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Sega Sammy Holdings will reportedly acquire publisher Atlus’ parent company Index later this year. According to a Nikkei Japan report translated by Gematsu, the deal will be worth roughly $140m and take place sometime in November. Reports last month had Sega among 20 individual companies competing to purchase Atlus outright …
Read More »Blizzard to remove Diablo III Auction House
Blizzard has u-turned on its declaration to keep the real-money and gold auction houses as a fixture in Diablo III, announcing that both will be removed in March 2014. Speaking in a development update, production director John Hight and game director Josh Mosqueira revealed Blizzard’s plans to remove the controversial …
Read More »Gamefly launches digital store
Rental subscription service Gamefly has opened up its new online distribution store, Gamefly Digital. The new digital distribution outfit offers more than 2,500 titles, specifically featuring publisher and genre collection stores” including EA, Rockstar, Valve, Bethesda and Indie Games, among others. GameFly is celebrating the company’s new arm with a …
Read More »UPDATE: Monster Hunter 4 ships 2m copies
Capcom has shipped 2m Monster Hunter 4 units out to retailers just days after its arrival on Japanese shelves. The publisher announced the milestone for the latest effort in its popular action RPG, claiming that the game has had more shipments in its first week than any other third-party 3DS …
Read More »Report: Grand Theft Auto V PS4 and PC versions unearthed from 360 code
Mention of both the PC and PS4 versions of Grand Theft Auto V have supposedly been dug up in the game’s Xbox 360 source code. Cinema Blend reports on the alleged discovery of the platform mentions in the code, with specific mention of Orbis” – the operating system for Playstation …
Read More »Newell teases Linux-based Steam Box announcement coming next week
Valve plans to peel the curtain back on its first entry into the hardware market sometime next week, company head Gabe Newell has revealed. Speaking at LinuxCon, Newell preached to the choir regarding the event’s titular operating system – stating that Linux is the future of gaming, as well as …
Read More »Critically acclaimed indie Gone Home hits 50,000 units sold
Indie studio The Fullbright Company has announced its debut effort Gone Home has sold 50,000 copies prior to the conclusion of its launch month. Posting on Fullbright’s website, co-founder Steve Gaynor revealed the milestone – along with news that the game has been selected as a finalist for upcoming indie …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: September 8-14
Total War: Rome II maintains its lead ahead of Payday 2 and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, on Steam’s latest weekly top selling products chart. While Rome II and Payday 2 continued to hold their positions, the sequel to Amnesia made a big leap up the list from ninth to …
Read More »Hyperkin opens pre-orders for $99.99 RetroN 5
Hardware maker Hyperkin has opened up pre-orders for its RetroN 5, a console that supports cartridges from nine different classic consoles and handhelds. Amazon lists the device at $99.99, with a launch date of October 31st. The console plays NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, GBA, Sega Genesis, Famicom, …
Read More »Valve introduces Xbox One-like family sharing feature to Steam
Valve has announced a new Steam Family Sharing program for its digital distribution platform, allowing multiple Steam accounts access a library of games on an authorized computer. The functionality is very similar to that initially proposed by Microsoft for Xbox One before the console’s online features were largely stripped as …
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