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As remarkable Kickstarter meltdowns go, this is probably the daddy. Back in 2013, Peachy Printer raised $651k to make what was being dubbed as the world’s first $100 3D printer. However, in a remarkable update, co-creator Rylan Grayston has claimed that partner and financial manager David Boe has spent $320k …
Read More »Capcom to give titles more dev time, says Street Fighter V ‘needed more polish’
Street Fighter V’s launch wobbles have led to a change in development strategy at Capcom. Chairman and CEO Kenzo Tsujimoto has told investors that part of the reason why the company has forecast a dip in operating income is that it’s best to spend a little more time in developing …
Read More »Paradox sticks up for IGN’s Stellaris review and critical freedom
Publisher Paradox Interactive has urged fans to stop lambasting IGN for what some feel is an unfair review of Stellaris. The space strategy title, which is off to an incredibly strong start, has a Metacritic rating of 78 per cent. IGN awarded the title a 6.3/10, saying that sections later …
Read More »Gearbox is ‘cautiously optimistic’ about Battleborn’s sales potential
Developer Gearbox has said that its new multiplayer shooter Battleborn is off to a steady” start that that it hopes lays the foundation for bigger sales in the future. Cautiously optimistic,” creative director Randy Varnell said on Twitch when asked how the studio felt about the game’s release. The launch …
Read More »Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2 won’t cannibalise one another, EA insists
The first person shooter market is large enough to sustain both of EA’s Q4 releases – and their competitors – later this year. That’s according to EA CEO Andrew Wilson, who was pressed on whether there were concerns about possible sales cannibalisation in an investor call. This is a giant …
Read More »3m copies of Dark Souls 3 shipped worldwide
Bandai Namco has shipped 3m copies of From Software’s action RPG Dark Souls 3, following its release in March. Gematsu also reports that total shipments for all three games in the Dark Souls series have now hit 13m units. This does not include Sony-published pair Demon’s Souls and Bloodborne. Dark …
Read More »Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem will be free-to-play on smartphone
Nintendo has confirmed that its next two smartphone titles will be free-to-play. Smartphone outings for Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem were confirmed last month. Now Wall Street Journal reports that both DeNA chief executive Isao Moriyasu and a Nintendo spokesperson have confirmed that both will be free to download. Nintendo’s …
Read More »Stellaris breaks Paradox revenue record with 200,000 day one sales
Space strategy title Stellaris has been an instant hit for publisher Paradox Interactive. The game has in its first 24 hours on sale sold over 200,000 units. That’s actually slightly short of the 250k copies sold by Paradox’s former release Cities: Skylines, but Stellaris’ higher price means that it represents …
Read More »Star Wars: Battlefront 2 due in 2017, Visceral’s Star Wars game in 2018
EA has said that a sequel to Star Wars: Battlefront will be released in 2017. Its enthusiasm is undoubtedly buoyed by the success of the first game, which in EA’s last financial year (ending March 31st) saw 14m copies shipped. That’s well ahead of the 13m EA forecast back in …
Read More »Framerate fixes roll out for Windows 10 UWP
Microsoft has at last added some key framerate functionality to Universal Windows Platform games on Windows 10. UWP has come under intense fire for a host of missing functionality in games supplied via the Windows Store. The company had previously promised to work to narrow the gap between these titles …
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