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Nintendo has reiterated that it will make money on each NX unit sold. The firm traditionally makes money off of its hardware business, in contrast to its rivals which loses money on the consoles in the hope they’ll make the money back from the software. However, with Wii U – …
Read More »Activision confirms Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Modern Warfare Remastered
Activision has confirmed that its next Call of Duty game will be called Infinite Warfare. The game is due out on November 4th and will go ‘beyond Earth’ and take place in the wider solar system. The game is being created by Infinity Ward, the studio that created the franchise …
Read More »History Lesson: The story of Worms
In the early 1990s, certain specialist games magazines liked to encourage its readers to try their hands at making games. Amiga Format in particular contained programming information and ran game development contests for its readers (which at it peaks totalled over 170,000 a month). Andy Davidson, an A-level student in …
Read More »Curve’s new business development manager will be signing indie games at Interface next week
Rising games publisher Curve has recruited John Vega as its new business development manager. Vega will be attending Interface next week, and is on the hunt for new indie games for Cuve to publish. Vega joins from Playjam where he managed publisher and developer relations. He acquired over 100 titles …
Read More »And so our story ends: Lionhead has officially closed
Fable makers Lionhead has officially closed. In March, Microsoft announced it would cancel Fable Legends and that it was in consultation with the Guildford studio over whether to close it or not. The consultation has ended and Lionhead will officially close. Microsoft said: "We have reached the decision to close …
Read More »The Interface indie conference is really great and you should come along
We are probably setting ourselves up for a fall here, but we think the Interface conference might just be the best conference we’ve ever done. Interface – if you’ve never been – is an independent games development event. The main part of the show is a meeting system, where indie …
Read More »How Xbox 360 changed everything
Back in 2004, Xbox VP Peter Moore spent two days pretending to be PlayStation CEO Ken Kutaragi. During the planning stages of Xbox 360, Moore (who now works at EA) and his fellow Microsoft employees – including former Xbox president Robbie Bach and chief technology officer J Allard – had …
Read More »Julian Gollop’s new game will be a cross between old and new XCOM
The upcoming PC strategy game Phoenix Point will merge the gameplay of the new XCOM titles, with those from the 1990s. That’s the one piece of information that creator Julian Gollop shared with MCV whilst reminiscing about the origins of the series. Gallop was part of the team that created …
Read More »History Lesson: The story of XCOM
Behold, the power of games testers. Back in 1993, Harlow-based devs Julian Gollop and his brother Nick were deep in development on UFO: Enemy Unknown – the first game in the XCOM series. Unfortunately the publisher they were working for, MicroProse, was bought out by Spectrum HoloByte. And the new …
Read More »Fred Prego on GAMEFest and its showdown with EGX
Last week, Gamer Network CEO Rupert Loman declared his disappointment in GAME. He was referring to the retailer’s new GAMEFest event, a consumer expo that will take place four weeks before his own EGX show… and at the same venue (Birmingham NEC). Upon making some allusions to the fact the …
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