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Over more than two decades, the FIFA series has made hundreds of additions to its virtual recreation of the beautiful game. From ‘97’s six-a-side indoor matches and 2001’s one-button ‘hack’ fouling to 2002’s card-collecting system and 10’s Manager Mode, there’s little that EA’s monster sports IP hasn’t embraced. Or so …

Halo composer Marty O’Donnell has formed a new development studio dubbed Highwire Games with Airtight Games co-founder Jared Noftle and former Bungie designer Jaime Griesemer. VG247reports O’Donnell revealed the news earlier this week, encouraging fans to stay tuned for more information.” Some additional digging on the company’s website and Linkedin …

Hidden Path Entertainment has halted development of its Early Access release Windborne, delisting the game from Steam as a result. Gamasutrahas word on a recent community update by Hidden Path that states the studio has run out of funding to develop the title – adding that the company has explored …

Oculus VR has no plans to extend Rift support to Macbooks until Apple starts prioritizing GPU performance, CEO Palmer Luckey has stated. In an interview with IGN, Luckey explained the current GPUs offered by Apple aren’t even close to what we’re pushing for our recommended spec.” It’s not going to …

Former Nokia boss Stephen Elop is leaving Microsoft a little over a year after overseeing its purchase of the Finnish mobile firm. Former executive VP of operating systems Terry Myerson is to fill his shoes, overseeing a newly formed group called Windows and Devices. We are aligning our engineering efforts …

Kinect may have been totally absent from Microsoft’s excellent E3 presentation, but the company says that software is still in development for the machine. Xbox’s general manager of global games publishing Shannon Loftis told Polygon that not only is the device still coming to Windows 10, but also that unannounced …

Bethesda’s Fallout smartphone experiment is off to an incredibly strong start. Venture Beat reports that the recently release Fallout Shelter has knocked Candy Crush Saga from third place in the top-grossing mobile games charts. King’s title has been more or less a constant presence in third place, earning around $2.55m …

The New 3DS XL is once again No.1 in Japan as a number of new 3DS titles make their debut. According to market data from Famitsu, the two top spots are filled by titles for the 3DS. In pole position this week is Rhythm Heaven: The Best+, which shifted 155,784 …

The future of Beyond Good & Evil 2 looks even more uncertain today following fresh rumours of its demise. Speaking on a GameSpot video ahead Ubisoft’s E3 press conference, one journalist admitted that he had been informed that the game had been abandoned, although the inability to corroborate the claim …

The arrival of PS4 is one of the main reasons why development of The Last Guardian has taken so long to develop. Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida told Kotaku that the team working on the game was struggling to realise its vision on PS3. In fact, he even admitted …