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Arc System Works has purchased the rights to all IP owned by Technos Japan Corp, including the Double Dragon and Kunio-kun series. The deal has been in effect since the beginning of this month, but further details have yet to be revealed. However, Games Industry reports the company known for …

VR has unquestionably been the most hotly debated topic in Los Angeles this week. There are those that will vehemently insist that VR will be a motion controller fad at most. That pricey peripherals never work and that virtual reality headsets are destined to go down the same route as …

Start-up wants to help developers advertise to paying users

The Wii U was meant to launch with a new F-Zero title when it came out in 2012. That’s according to Nintendo Life,who reports that Burnout developer Vriterion was approached by Nintendo to make a new entry in the fast-paced sci-fi racer in 2011. The plan was for Nintendo to …

The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.” So begins William Gibson’s 1984 novel Neuromancer, a seminal work that helped launched the cyberpunk genre of science fiction. It’s a movement that analyses the effects of tech on society and stars hackers, criminals and …

Puzzle & Dragons developer to publish titles across all platforms

Developer event kicks off tomorrow

Rogue Factor's Edgar Parente on how it switched to the latest version of the game engine mid-development

I know what you’re probably thinking – what the devil is J-Stars Victory Vs+? Bandai Namco’s fighting title gathers characters from the long-running and hugely popular Japanese manga comic anthology Shonen Jump to celebrate the publication’s 45th anniversary. Think Super Smash Bros, but featuring a roster of Japanese comic book …

Event takes place between November 5th to the 7th in Pune, India