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As part of the newly fragmented schedule for the Freeplay Festival this year, nine Aussie-made games were showcased back-to-back by the developers themselves in Melbourne last Saturday.

Halo developer 343 Industries has peeled back the curtain on Remaking the Legend – Halo 2: Anniversary,” a documentary chronicling development of the updated sequel featured in the Master Chief Collection. The game itself will feature updated audio, HD graphics, and an hour of new cinematics. It’ll also carry a …

Ex-Diablo and Torchlight developers Travis Baldree and Erich Schaefer have announced open-world space survival game Rebel Galaxy for PlayStation 4 and Windows PC. A post on the US PlayStation Blog reveals the upcoming title from Double Damage Games – a new studio co-founded by Baldree and Schaefer, the pair that …

Rockstar is warning Grand Theft Auto fans to watch out for scams claiming to offer beta access to the upcoming re-release of GTA V. The warning comes from a newly added page on Rockstar’s official site. The studio clarifies that the upcoming re-release of the title on PC, PS4 and …

Jade Raymond, founder of Ubisoft Toronto and producer of its Assassin’s Creed, Watch Dogs and Splinter Cell games, among others, has left the company. During her time at Ubisoft, Raymond was producer on the first Assassin’s Creed from 2004 to 2007, going on to serve as executive producer on the …

Toronto studio MD quits after ten years with publisher

Keen Software House to continue updating sandbox game with new features

Keen Software House’s Steam Early Access title Space Engineers has now sold over 1m copies since its release in October 2013. The game hit 500k sales in May. We feel twice as happy with this achievement since it came on our first year anniversary since Space Engineers was launched to …

Oddworld Inhabitants has admitted that it is having trouble with the planned Wii U version of Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty. GameSpot reports that creator Lorne Lanning wants to ensure that the Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee remake must run on all versions of Nintendo’s hardware before he is prepared to release it. …

The news last week that Future and Nintendo had decided to close Official Nintendo Magazine is a sad sign of the times. UK Nintendo magazines have come and gone over the years. The biggest casualty before now had been in 2012 when Nintendo Gamer – the successor to a long …