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The publisher of Homefront: The Revolution, Deep Silver, has said that it should have waited to release the shooter. Speaking to MCV, the firm admitted that the title was ‘less of a success’ than it had hoped, and said that it had learnt a lot from Homefront’s release. The shooter …
Read More »Busy May could boost summer sales, says Homefront’s dev
The busy May release schedule could result in healthy sales throughout the summer. Speaking to MCV, the narrative designer for Homefront: The Revolution, Stephen Rhodes, said that many people will be unable to afford all of the games launching this month. Thus, consumers will continue to buy them throughout the …
Read More »Dambuster vows to improve Homefront: The Revolution’s performance
Developer Dambuster has vowed to improve the technical performance of new release Homefront: The Revolution. The game has been criticised for a number of bugs and, on PS4 in particular, a sluggish framerate. It currently has a 53 per cent rating on Metacritic. It has been a long road for …
Read More »The Big Game – Homefront: The Revolution
As a franchise, Homefront tells a pretty bleak story – and I’m not referring to the series’ narrative of the USA being invaded by Korea. The first Homefront, a hugely ambitious release for THQ, launched to mediocre reviews (70 on Metacritic) in March 2011 and saw publisher THQ’s stock price …
Read More »Could 2016 be Deep Silver’s biggest year yet?
In the last five years, Deep Silver has elevated itself into the publishing big leagues. 2011’s zombie smash hit Dead Island put the company on the map worldwide. Then two years later, the company made a number of high-profile IP acquisitions from a bankrupt THQ. Deep Silver managed to get …
Read More »Games retail braces for hectic May release period
UK games stores are facing one of the most congested spring release slates in history. May in particular is rammed with six major titles arriving within four weeks: Battleborn, Uncharted 4, Doom, Homefront: The Revolution, Overwatch and Mirror’s Edge Catalyst will all be fighting for gamer attention. We will be …
Read More »Crytek UK wasn’t paying wages and had lost a third of staff prior to Deep Silver buyout
The extent of the troubles that had embroiled the studio formerly known as Free Radical has been revealed. Speaking to The Guardian, Dambuster Studios studio head Hasit Zala revealed that things had gotten pretty dark for the Homefront: The Revolution developer by the summer of 2014. Crytek ran into financial …
Read More »Homefront: The Revolution to have free DLC, but also microtransactions
A year’s worth of free DLC is the reward for Homefront: The Revolution buyers. The price? An upfront fee for the game and multiplayer microtransactions. As a result, there will be no Season Pass for the shooter and all post-release content will be made available to all players. But those …
Read More »Release date confirmed for Homefront: The Revolution
Yes, the rumours were correct. Deep Silver has announced that Homefront: The Revolution will be released on PS4, Xbox One and PC in the UK on May 20th. It will arrive in the US on May 17th. A couple of retail ‘leaks’ had already appeared to have pointed to a …
Read More »Retailers list Homefront: The Revolution for May
May is looking increasingly likely to be the month that the delayed sequel to 2011 shooter Homefront is finally released. Xbox Achievements caught wind of a reservation card for the game being sold by US retailer Target. That had a release date of May 17th 2016 printed on it. Now …
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