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Relic’s strategy sequel Company of Heroes 2 jumps to the top of Steam’s top ten sellers list ahead of its launch on the platform this week. The game shares the top spot with the Legendary Edition of Skyrim, while Dead Island Riptide and the original title’s Game of the Year …
Read More »Fish: Microsoft won’t let me develop for their console, but Sony will
Fez 2 won’t land on any of Microsoft’s platforms because the company doesn’t want it there, creator Phil Fish has stated. Speaking with Polygon, Fish explained that Polytron has no plans to release the sequel on Xbox consoles based on Microsoft’s no self-publishing policy. With Microsoft they’ve made it painfully …
Read More »Eidos confirms Thief for current consoles alongside next-gen launch
Eidos Montreal’s Thief reboot will launch simultaneously on PC, current and next-gen consoles when it arrives next year. The studio’s community manager Adam Badke and the title’s senior producer Stephane Roy announced the info as part of a developer video. The core gameplay of Thief on current-gen and next-gen consoles …
Read More »Skulls of the Shogun developer: Microsoft too incompetent to be evil
Skulls of the Shogun developer Plush Apocalypse Productions has sounded off about the studio’s troubling experience with Microsoft Studios. The game had an exclusivity deal on the game for Xbox 360 and Windows 8 phones and tablets, a deal that’s near its end. Plush Apocalypse’s Borut Pfeifer apparently felt the …
Read More »Report: MLG walks away from StarCraft II WCS hosting contract
Major League Gaming will no longer host Blizzard’s North American StarCraft II World Championship Series. PCGamesN reports MLG has backed out of its agreement with the developer, and at least one man in the know believes it’s because of a lack of support from Blizzard. After coordinating on WCS America …
Read More »GameStick launch pushed to August over UI work
GameStick, Playjam’s android-powered console, has been delayed again due to issues regarding the development of the user interface. In a post on the project’sKickstarter page, the developer explained that ironing out the hardware’s UI is taking longer than expected. It has taken a while longer to prepare the review UI …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed IV PC arriving late to the launch party
Ubisoft has revealed that the PC version of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag will arrive a few weeks” after the game’s launch on consoles. GameSpot reports on a video interview where Ubisoft game director Ashraf Ismail confirms that PC gamers will have to wait a bit deeper into the holiday …
Read More »Appeals court sides with Nintendo in Wii Balance Board patent lawsuit
Nintendo has prevailed in the US Court of Appeals to uphold the company’s victory in a patent-infringement case involving the Wii Balance Board. The Court of Appeals agreed with the lower court that Nintendo did not infringe IA Labs’ patent, and also upheld the lower court’s ruling that IA Labs …
Read More »Sony CEO believes electronics and entertainment arms should remain unified
Sony president Kazuo Hirai hopes to keep the corporation’s entertainment and electronics divisions unified going forward. A Nikkei report reveals Hirai’s stance against the split – despite significant noise over the past several weeks that the company is heavily considering just the opposite. It was also reported a few weeks …
Read More »XCOM: Enemy Unknown hits iOS this week at a relatively beefy price
Firaxis XCOM: Enemy Unknown hits iOS devices this Thursday, and it doesn’t intend to fit into the mobile platform pricing mold. The game will run for $19.99 and works on iPad 2 and beyond, iPhone4S and beyond, and fifth generation iPod touch devices. The relatively high price shouldn’t come as …
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