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Dead or Alive 5: Last Round buyers are being warned of a save data corrupting bug. Developer Team Ninja has told users not to play tutorial levels 40.8 and 40.9 as doing so will freeze the game and, worse still, corrupt save data. The bug applies to the German, Spanish, …
Read More »Jim Ryan: GamerGate was "absolutely horrific"
The president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has said that his company has a responsibility to demonstrate that the sort of misogynistic behaviour demonstrated in the GamerGate campaign will not be tolerated”. More females are playing games now than ever before,” Jim Ryan told Metro. I think the …
Read More »Sony can’t guarantee free PlayStation Plus DriveClub will ever arrive
The free version of DriveClub for PlayStation Plus members may never be released, Sony has admitted. That’s still being looked at,” Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president and CEO Jim Ryan told Metro when asked about the release. When pressed on whether he could guarantee” that it will be released, Ryan …
Read More »eSports secures Norwegian TV spot
Norway’s largest commercial broadcaster TV 2 has agreed to broadcast a full eSports season. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends, and StarCraft 2 will form the initial offer, Gosu Gamers reports. The program is being run in conjunction with events company House of Nerds. The majority of the broadcasts will …
Read More »Allegations surround identity of Hearthstone pro MagicAmy
ESL Legendary Series winner Hyerim ‘MagicAmy’ Lee is not a real person, according to accusation flying around the internet today. The Daily Dot reports that MagicAmy, who is signed to Andrey ‘Reynad’ Yanyuk’s team Tempo Storm, was accused in a Reddit post of being an online persona shared by multiple …
Read More »Spintires digs itself out of a ditch, gets development back on track
Digital indie PC hit Spintires has been hauled out of its development limbo. The game dabbled with the top of the Steam charts last summer and even passed the 100k sales barrier. However, a dispute between developer Pavel Zagrebelnyy and publisher Oovee saw work on the Kickstarted project grind to …
Read More »Schafer: Criticism of Molyneux is ‘way out of proportion’
Monkey Island and Grim Fandango creator Tim Schafer has criticised the recent treatment of Peter Molyneux online and in the press. I’d like to send our support to friend and fellow developer Peter Molyneux,” he said in a Broken Age Kickstarter update video, which you can see below. In the …
Read More »PlayStation placed front and centre in new Sony business plan
Sony is to spin-off many of its businesses as PlayStation, Sony Pictures and image sensors are being repositioned as the core of its new structure. The company intends to split its audio and video (TV) divisions from its main operations in the same way it did its Vaio PC business. …
Read More »Capcom has made big changes to Deep Down
Free-to-play PS4 RPG Deep Down IS still in development, but has undergone some big changes since it was first unveiled. It looks like Deep Down will take just a little longer,” Capcom’s consumer games development boss Yoshinori Ono told 4Gamer, as reported by Siliconera. It also looks like some people …
Read More »Grow Home could hit consoles if success is found on PC
Ubisoft’s experimental PC Grow Home could yet brand out onto other platforms. Want to see Grow Home on consoles?” game artist at Ubisoft Reflections Jack Couvela said. We have to prove ourselves on PC first, so tell every PC gamer you know they have to buy it!” He also said …
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