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Nintendo of America’s senior marketing and licensing manager Damon Baker has explained the decision not to release the standard New 3DS in the region. The New 3DS and New 3DS XL both arrived last week in the UK but only the larger model was released in the US. Look, the …
Read More »The Stomping Land designer quits as Kickstarter game looks dead and buried
Kickstarter has received another PR blow with what appears to be the abandonment of another successfully funded game. Vlad Konstantinov, who was responsible for the game’s dinosaur models, has quit work on the game after lead developer Alex ‘Jig’ Fundora stopped communicating with him. I’m sad to say this but …
Read More »UPDATED: ESA denies agreeing to Obama’s Cybersecurity Protection Act
UPDATE: The ESA has told MCV that Vice’s story is incorrect and that it "hasn’t agreed to full datasharing or signed on with the Cybersecurity Protection Act". The headline has been amended to reflect this. UPDATE 2: The official fact sheet on theWhite House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection …
Read More »The UK is getting its first dedicated eSports arena next month
Gfinity has confirmed that the UK’s first dedicated eSports arena will be opened next month. It will be called the Gfinity Arena and will be located inside Fulham Broadway’s Vue Cinema. It will be able to accommodate up to 600 spectators. There will also be an eSports section on the …
Read More »Phantom Dust Xbox One developer shut down
Darkside Games, the studio working on the Xbox One reboot of Phantom Dust, has been closed. Kotaku reports that around 50 people have lost their jobs, with studio sources claiming that the move was as a result of the game’s cancellation. Phantom Dust was to be Darkside’s first solo project …
Read More »Terraria: Otherworld in development for PC and Mac
Re-Logic and Engine Software have announced a game that they describe as NOT Terraria 2”. It’s called Terraria: Otherworld and is set in an alternate dimension within the Terraria universe”. The game is designed to expand upon the existing title, exploring what might have been, and approaching gameplay in a …
Read More »Steam chat is censoring links to a torrent site
Valve appears to be automatically monitoring the blocking the content of some Steam chat. Torrent Freak reports that mentions of KickassTorrents made via Steam’s in-built instant messaging tool are not delivered to their intended recipient. However, rather than censoring out the name of the site the message itself is completely …
Read More »At least one publisher still loves Metacritic (it’s Nintendo)
Metacritic may be increasing falling out of favour, but Satoru Iwata is having none of it. The Nintendo boss dedicated a significant part of his investor briefing to talking up the reviews aggregator, highlighting the success that Nintendo is currently enjoying with the critics. Foreign website Metacritic.com is well known …
Read More »The Last Guardian IS still in development, Sony insists
Sony has said that The Last Guardian is still in development, despite its US trademark expiration. It was reported this morning that Sony has allowed the US trademark for the game to expire. However, the platform holder has told Videogamer, GameSpot and GameBlog that the game has not been cancelled, …
Read More »Ready at Dawn concedes to pressure and clarifies The Order: 1886 gameplay length
Having said that it would not discuss rumours about the length of The Order: 1886’s campaign, developer Ready at Dawn has moved to address the concerns. A gameplay video posted online yesterday showed the game being played from beginning to end in five and half hours. Prior to its release …
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