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Blizzard’s chief creative officer Rob Pardo has left after 17 years with the studio. Pardo’s credits include StarCraft, World of Warcraft and Diablo 3, plus a number of other titles. After 17 years at Blizzard, with long and careful contemplation, I have made a difficult and bittersweet but ultimately exciting …
Read More »Cowen: Destiny could outsell COD, Battlefield: Hardline pre-orders in line with Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed, Halo – all will be outsold by Bungie’s Destiny this year, according to Cowen Research analyst Doug Creutz. VentureBeat reports that the company’s data on game pre-orders points to sales of between 10-15m units this year – which by implication means that either a fantastic …
Read More »Dinklage’s Destiny dialogue has been improved, Bungie claims
Bungie says that Peter Dinklage’s voice performance in the Destiny alpha is being revised for the game’s actual release. Dinklage, best known for playing Tyrion Lannister in HBO’s Game of Thrones series, has been criticised for what is being called a lacklustre and phoned-in” voiceover performance for AI companion Ghost …
Read More »Bungie vows to make sure Destiny works at launch
Battlefield 4, Grand Theft Auto Online, Final Fantasy XIV, SimCity, Half-Life 2, Diablo III – the list of online launch disasters is hardly a small one. But Bungie has said that it is already working on measures to ensure that Destiny is not added to any such list this September. …
Read More »PlayStation-only Destiny DLC exclusive until at least Christmas 2015
The US-arm of Amazon has apparently revealed that the exclusive Destiny content for PS4 and PS3 will remain tied to those platforms until ‘at least Fall 2015’. Spotted by CVG, the website says: "Exclusive content for PlayStation 4 owners includes the Exodus Blue Competitive Multiplayer Map, Dust Palace Strike, Weapons, …
Read More »Skylanders magazine, comic incoming as part of new licensing agreements
Comic giant IDW, Crayola, Immediate Media and General Mills have all signed up or extended their deals as licensing partners for Activision’s Skylanders property. IDW’s official comic book series will serve as a prequel to Skylanders Trap Team, with issue #0 featuring a 16-page introductory story to the universe. Immediate …
Read More »Game companies see rise in stock following strong retail results
Investors have responded kindly to the latest reported results at US retail, as game companies such as Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts are seeing strong increases in share prices this week. Games Industry reports both Activison and EA hit 52-week highs on Tuesday. At time of writing, Activision was trading …
Read More »Destiny PC port ‘a heavy point of discussion’ at Activision
Hopes for a PC port of Bungie’s upcoming shooter Destiny appear to be very much alive. "It is [a good fit], and it’s something we’re talking about and looking at very carefully, and obviously it makes a lot of sense with the genre and the type of game it is," …
Read More »SONY: Destiny alpha available to PS4 owners this week
PS4 gamers will access the Destiny beta on July 17th. And this Thursday, PS4 owners can even play the ‘Destiny first-look Alpha’ that lasts a week. Gamers need to simply visit: www.Greatnessawaits.com/destiny to access it. Activision also has announced a number of PS4 exclusives, such as weapons and a ‘strike …
Read More »THE BIG GAME: Sledgehammer’s dramatic revamp of Call of Duty
In the first of our weekly in-depth pieces on an upcoming blockbuster, we speak to Sledgehammer to discover why Advanced Warfare is the most exciting Call of Duty in years. A giant space ship is seen floating above an unknown planet. In the background, a woman eerily sings the children’s …
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