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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, Square Enix’s complete reworking of the admitted mess that was FFXIV, has garnered over 1m registrations for its beta program. The publisher announced the milestone following the launch of its third and final weekend of beta testing for the game that kicked off late …
Read More »The Walking Dead 400 Days DLC lands this week
The latest episode in Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead series is set to arrive this week across all platforms. The Walking Dead 400 Days will cost $5 and IGN reports it will see a staggered release throughout the next few days on the game’s various platforms. The DLC sits aloof …
Read More »EA: Maxis continues to support Darkspore and its servers
Darkspore and its servers will continue to receive support from developer Maxis, according to EA. The publisher told Kotaku that yesterday’s damning statements surrounding the broken game’s outright abandonment by the studio came from a forum moderator not employed by EA, and that the assertions by the individual are not …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: June 23-29
Company of Heroes 2 is on top of Steam’s top ten selling products chartin consecutive weeks, finishing ahead of a slew of new releases and discounted titles. Activison’s licensed Deadpool game grabbed the runner-up spot, right ahead of the recently released indie roguelike Rogue Legacy – a pleasant surprise reaching …
Read More »Precursor Games founding member arrested on child pornography charges
Precursor Games founding member and former Silicon Knights director Ken McCulloch has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of involvement with child pornography. Polygon reports McCulloch was arrested by the Niagara Regional Police earlier this week, after detectives executed a search warrant at his home in St. Catharines, Ontario. …
Read More »EA: We want to reestablish Origin as a service for gamers
EA vice president Andrew Wilson wants to make it clear to gamers that the company’s digital distribution service Origin is for them, not EA. Speaking to Games Industry, Wilson spoke on the growing pains the service has gone through. "Over the years … there’ve been some permutations of that vision …
Read More »Kickstarter campaigns opening up to Canada later this summer
Kickstarter will open up its doors to Canada-based companies beginning later this summer. The crowdfunding site announced the news yesterday on its official site – revealing that the Canada-specific portion of the site will go live in the coming months, and opening up sign-ups for updates on the matter as …
Read More »Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon sells 500k copies
Ubisoft’s Far Cry 3 spin-off Blood Dragon has sold over 500k digital copies across PC, PSN and XBLA. CEO Yves Guillemot provided the figure in an interview with Games Industry, though didn’t mention how the units were split among platforms. Guillemot did, however, mention that Far Cry 3 sales were …
Read More »Rumour: Google developing Android-powered console and wristwatch
Google is reportedly readying itself for an entrance into the games hardware market. Anonymous sources familiar with the matter” have told The Wall Street Journal that Google is working on an Android-based video game console and wristwatch. The company intends to design and market the devices in-house, along the Nexus …
Read More »Nvidia Shield delayed on eve of launch due to ‘mechanical issue’
The Nvidia Shield console won’t be hitting shelves this month as originally planned, thanks to a mechanical issue in the eleventh hour. Nvidia’s Jason Paul posted on the company’s official blog, revealing that the Android-powered handheld device will miss its retail launch today and won’t be out until sometime in …
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