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Xbox Live manager and XNA framework developer Boyd Multerer has announced his exit from Microsoft. Gamasutra reports on Multerer’s departure, which comes following 20 years of work with the company. He initially started as a contractor with Microsoft and was later brought on as a full-time software developer. The industry …
Read More »Steam posts new concurrent user record to close out 2014
Steam users came out in droves during the holiday break, with Valve’s digital distribution service scoring a new record in total concurrent users over the past weekend. Blue’s News reports Steam’s game and player stats page showed users peaking out at 8,357,541 on Sunday, December 28th at one point. DOTA …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: December 21-27
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has emerged the victor in Steam’s best sellers chart for the last full week of 2014, beating out Far Cry 4 for the top spot during the digital distributor’s ongoing end of the year sale. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Skyrim and South Park: The Stick of Truth …
Read More »Halo: Master Chief Collection patch adds Halo 4 Spartan Ops, new fixes
343 Industries has released a new update for Halo: The Master Chief Collection, adding new bug fixes along with the Spartan Ops co-op campaign from Halo 4. 343 explained in October – ahead of the game’s troubled launch – that the Halo 4 Spartan Ops content would miss being part …
Read More »Destiny approaching 13m players
Bungie has released a slew of statistics for Destiny, revealing that nearly 13m people have played the online FPS. As of the studio’s post earlier today, the game boasts 12,869,066 players across Playstation and Xbox console platforms that have created 22,932,276 guardians and logged 872,404,449 hours collectively. Destiny’s Crota’s End …
Read More »Maniac Mansion creators’ Thimbleweed Park exceeds Kickstarter goal
Maniac Mansion creators Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick have successfully crowdfunded their new adventure game Thimbleweed Park, raising more than a quarter of a million dollars over the campaign’s funding goal. The recently concluded Kickstarter effort – and true spirtual successor” to Maniac Mansion and other Lucasfilm Games from decades …
Read More »Tales from the Borderlands arrives on iOS and Android
Tales from the Borderlands – Telltale’s episodic point-and-click adventure game take on Gearbox’s FPS franchise – has launched for iOS and Android devices. Tales from the Borderlands first episode ‘Zero Sum’ is out now on Google Play and the Apple App Store. The mobile edition is available for $4.99 on …
Read More »Kerbal Space Program educational app in development for use in schools
Hit Steam Early Access title Kerbal Space Program is receiving an educational update dubbed KerbalEdu, an application developed specifically for teachers and students. The game’s developer Squad has partnered with Finland-based TeacherGaming – an indie studio focused on education, and also the company behind the development of MinecraftEdu. A single …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: December 14-20
Discounted titles abound in Steam’s latest weekly top ten results, with Dark Souls II emerging as the victor ahead of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. As you might have guessed or heard, Steam’s Winter Sale kicked off late last week and already it’s had a major impact on the …
Read More »Lords of the Fallen due out next year for Android, iOS
Action-RPG Lords of the Fallen is being developed for a 2015 release on mobile platforms. "Console and PC RPG [Lords of the Fallen] will be released on iOS and Android devices in 2015,” a post on the game’s official Twitter account reads. It’s not clear if the game in question …
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