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Witcher 3 Game Director Joins Cyberpunk 2077 Team
Cyberpunk 2077 There are few developers around at the moment who hold the level of respect that CD Projekt Red does. Admittedly, they pretty much only have the Witcher series currently under their belt, but given how awesome that has been, it is no criticism. With the development of Cyberpunk…
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Activision/Blizzard Sack 780 People as Record Profits Reported
Activision/Blizzard Sack 780 Employees Last weekend reports emerged that Activision/Blizzard was preparing to lay-off a significant number of staff members as concerns were growing over the companies performance. At the time, exact numbers were not known. Early indications, however, suggested that around 200 employees would be imminently let go. Well,…
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System Shock 3 Publishing Rights Get Sold Back To Developer
System Shock 3 System Shock 3 was originally announced back in December 2015 and over the last 3 years, if we’re being brutally honest, we’ve seen very little news surrounding the development of the game. In fact, the proposed remake of the original has garnered so much attention that I…
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Blizzard Activision Reportedly Set to Axe Hundreds Of Jobs
Blizzard Activision There has been more and more evidence in the last 6 months that financially, Blizzard Activision (or Activision Blizzard, if you prefer) might be entering a period of financial difficulty. This isn’t just idle speculation either. There has been more than a few confirmed matters that have a direct…
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Only 18% Of Game Developers Are Working On Next-Gen Titles
Only 18% Of Developers Are Working On Next-Gen Titles By the end of this year, we fully expect both Sony and Microsoft to officially announce their next-generation of home consoles with an anticipated release date of late 2020. This is, of course, subject to rumour and speculation. In a report…
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Orange Pi 3 H6 Now Available with Up to 2GB RAM
Raspberry Pi Competitor Gets an Update A new open-spec Orange Pi 3 is now available sporting the Allwinner H6 SoC. This of course has significant upgrades feature-wise from the Orange Pi Lite 2. The most notable of which is a 2GB LPDDR3 option for a little bit more. The Allwinner…
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Bungie Hints At Adding Destiny 1 Content To Destiny 2
Bungie Hints At Upcoming Destiny Content One of the biggest (and unexpected) gaming news stories of the year so far has to be Bungie purchasing the rights to Destiny from Activision. Admittedly, there were plenty of rumours that the most recent game in the franchise had not done particularly well…
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Gearbox CEO Accused Of Taking Secret £9.3M Bonus
Gearbox CEO Accused Of Secret £9.3M Bonus Things at Gearbox Software do not appear to be going too well at the moment as the companies former chief lawyer and CEO are currently in a legal battle against each other than seems to be turning nasty. A month after Gearbox issued…
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Blizzard Co-Founder Mike Morhaime To Leave In April
Mike Morhaime Set To Leave Blizzard In October 2018, Mike Morhaime (co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment) announced that he would be stepping down as company president. At the time, he announced that while he was relinquishing the role, he would remain in an advisory position. It seems, however, that this time has…
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Amiga 3000 Used At Psygnosis Is Up For Sale On eBay
Amiga 3000 For Sale The Amiga 3000 was a relatively popular system in the early 90s. It was, admittedly, a lot more pricey than say, for example, the Amiga 500, but one has turned up on eBay which has more than a little interest in terms of the history of…
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UK Games Industry Forms Official Union
UK Games Industry Forms Union For many, the prospect of being a video game developer sounds like a great job. I mean, you get to make games for a living! How awesome does that sound! The reality is, however, very far removed from the fact. Well, if you go to…
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Unity 2018.3 Released With Over 2000 Improvements!
Unity 2018.3 Released Unity is, without a doubt, one of the most popular game making tools currently on the market. With its relatively easy interface and literally thousands of pre-supplied assets, it’s a great tool to learn if you want to get into the game making industry. It seems, however,…
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Next-Gen Xbox Development Kit Is Codenamed ‘Anaconda’
Xbox Development Kit Is Codenamed ‘Anaconda’ Despite there being pretty much nothing in terms of confirmed news, we are undoubtedly going to start hearing more and more about the next generation Sony and Microsoft consoles throughout 2019. Every indication suggests that development is already underway. For example, it already seems…
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Interview: Leisure Suit Larry Dev Bares All To eTeknix
Crazy Bunch Discuss Leisure Suit Larry! I must admit, when I heard a new Leisure Suit Larry game was on the way, I had my doubts. As a huge long-term fan of the series, I had been more than a little disappointed with the last couple entries. They lacked any…
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Game Developer Tech Demo Video Shows Zombie Blender
Game Developer Tech Demo Shows Zombie Blender We have, on several occasions, seen what is referred to as ‘technical demos’ released. These are often created to showcase a particular component or innovation in a product or design in an attempt to (sort of) blow our minds a little. It is…
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