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The Japanese publisher of recently-released action RPG title Nioh says the game has helped expand its audience. Speaking to MCV, the firm’s president Hisashi Koinuma said that while the publisher takes pride in its more traditional Japanese line-up, which includes the likes of the Warriors series and Nobunaga’s Ambition, its …
Read More »SLIVER.tv and ESL to launch first virtual 360° eSports stadium experience at IEM
SLIVER.tv and ESL will create the world’s first VR eSports stadium experience at the Intel Extreme Masters. The stream will sit viewers in a massive stadium, recreating the experience of actually being at the event in person. They will be able to see the avatars of other people who are …
Read More »Team Kinguin announces new deal with nutrition supplier Runtime
Team Kinguin has announced a new sponsorship deal with Runtime, the company that makes nutritional drinks and supplements aimed at the eSports market. The deal sees Runtime become an official partner of the organisation and will provide performance nutrition products to Team Kinguin’s CS:GO and League of Legends teams. In …
Read More »Ghost Recon Wildlands open beta arriving on February 23rd
Ubisoft has announced that the open beta for its upcoming open world title Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands will be available next week between February 23rd and February 27th for all players, with pre-load starting next Monday on the 20th. The open beta will see players romping around two of …
Read More »Snowprint Studios launch new Berlin studio with former Black Anvil team
New studio to work on mid-core mobile titles
Read More »Mapping the future
Increasingly, developers can import a model of a real-world city into their games, rather than designing it themselves. But what does that option really bring to the table, and isn't it a little creatively stifling?
Read More »Cities: Skylines coming to Xbox One this spring
Management sim Cities: Skylines is coming to Xbox One later this year, Paradox Interactive has announced. The game will launch this spring and will also include the original’s first expansion, Cities: Skylines – After Dark. Cities: Skylines – Xbox One Edition is being ported by Tantalus Media (previously responsible for …
Read More »Gabe Newell: “At Valve, we don’t have a budgeting process”
Newell sheds light on how games get made at Valve
Read More »Starbreeze’s StarVR headset to enter mass production late 2017
Starbreeze is to begin mass producing its StarVR headsets later this year, the company revealed in its full year report for 2016. For now, the publisher will continue to distribute and prioritise development on the current version of the headset to its key partners, but there’s been interest from "multiple …
Read More »Apocalypse Now cancels Kickstarter, starts crowdfunding on own website
Not everyone gets everything he wants
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