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Double Fine is looking for $3.3m to make a sequel to 2005 platformer Psychonauts. Tim Schafer announced the game at The Game Awards last night. Along with the money raised from crowdfunding platform Fig, the game will also be propped up by the studio itself and investors. In total an …
Read More »Batman’s getting the Telltale treatment
DC’s Caped Crusader has become the latest brand to join the bulging ranks of Telltale Games. The studio unveiled an episodic Batman series at last night’s Game Awards, with a release date of 2016 confirmed. At Telltale, we’ve been honoured to bring our unique approach to interactive storytelling to some …
Read More »Konami blocked Kojima from accepting Game Award prize
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima was blacked by Konami from accepting an award at last night’s Game Awards event. Instead, Metal Gear Solid V star Kiefer Sutherland took to the stage to accept the prize for Best Action/Adventure Game. "Hideo Kojima is not here with us tonight and I …
Read More »Nintendo says Quality of Life lives on, consumers aren’t using Amiibo as intended
The Quality of Life aspirations of the late Satoru Iwata remain in development at Nintendo. That’s the message from Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima, although the exec remained relatively cagey on the subject in what was an otherwise pretty frank interview. Mr Iwata had, when he previously talked about the quality …
Read More »NX is ‘something unique and different’ and ‘not the next Wii or Wii U’
Nintendo’s NX console will not follow the path laid out by either the Wii or the Wii U. I’ve said it’s different and obviously a new experience,” Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima told TIME. If you look back to the beginning of our conversation today, we talked about the transition from …
Read More »EA contests GameStop’s Star Wars Battlefront fears
Peter Moore has questioned the uncertainties posed by GameStop about the performance of Star wars Battlefront. The retailer last month said that the game had failed to hit its already lowered sales expectations. EA’s COO, however, has said such a claim came as a surprise to him and that the …
Read More »Total War devs admit to being ‘disheartened’ at Chaos Warriors DLC backlash
A designer for upcoming Sega title Total War: Warhammer has said that the studio has been left a little down in the dumps by the fury that greeted its recent pre-order DLC announcement. The announcement in October that the popular Chaos race will be locked behind a pre-order paywall was …
Read More »Boxed release planned for Pokemon Rumble World
Nintendo’s free-to-play 3DS outing Pokmon Rumble World is to receive a microtransaction-free digital release. The boxed version, which will be released on January 22nd, will have all of the original’s in-app purchases removed. Instead, players will start with a large reserve of the in-game currency Pok Diamonds. More will then …
Read More »AMD ends support for almost all graphics cards released before 2013
A large number of AMD’s existing graphics cards will no longer be supported by the company. Accompanying the launch of its new Crimson driver, AMD has confirmed that it has dropped support for all non-GCN based cards, which includes the Radeon HD 5000 and Radeon HD 6000 series, as well …
Read More »Dying Light Season Pass price is being increased
Techland is increasing the price of the Season Pass for its zombie game Dying Light. Currently the Season Pass costs 15.99. However, this will be increased to 23.99 on December 8th. The studio says it’s doing this because upcoming expansion The Following has grown in scale and now offers more …
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