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It appears that the upcoming God of War 3 Remastered will be getting its own PlayStation 4 hardware bundle. That’s according to Videogamer, who spotted a listing for the aforementioned bundle on Amazon France. The bundle includes a 500GB PS4, as well as a physical copy of God of War …
Read More »One teacher’s battle to make a game
Last year, Oxford-based physics teacher Nicholas Spargo quit his job to work full time on JRPG passion project, Melancholy Republic. He isn’t your typical indie developer. In fact, he had no experience of games development and even less of coding. I haven’t done a course in it or anything,” says …
Read More »Guillermo del Toro discusses Silent Hills cancellation
The filmmaker describes Konami's removal of playable teaser as a "scorched earth approach"
Read More »Do indie developers still need publishers?
Finally, thanks to digital distribution, developers can ditch those creatively restrictive publishers and goit alone. MCV speaks to those companies who insist the right publisher can be a force for good Developers can release games on their own, with no real need for publishers. Why should they still turn to …
Read More »Guillermo del Toro speaks out on Konami’s ‘scorched earth’ approach to PT cancellation
Film maker Guillermo del Toro has said he was surprised at the lengths Konami has gone to to remove PT from PSN. Speaking to IGN, delToro described the publisher’s attempts to remove the game from PSN, and preventing consumers from re-downloading the demo if they already owned it as a …
Read More »Ars Technica promises to ‘pull no punches’ with new UK site
The newly-launched UK branch of consumer website Ars Technica has pledged to not ‘pull any punches’ in its coverage of the latest technology. Senior editor Sebastian Anthony (pictured), who has hired former GameSpot journalist Mark Walton to boost Ars’ gaming credentials, says the firm will have ‘zero fluff’ and go …
Read More »Grand Theft Auto V has sold 5m boxed copies in the UK
Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V continues to be a force to be reckoned with at UK physical retail, and last week surpassed five million units sold in the UK. That’s according to market data from GfK Chart-Track, which counts sales of UK physical games. It has sold one million units …
Read More »Project CARS first Bandai Namco consecutive No.1 in 16 years, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood debuts in second place
Project CARS is No.1 in the UK All Formats Top 40 for the second week running, and is the first Bandai Namco game to achieve this feat since Ridge Racer Type 4 in 1999. The publisher’s racing title maintains the top spot in spite of a 64 per cent drop …
Read More »Microsoft also promoting Xbox One Witcher 3 hardware bundle, £299.99 exclusively at GAME
Sony isn’t the only platform holder pushing a Witcher 3: Wild Hunt hardware bundle on its social media channels. Microsoft has also entered the fray yesterday, taking to Twitter to promote a deal (below) on an Xbox One, The Witcher 3 and indie title Ori and the Blind Forest for …
Read More »Xbox One triumphs over PS4 in April in America
The Xbox One outsold Sony’s PlayStation 4 in the US last month, according to data firm NPD’s monthly games and console report. As reported by Venture Beat, the American games market was up three per cent year-on-year, rising from $595.7m to $579.5m. Revenue from hardware sales was down four per …
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