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Developer Tripwire has included a clause in the end user license agreement for Steam title Killing Floor 2 that gives it the right to ban players who are abusive. We also will not tolerate anyone using the game, or any servers or forums provided for the game, to be continually …
Read More »Wii U game Rodea the Sky Soldier includes a boxed Wii copy as a bonus
The first run of a recently released Wii U game in Japan has included an unusual extra – boxed copy of the same game for the Wii. Kotaku reports that Rodea the Sky Soldier was originally made for Nintendo’s first motion-controlled console. However, despite being complete its original publisher Kadokawa …
Read More »Premium Workshop mod pulled from Steam
Day one for Steam’s new paid mods from the Steam Workshop is not going well. As reported this morning, Steam has for the first time allowed mod makers to charge a fee for their efforts. Skyrim is the first title to offer premium mods. However, just hours after going live …
Read More »Smash Bros creator: ‘DLC scam’ has become an epidemic
The creator of Super Smash Bros has accused rival publishers of withholding content from their games so it can be sold at an additional cost for more profit. Gamasutra reports that Masahiro Sakurai told Famitsu, as translated by Source Gaming, that publishers’ modern day DLC strategies are betraying consumers. These …
Read More »Resident Evil HD passes 1m worldwide sales
Capcom has revealed that its recent reworking of survival horror classic Resident Evil has been a strong seller. Specifically, the game has sold over 1m units worldwide since its release on January 20th. This is in part because the dev team made a great product, but also because of the …
Read More »VIDEO: Call of Duty: Black Ops III tease sets the stage for upcoming shooter
Activision has released a live-action short that lays out the premise for this year’s Call of Duty instalment. Black Ops III will be set some 50 or so years in the future at a time when man is struggling with the morality and social impact of biological implants, prosthetics and …
Read More »Telltale confirms Marvel partnership
The increasingly busy Telltale games has announced yet another product line – this time in conjunction with Marvel Entertainment. We’ll be teaming up on the development of an upcoming Telltale game series project set to premiere in 2017,” the studio said in a brief message. Which of course leaves us …
Read More »DICE producer takes to Reddit to defend Star Wars Battlefront from online scepticism
A producer from EA studio DICE has chosen to address fans directly online who have questioned the studio’s strategy for the recently detailed Star Wars Battlefront. The game was officially unveiledat the Star Wars Celebration event in the US, but shortly after found itself coming in for criticism online for …
Read More »Angry Birds Stella hits 30m downloads
Downloads for Rovio’s Angry Birds Stella spin-off series have now hit 30m, the Finnish games giant has said. The release of Angry Birds: Stella Pop last month has helped it past the milestone, thanks to five million downloads of its own. The company will also soon launch an update to …
Read More »2015 arrival looking unlikely for Oculus Rift
It’s looking increasingly unlikely that the pioneering virtual reality headset Oculus Rift will launch this side of Christmas. We have not announced any specific plans for shipment volumes in 2015 related to Oculus," Facebook CFO David Wehner told analysts, as reported by Gamasutra. Oculus is very much in the development …
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