggest it isn’t as many as had been hoped. SCE CEO Andrew House has told Reuters that the region’s famously strict censorship rules have proved a hurdle for PS4 in the …

Hardware revenue expected to exceed $4bn

Cross-platform tools developer teams up with retail giant following the launch of new Underground games venture

When MCV spoke to Capcom at the start of 2015, the firm was in high spirits. The Japanese publisher had a busy release schedule following a quiet 2014, in which the company released little of note. That in turn followed a 2012 and 2013 which had seen entries in its …

News has emerged that Scottish games developer Stewart Hogarth has sadly passed away. Gamasutrareports that Stewart was fighting congenital heart disease right up until Tuesday, September 15th. He was just 34 years old. Stewart was known to much of the Scottish games community, having worked at firms such as Denki …

Fastest downloaded Ubisoft title on PlayStation ever

Sales of physical games in the UK generated just 22.5m last month, the lowest figure for an August since the mid-1990s. It is the 14th worst month in UK games industry history – 12 of which took place during 1996 and 1997. The only month in recent memory to reach …

Ex-Denki game designer loses battle to congenital heart disease