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"We’re excited to be teaming up with Roblox to inspire our younger fans"
Read More »Roblox partners with Liverpool FC for limited-time free in-game items and outfits
Patrick Bach to lead Ubisoft’s new Stockholm studio
Ubisoft just expanded its presence in Nordic countries and opened its 31st studio in Stockholm, Sweden. The publisher has chosen Patrick Bach, former studio manager at EA DICE, to lead this new studio, which will work hand-in-hand with Ubisoft’s other office in Sweden, Massive, located in Malm. Massive is the …
Read More »Xbox Avatar 2.0 to be more inclusive of users
New avatar system detailed along with the new tagline "for everyone, everywhere"
Read More »Ubisoft announces triple-A Avatar game to expand movie universe
Just one day after it was announced Avatar 2 is going into production, Ubisoft has revealed that it’s made a deal with Fox Interactive and James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment to create a ‘cutting edge’ game based inthe Avatar universe. Massive Entertainment has been handed development duties, which are presumably well …
Read More »Faceware opens Interactive division focused on real-time interactive mo-cap
New arm of middleware firm will concentrate on producing digital ‘puppets’ which can react to humans instantly
Read More »Sunset Overdrive has a dig at Ubisoft with Assassin’s Creed-themed female avatar
Insomniac has confirmed that gamers will be able to play as a female in Xbox One exclusive Sunset Overdrive. And furthermore, the developer has had a little dig at Ubisoft in the process, which of course came under heavy fire for the exclusion of female characters in Assassin’s Creed: Unity …
Read More »My Little Pony avatar items hit Xbox Live
Players are now able to kit out their Xbox Live avatar in a range of My Little Pony gear. As spotted by Eurogamer, a range of items are now available including a range of hoodies (Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Applejack) for 160 Microsoft Points a …
Read More »Breivik’s World of Warcraft avatar shown in court
The jury in the trial of Norwegian gunman Anders Breivik were yesterday shown images of the accused’s World of Warcraft character. Having been told that Breivik spent the best part of a year playing Blizzard’s MMO full time”, they were shown his character – Justicar Andersnordic. He smiled when it …
Read More »Modern Warfare 3 smashes $1 billion barrier
Blockbuster beats Avatar to become fastest entertainment product to reach the milestone
Read More »MW3 sets $1bn sales record
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has become the fastest piece of entertainment to generate $1bn in sales, toppling movie blockbuster Avatar. It achieved this milestone within 16 days of going on sale on November 8th, ahead of Avatar’s 17 days in 2009. Call of Duty now boasts 30m players …
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