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Ubisoft won’t be bringing its latest Assassin’s Creed entry to PS3 and Xbox 360. In an interview with GameSpot, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Ubisoft Tony Key said the publisher wouldn’t be able to launch a previous-gen edition of Unity. It’s built for next-gen; it can’t be …

Programmer roles at studios across the globe

Galactic MMO Elite: Dangerous has emerged from E3 with a new trailer. Frontier Developments showcased the new trailer, which offers a detailed look at the gameplay in Elite: Dangerous. The footage shows off the open-world gameplay of Elite: Dangerous as players board their spacecraft and head out into the vast …

Research suggests that 31 per cent of PS4 owners had an Xbox 360 or Wii but not a PS3 in the last hardware generation. That’s according to PlayStation’s American VP of marketing John Koller, who told Kotaku that the same research also suggested that 17 per cent of current PS4 …

AMD has announced that it will combine its previously separate business, global operations and sales arms to create a singular organisation The move comes as part of the company’s previously announced multi-year strategic transformation. The new unified organisation will become responsible for all aspects of product strategy, product execution, sales …

The THQ brand is to make a return. The publishing label disappeared last year as part of a process that saw Nordic swoop for a host of THQ IP such as Darksiders, Red Faction, Stuntman, MX vs ATV and Destroy All Humans. Now Polygon reports that Nordic has also acquired …

Nintendo’s Eiji Aonuma has said that he is aware of the demand for a remake of Majora’s Mask. The Zelda bosssaid in an interview with Kotaku that he has heard to fans demanding he revist the title. Not only this – he admits to toying with fans by including Majora’s …

Julian Gollop tells Develop about his journey from working with big publishers to going back to his roots

Developer wants to work with players to help ensure a stable release

Gamers wanting to play Far Cry 4 without owning a copy will now be able to do so. PS4 users lacking Far Cry 4 will now be able to join players who own the game via its co-op mode. Similar to the Download Play service available on Nintendo 3DS, users …