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Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has spoken publicly for the first time after the troubles between him and his employer first came to light. In what was described as a joint statement with Konami, Kojima said: "I want to reassure fans that I am 100 per cent involved and …
Read More »Wolfenstein: The Old Blood will arrive over a week later on disc
Bethesda has chosen not to release the digital and physical versions of Wolfenstein: The Old Blood at the same time. The game, a stand-alone prequel to last year’s Wolfenstein: The New Order, was previously due out on PS4, Xbox One and PC on May 5th. It will still release digitally …
Read More »There’s a new Driver game coming (it’s F2P, on smartphones and you drive speedboats)
The next game in the Driver series is almost certainly not what you expect. The original 1999 Driver is a cult hit but the series hit tough times in 2004 following the release of Driver 3. 2011’s Driver: San Francisco, however, surprised many critics – although few of them would …
Read More »Deep Down development has been "one step forwards, two steps back"
Capcom has admitted that development of its free-to-play online next-gen dungeon crawler Deep Down has been hard going. We’re still facing a ton of challenges. For starters, there’s the whole process of developing games for the newest next-generation consoles,” Capcom’s senior manager of consumer games development Teruki Miyashita said. Every …
Read More »Konami is retroactively removing Kojima’s name from old Metal Gear games
The apparent feud between Konami and Hideo Kojima is getting nastier. As spotted by Kotaku, mentions of both series creator Hideo Kojima and his studio Kojima Productions have not only been removed from all promotional material for Metal Gear Solid V but also from images of older titles on Konami’s …
Read More »Hearthstone on smartphones will cross-play with PC and tablets
The smartphone version of Hearthstone, due out this month, will not segment players from the existing user base. The game’s lead designer Eric Dodds confirmed to GameSpot that whenever users partake in multiplayer they could be facing off with someone on any platform. “It will be your exact same account, …
Read More »Over 60 games added to Nintendo’s European Stars Catalogue
UK and European Nintendo owners are now able to redeem their ill-fated Stars to claim free games. Nintendo announced the planned closure of Club Nintendo earlier this year, bringing with it the end of its existing loyalty program. Any unused Stars that users have accrued will be lost by the …
Read More »Konami confirms new Metal Gear and new development team
It appears that rumours of trouble in the Metal Gear Solid camp are real. Konami has confirmed via an official translation that it does plan on releasing further Metal Gear games post September’s Phantom Pain, and that it is hiring new developers for the project. Ominously, however, it only confirms …
Read More »Rare isn’t making a new Conker game, but Conker IS coming to Project Spark
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has confirmed that whatever it is Rare may be working on, it isn’t a new Conker game. However, Project Spark developer Team Dakota is working on a Conker Build Pack featuring assets that players can use to create their own Conker content and has also developed …
Read More »Star Wars Battlefront will feel the Force in public next month
EA’s long-awaited Star Wars Battlefront will finally be demonstrated to the public for the first time next month. Having previously promised more information this spring, the publisher has said that DICE’s title will feature at the Stars Wars Celebration event in California kicking off on April 16th. We could not …
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