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PS3 racer Gran Turismo 6 is due out on December 6th. And it’s about 80 per cent completed. Should that be a cause for concern, considering Polyphony’s less than stellar track record in hitting release dates? The basic components are already complete, so overall I’d have to say about 80 …
Read More »Veteran game designer Gregg Barnett to speak at NGDC 2013
Gregg Barnett, creator of Commodore 64 classic VS fighting game The Way of the Exploding Fists, will speak at this year’s NASSCOM Game Developer Conference. Barnett was a key figure at Beam Software, which was later known as Melbourne House, before being acquired by Krome Studios. He is currently creative …
Read More »Blitz Games Studios ceases trading after 23 years
175 jobs have today been lost following the sad news that UK development stalwart Blitz Games has ceased trading. The company, which houses a number of divisions, was founded by the Oliver twins Andrew and Philip in 1990. In slightly better news, two of the studio’s current projects are said …
Read More »Size Five puts The Swindle on hold
The creator of Gun Monkeys and Ben There Dan That has put development of what was to be his next project on hold. ‘Steampunk cybercrime caper’ title The Swindle, first revealed in 2011, has been taken out of active development after developer Dan Marshall admitted that, put simply, he wasn’t …
Read More »Nintendo has received Wii U interest "from over 1,000 indie devs"
If the numbers coming from Nintendo are to be believed, indie development interest in Wii U is at astronomic levels. Nintendo’s manager of business development Dan Adelman reckons that the platform holder’s recently launched Wii U development website is attracting some serious interest. It’s been overwhelming. We’ve gotten probably over …
Read More »Fighter Lukkha out now for feature phones, soon on smartphones
UTV Indiagames today releases Fighter Lukkha, a free-to-play action-strategy game for feature phones. The game revolves around protagonist Lukkha and his gang members, who take on the underworld led by Todfod. Gameplay employs a mix of melee and short-range combat, and players will progressively unlock newer units for use in …
Read More »Alphaman available now for iOS, Android
The Awesome Game Studio’s arcade-styled educational puzzle game Alphaman is out now for iOS and Android. Alphaman mixes maze puzzles with spelling challenges through 11 maps, each with its own theme. The game tasks players with making Alphaman eat letters in the correct order for accurate spelling, failing which he …
Read More »Hines: Nintendo has lost its chance with third parties and Wii U
It may be too late to convince third parties to support Wii U, claims Bethesda’s VP of PR and marketing Pete Hines. Speaking toGameTrailers, Hines said Microsoft and Sony had been discussing hardware with developers for a long time and bringing them in on the process to know what to …
Read More »Vlambeer’s Rami Ismail to speak at NGDC 2013
Rami Ismail, one half of influential indie developer Vlambeer, will speak at this year’s NASSCOM Game Developer Conference. Vlambeer is the team behind the critical and commercial hit Ridiculous Fishing. The studio was also in the news a few months ago when its next game, Luftrausers, was cloned by a …
Read More »N-Space forced to abandon Nintendo due to lack of publisher demand
The CEO of Skylanders: Giants and Swap Force co-developer N-Space has said that his studio currently has no Nintendo games in development for the first time in a decade. The studio, which has ported and developed a host of titles from the likes of Activision and Disney to Nintendo machines …
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