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Self-censorship can negatively affect creativity, says Monkey Island creator

Diablo III players will soon have fresh limits imposed on them by developer Blizzard. At some stage in the near future” Blizzard will limit how many games a player can create within a specific, as of yet unspecified timeframe. We’ve further tuned and tested the conditions that trigger this limit …

Elder Scrolls developer says it's easier to push limitations on PC

DICE GM Karl Magnus, Wargaming.net's Victor Kislyi and former Rare director Martin Hollis expected at event

New PS3 DVR hardware Nasne has missed its proposed release in Japan today after Sony suddenly put a hold on the product”. Andriasang reports that Japanese retailer Famicom Plaza broke the news, speculating that the last-minute decision was perhaps due to a discovery of a bug in the device’s software. …

Oskar Burman leaves role for new challenge in Stockholm

Ubisoft wants to push the morality of the battlefield in next year’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Speaking to Game Informer, the title’s creative director Maxime Beland said Sam Fisher will be faced with morally ambiguous choices in how he deals with his enemies and the men he interrogates. Blacklist pits Fisher …

Manufacturing of credit card sized computer scaled up to 4,000 a day

Fresh whispers of a feature film based on World of Warcraft reveal that Sam Raimi is no longer at the helm. The Spider-Man director and WoW fan was announced as director for the Blizzard film way back in 2009. However, he left the project to make Disney’s upcoming fantasy flick …

Sega is sponsoring the Games Writer of the Year category of this year’s Games Media Awards. The Games Writer of the Year Award has been introduced for 2012 to reward excellence in games journalism. All games journalists – specialist, non-specialist, print and online – can enter this category. Journalists simply …