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The writer behind Spec Ops: The Line and upcoming shooter Evolve has quit triple-A games development. Announcing his departure viaTwitter, writer Walt Williams left 2K Games last week after almost a decade with the company. He claimed he will still be involved in the games industry, but will also be …

Doom creator John Romero has criticised the lack of creativity in the Call of Duty series and argued that first person shooter developers need to start thinking differently. Call of Duty is enough of a deathmatch game to keep people coming back to it year after year,” he told MCV’s …

Destiny may be an Activision title coming out on both PlayStation and Xbox, but Sony says it has given the title the first party treatment. "We’re treating it, for all intents and purposes internally, as if it’s a first-party release," Sony’s UK boss Fergal Gara told Eurogamer. "We’re wrapping our …

Warner Bros has announced a delay to the last-gen versions of Shadow of Mordor. The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the Monolith game will now be released on November 21st in Europe. Both had initially been intended to arrive alongside the PS4, Xbox One and PC titles on October …

Over 1,000 UK games retailers opened at midnight last night to herald the launch of Destiny. And Activision’s UK MD Roy Stackhouse says there is no better advert for the power of the High Street retailer. "UK retail has done an outstanding job," he told MCV last night. "There is …

GAME, at least the old GAME, used to be notoriously slow at launching things. We recall the days they would speak to us about updating their website or launching a new piece of tech. It would often take a good six months at least before we saw it in the …

Service launching in Japan next month

A new mobile game streaming service is coming to Japan courtesy of Square Enix. Kotaku reports that Dive In offers game streaming on iOS and Android and will launch with Final Fantasy VII International, Final Fantasy XIII and Season of Mystery: The Cherry Blossom Murders. 30 minute demos will be …

Media organisation also airing educational shows for programming on CBBC and CBeebies

Martin Ganteföhr's first game with Hamburg studio to be unveiled in the next few months