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The move toward high-quality HD graphics is detrimental, the creator of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy series has argued. "Now that high-quality graphics rule supreme, you can reproduce what you want to communicate visually,” Hironobu Sakaguchi stated in a recent Iwata Asks feature. But at the same time, I don’t know …

Hideo Kojima, the creative mind behind the Metal Gear Solid series, has confirmed a PlayStation Vita version of Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection. Furthermore, the game will get exclusive new functionality designed to incorporate some of Vita’s exclusive features. You can slice enemy’s throat with knife if you flick the …

Why work for a studio downsized to create digital games when you can do it all yourself?

Retail chain GAME has confirmed that it is to cut 46 jobs from its Basingstoke HQ, MCV can reveal. It comes as part of an internal restructure designed to expand upon GAME’s multi-channel offer and allow it to better to respond to the current video games market”. Current commercial strategy …

Over two thirds of UK games developers are now working on digital games, with only a third left to focus solely on retail games. The findings come from trade association TIGA, which claims that the numbers are symptomatic of a shift away from traditional retail models. "TIGA’s new research shows …

An issue that was preventing some PlayStation Network users from downloading content they have previously paid for has now been resolved. The issues first emerged after last week’s maintenance work. In some cases users saw their complete purchase history vanish from the service. The problems that some users were experiencing …

Remaining Brisbane team to work on digital games

Publisher Capcom has said it will offer replacements to US customers who received a copy of Resident Evil: Revelations containing a typo on the front cover. Last month early copies of the game hit US retail with ‘Resident Evil: Revelaitons’ printed on the 3DS case spine. As you may well …

PC owners will be able to download Microsoft Flight for free in a matter of weeks, with paid-for content available at launch. The flight simulator game is the first from Microsoft to adopt a free-to-play model, unlike previous boxed Flight Sim instalments. Consumers can fly around the ‘Big Islands of …

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