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No more online multiplayer for Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros Brawl

Gaming PC manufacturer says getting good business out of Valve’s upcoming microconsole with be very challenging

Team 17’s Worms Battlegrounds will be released on Xbox One and PS4 later this month. It will arrive both in boxed and digital form on June 30th, although the digital PS4 release in the US will arrive a tad later – June 3rd. The game is one of the first …

One million sales and beyond – that’s the expectation Tecmo Koei has for its in-development Wii U exclusive Hyrule Warriors. In gaming, this is a first-time collaboration,” Tecmo Koei president Yoichi Erikawa told Nikkei, as reported by Nintendo Everything. As a new entry in the Warriors series, we plan to …

Development can be an expensive business. So to help you cut costs, we've put together a list of useful free tools

The German developer and publisher gives us an exclusive look at its innovative technique for creating 3D scenes from 2D art

The upcoming death of Games for Windows Live doesn’t mean permanent hollowing for Dark Souls. That’s according to Bandai Namco, which has pledged that the PC version of the cult RPG will continue working for the time being and eventually migrate to an alternative system. With the release of Dark …

Top developers to discuss indies, VR and new ways to develop games

Assassin's Creed Pirates has been built to adapt to any screen resolution or device

The producer of Bandai Namco title SoulCalibur: Lost Swords has apparently stated that the game was designed to use a pay-to-win” payment model. That, producer Masaaki Hoshino has told Siliconera, is the reason why the free-to-play fighter opted for singleplayer instead of multiplayer gameplay. Originally we were thinking about having …