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Digital indie PC hit Spintires has been hauled out of its development limbo. The game dabbled with the top of the Steam charts last summer and even passed the 100k sales barrier. However, a dispute between developer Pavel Zagrebelnyy and publisher Oovee saw work on the Kickstarted project grind to …

Monkey Island and Grim Fandango creator Tim Schafer has criticised the recent treatment of Peter Molyneux online and in the press. I’d like to send our support to friend and fellow developer Peter Molyneux,” he said in a Broken Age Kickstarter update video, which you can see below. In the …

Tung Nguyen-Khac to head up online games firm from April onwards

Sony is to spin-off many of its businesses as PlayStation, Sony Pictures and image sensors are being repositioned as the core of its new structure. The company intends to split its audio and video (TV) divisions from its main operations in the same way it did its Vaio PC business. …

Free-to-play PS4 RPG Deep Down IS still in development, but has undergone some big changes since it was first unveiled. It looks like Deep Down will take just a little longer,” Capcom’s consumer games development boss Yoshinori Ono told 4Gamer, as reported by Siliconera. It also looks like some people …

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Ubisoft’s experimental PC Grow Home could yet brand out onto other platforms. Want to see Grow Home on consoles?” game artist at Ubisoft Reflections Jack Couvela said. We have to prove ourselves on PC first, so tell every PC gamer you know they have to buy it!” He also said …

Consumers can get a 50 per cent discount on new PS4 title The Order: 1886 by trading in a select title at GAME. The retailer will sell the regular edition of the game at half price to anyone who trades in a copy of either Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, …

Supermassive takes second spot as Epic claims third

Marvel Puzzle Quest developer Demiurge Studios has been acquired by Sega. The Sonic the Hedgehog creator has also invested in UK studio Space Ape and established a majority stake in US studio startup Ignited Artists. The moves come after Sega last month announced the cutting of 300 jobs and a …