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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines fan remake Project Vaulderie has been shut down by Eve Online developer CCP Games. According to the group behind Project Vaulderie, the studio – which currently holds the rights to the action RPG franchise – has issued a Cease & Desist letter regarding any further …
Read More »Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin confirmed for PS4, Xbox One
Dark Souls II is heading to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles next year, publisher Bandai Namco has announced. The re-release of From Software’s challenging action-RPG sequel will launch on Sony and Microsoft’s latest hardware in April 2015. The title will carry new in-game events, item descriptions and additional NPCs …
Read More »Game of Thrones Steam pre-order page confirms December release
The first episode of Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series will indeed launch next month, according to the game’s pre-order page on Steam. The new listing of the game’s PC and Mac versions on the distributor reveals specs, along with a December launch window for the first of the …
Read More »Ori and the Blind Forest delayed to 2015
Microsoft’s Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC platformer Ori and the Blind Forest will not make its previously scheduled 2014 release date. Furthermore, the Xbox One and PC versions will arrive before the Xbox 360 SKU. While we’re extremely excited for all of you to get your hands on Ori …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: November 16-22
Far Cry 4 has proclaimed victory on the latest Steam weekly top ten sellers chart. The latest installment in the Far Cry franchise beat out surprise indie hit This War of Mine for peak position, with Ubisoft’s discounted Far Cry Franchise Pack making its mark yet again in fifth. Call …
Read More »Far Cry 4 PC complainers accidentally reveal themselves to be pirates
PC gamers complaining about the lack of a specific function in the PC version of Far Cry 4 have been revealed to be pirates. A number of complainants took to the likes of Reddit and Twitter to complain the Ubisoft’s game lacked a FOV (field of view) slider – this …
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Twitch streams top 6m unique viewers
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the most streamed launch week console game of 2014, video platform Twitch has announced. 75,000 unique broadcasters streamed the game for a combined total of 327m minutes during its launch week, while 6m unique viewers watched the available content more than 26m times. "Since …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: November 9-15
Football Manager 2015 has climbed to the top of Steam’s latest weekly top ten best sellers chart. The latest release in the sports simulation franchise finished ahead of the surging Far Cry Franchise Pack, with pre-orders for Far Cry 4 driving the upcoming title to an appearance on the list …
Read More »Ubisoft investigating Assassin’s Creed: Unity issues for AMD PC owners
Aside from the widespread issues affecting the console versions of Assassin’s Creed: Unity, the PC version is also being hit by apparent performance concerns. Ubisoft has said that those running either an AMD processor and graphics card are having trouble sustaining decent framerates at decent settings. There have also been …
Read More »Six year old RPG Valkyria Chronicles tops Steam sellers list
Sega’s PC version of PS3 RPG Valkyria Chronicles has ‘blown all predictions out of the water’, the publisher has claimed. The game release on Steam yesterday and was at one stage apparently the most downloaded game on the platform. Currently it sits in third place behind fellow Sega title Football …
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