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Thomas Was Alone dev Mike Bithell has said that we don’t have the data needed to accurately assess the health of the digital games market. One school of thinking is that the boom of digital indie games has now led to bust. This supposed phenomenon is called the ‘indiepocalypse’. Others …
Read More »All of Revolution’s games bundled into 25th Anniversary release
Developer Revolution has announced a 25th Anniversary SKU bundling its entire back catalogue of titles. Included in the 29.99 release are Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, BS1: Director’s Cut, BS2: The Smoking Mirror, BS2: Remastered, BS3: The Sleeping Dragon, BS4: The Angel of Death and BS5: The Serpent’s Curse. …
Read More »Sony drops pricing info from its PlayStation Blog updates
Readers of the PlayStation Blog are used to posts highlighting new deals and quoting prices in pounds and euros. That, however, is now a thing of the past. From now on gamers will have to actually click through to Sony’s online store to discover the price of a game. That’s …
Read More »What next for console gaming in Japan as PlayStation moves HQ to California?
Sony’s strategic joining of its Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment divisions represents a seismic shift in the gaming landscape. More important then the seemingly logical melding of games and internet was Sony’s decision to uproot PlayStation HQ from its long-term home in Tokyo and move it all the …
Read More »Death Star and Cloud City maps heading to Star Wars Battlefront
EA has detailed four expansions on the way to Star Wars Battlefront for Season Pass holders. The first, called Outer Rim, will arrive in March and sees players fighting among the locations Tatooine and Sullest. That will feature Jabba’s Palace of Return of the Jedi fame. In the summer Bespin …
Read More »Sperry and Ward’s Three Fields announces Dangerous Golf
Three Fields’ in-development sports game has at last been revealed. It’s called Dangerous Golf and it’s due out on PS4, Xbox One and PC in May and is described as a physics-powered experience – that’s no surprise from key members of the team who first brought us the creative destruction …
Read More »It looks as if Michael Jackson DID write Sonic 3’s score
The age-old conspiracy that late pop king Michael Jackson wrote the score for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is true, according to a new report. Jackson had a relationship with Sega, which made his Moonwalker game. He also starred in Space Channel 5 and its sequel. It has long been claimed …
Read More »VIDEO: Platinum’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game revealed
The rumours were true – the next title from Platinum Games is based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Some think of the heroes in a half shelf as a ‘90s phenomena, but in truth they’ve never really gone away. Recent successes have included the actually really, really good animated …
Read More »Five Nights at Freddy’s World pulled from Steam
After what can at best be described as a troubled launch, developer Scott Cawthon has removed Five Nights at Freddy’s World from Steam. The game launched with a number of bugs and missing features, with Cawthon admitting that: There are a lot of features that this game should have had …
Read More »Pokemon is getting its first ever Super Bowl ad
Viewers of this year’s Super Bowl will for the first time be greeted with a Pokemon ad. The ad was shot in Rio de Janeiro and celebrates the millions of Pokmon fans around the world”. The short lasts 30 seconds, with an extended version then available online. It will be …
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