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Increased diversity appears to be the name of the game from Capcom, which has detailed how it intends to aim for the crown of top global publisher. Videogamer reports that the company has vowed to bolster its development capabilities with investment and hires, and to strike out into genres it …
Read More »The original Forza Horizon is being retired
Forza Horizon 3 arrives tomorrow (September 27th) but its release will bring with it the demise of the series’ earliest instalment. The game’s official blog has revealed what it describes as Forza Horizon’s EOL (End of Life), which is scheduled for October 20th. On October 20, the original Forza Horizon …
Read More »Red Dwarf XI gets its own game
iOS and Android owners are now able, should they choose, to download a new game based on the 11th series of cult UK sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf. It’s even called Red Dwarf XI: The Game, lest there be any confusion. The UKTV, Grant Naylor Productions and GameDigits product tries to …
Read More »Ubisoft is 2016’s best-selling publisher
French publisher Ubisoft has outsold all of its competitors across a number of key territories so far in 2016. It says that NPD data shows that is has for six months been the top publisher by sales year-to-date in 2016. This applies to Europe, the US, Canada and Australia. In …
Read More »Ubisoft Publishing is the company’s new book venture
Having previously hooked up with others for its print ambitions, Ubisoft has announced its own book publishing operations. Ubisoft Publishing will release its debut item, Assassin’s Creed: Heresy, on November 15th. Thematically it stays close to the games, interweaving a modern day Templar tale with a 14th century plot involving …
Read More »Yahoo suffers world’s biggest data breach
Around half a billion Yahoo accounts were compromised in a security breach in 2014, it has been confirmed. The hackers, whom Yahoo has said were state-sponsored, accessed names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and even security questions and answers, as were encrypted passwords. The news could very well cast …
Read More »Ubisoft on NX: Nintendo has learned from the Wii U
The boss of Ubisoft has dropped further hints about Nintendo’s NX strategy. What we see is that Nintendo has learned from the Wii U,” CEO Yves Guillemot told IGN when asked if the NX was a move away from the Wii U and back toward the mass market appeal of …
Read More »Rez Infinite will boast 4K visuals on PS4 Pro
The developer of the PS4-bound Rez remake has said the game will get a big VR performance boost when hooked up to a PS4 Pro. Rez Infinite launches alongside the PSVR headset next month. And while it will be perfectly compatible with current PS4s, Polygon reports that when hooked up …
Read More »Iceland’s football team out of FIFA 17 after payment row
FIFA 17 will not feature the likenesses of the Icelandic national team after both parties could not agree on a fee. That’s according to the BBC, which reports that the KSI claims to have refused an offer of 11.5k from EA for the rights to the license, believing it to …
Read More »Adrift dev urges fans to ‘demand’ PSVR port
The studio behind virtual reality space adventure Adrift – sorry, Adr1ft – has called on fans to put pressure on the powers that be to have the game greenlit for PlayStation VR. Adrift was released on PC earlier this year and then on PS4 in the summer. However, many were …
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