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Funcom’s bold attempt at championing the male form in Conan Exile will be toned down for the game’s Xbox release. Much merriment resulted from the game’s release on Steam earlier this year when players discovered an ‘endowment slider’ among the customisation options. We’ve seen games with breast size adjustment before, …
Read More »Bent docks and dead pixels added to Nintendo Switch noise
So here’s the thing – when millions of new electrical devices are shipped out for a product launch, some of them are going to be faulty. It’s statistically inevitable. The challenge then becomes determining whether the unavoidable issues that arise online are symptomatic of inherent problems we should be worried …
Read More »Dean Hall’s space survival game Ion is no more
The space game announced by the creator of DayZ at E3 2015 is no more. Ion was proudly announced on the Microsoft E3 stage in 2015 by Dean Hall. He described it as a game that it not a game” and a universe built not on scripts or quests, but …
Read More »Kongregate CEO tweets graph showing rise of HTML5
Emily Greer sheds some light on the games that make up Kongregate
Read More »Deadline for BAFTA Guru Lab program looms
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Read More »Nintendo Switch biggest console launch in Europe, Zelda: Breath of the Wild biggest-selling launch title
Nintendo UK has confirmed that the Switch has sold more units in its launch weekend than any other piece of Nintendo hardware in the company’s history, and that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is now the biggest-selling Nintendo launch title in Europe, even out-selling Wii Sports in …
Read More »How Playground accelerated Forza over the $1bn line
Playground Games’ Forza Horizon 3 was the best-selling Britsoft game of 2016 – putting to one side GTA V’s incredible staying power – and the biggest Xbox One exclusive. To date, it’s already sold 2.5m copies worldwide, helping blast the Forza franchise to lifetime sales of $1bn. With this milestone …
Read More »Strategy First, Kylotonn and PQube on bringing the fun back with Flatout 4
Total failure; waste of time and money; plain bad; disgusting to play: these are some of the kinder words used to describe Flatout 3 when it came out back in 2011, and its subtitle – Chaos & Destruction – was an apt reflection of both its review scores and its …
Read More »The licensing game: Bits and Pixels
Last year, Konami alumni Sandra Arcan and Su-Yina Farmer decided to set up their own video game licensing company, Bits and Pixels. At Konami, the duo – Arcan (pictured, right) in her role as senior manager of licensing and merchandise and Farmer (pictured, far right) as European comms manager – worked on …
Read More »Yooka-Laylee: Playing to an audience
How do you make sure your nostalgia-fueled game has a familiar feel, but still brings something new to the table? Jem Alexander speaks to the audio director and two composers on Yooka-Laylee to find out
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