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Prey 2 has been resurrected once again and is now in the hands of Dishonored creators Arkane Austin, it is being claimed. Kotaku reports that the game, which has been in limbo since losing developer Human Head Studios, has been forced onto Arkane by Bethesda despite that facts that some …

The makers of Shadow of the Eternals have confessed that the game is in danger of not making it to market. The game currently stands at $115,304 on Kickstarter – that’s well short of its $1.35m goal with 18 days left to run. Precursor Games’ own crowdfunding efforts have raised …

Publisher scrapping scheme from existing games as well as new releases

A replica Assassin’s Creed Gauntlet will be offered in the US exclusively through GameStop. Kotaku got some hands-on time with the Edward Kenway’s Hidden Blade Gauntlet, which is made by collectibles specialist McFarlane. As seen in the game series, the device straps to a user’s wrist and produces a hidden …

King's Donna Black discusses the company's rapidly growing empire

A lot of people got very exciting earlier when MCV reported that FIFA 14 on Xbox One is up for pre-order for 90 on Amazon. The same article also pointed out that Xbox One pre-orders are currently priced at 599. Now, in no way was this article saying that MCV …

Jagex's Jim Sweatman offers advice on how to land a job in designing games

Takeyasu Sawaki scoops up rights to develop prequel and sequel to 2011 title

'Microsoft has been focused elsewhere up until now,' says Double Fine boss

I recently labelled a specific element of Xbox One a PR gaffe. Certainly, to not answer the biggest questions some have had about the new Xbox since the start of the year is a mistake. Reacting with silence – or rubbishing reports as ‘inaccurate and incomplete’, as Microsoft did to …