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Activision has announced the next DLC pack for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and it includes a remake of one of the series’ most well loved maps. The Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Continuum DLC pack will add four maps and a new Zombies experience and will launch on April …
Read More »Academy Award winner Ken Perlin to deliver Develop:Brighton keynote
The 2017 conference's third keynote to be delivered by the NYU professor
Read More »Terraria spin-off Otherworld drops its developer
Dutch developer Engine Software is no longer making Terraria spin-off Otherworld. Terraria developer Re-Logic has confirmed that Engine has been yanked from the project after what appears to have been a long and problematic development period, with little progress being made since the announcement of Otherworld in early 2015. Our …
Read More »Blizzard successfully sues cheat maker Bossland in US
World of Warcraft and Overwatch developer Blizzard has won a US lawsuit against bot maker Bossland. The German company has been ordered to pay Blizzard $8.6m having been found guilty of nearly 43,000 counts of copyright infringement. Bossland had tried to have the case dismissed but chose not to defend …
Read More »BioWare lays down improvement roadmap for Mass Effect: Andromeda
EA owned developer BioWare has outlined some immediate improvements on the way for Mass Effect: Andromeda. The studio has also identified aspects of the game that will be worked on over the next two months. Tomorrow (Thursday April 5th) a patch will be released that will not only improve performance …
Read More »Snake Pass beats Zelda to No.1 spot in Switch eShop charts
Charts have arrived on the Nintendo Switch eShop and Sumo Digital’s Snake Pass is the first title to take the No.1 spot. The charts are based on the number of downloads from the last two weeks, and will be updated automatically, according to Nintendo’s Switch news post, giving players an …
Read More »Nier: Automata hits 1m shipped
Potentially super-niche RPG Nier: Automata has achieved some definitely not niche sales numbers. Square Enix has announced that it has shipped 1m copies of the game across both physical and digital. It is currently available on PS4 and PC. The RPG has done very well critically, too, hitting 89 per …
Read More »Atlus threatens Persona 5 streamers
In a somewhat backwards looking step, Atlus has told streamers that they face action should they stream too much of RPG hit Persona 5. We don’t want the experience to be spoiled for people who haven’t played the game,” Atlus USA said. Our fans have waited years for the game …
Read More »Twitch launches game sales
Viewers of streaming video platform Twitch are now able to purchase PC game content directly through the platform. Developers can present offers via their streams, while officially Partnered streamers can earn cash from sales made on their pages, at a rate of five per cent. Purchases can be downloaded and …
Read More »Decima Engine: New Horizons
The art of Horizon Zero Dawn is a departure from Guerrilla Games’ previous games. Jem Alexander finds out how the creation of the Decima engine and expansion of the art team fed into that
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