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Marvel and Square Enix Join Forces for Multi-Game Partnership
Marvel Entertainment and Square Enix has announced a new multi-year, multi-game licensing agreement, which will see them develop and publish new games based on Marvel Super Heroes. The games will begin with The Avengers, which will be crafted by Crystal Dynamics, the award-winning team behind the Tomb Raider series, as…
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Dutch Developer Built Backdoors into Thousands of Sites
A Dutch web developer was found to have built backdoors into thousands of sites he built, which he then used to steal user credentials for fraudulent means, including online shopping and gambling, according to Dutch police. The unnamed 35-year-old man from Leeuwarden in The Netherlands used these details to open…
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YouTube Channel Requests $100,000-$150,000 Per Video to Cover Games
The rise of influencers on YouTube and Twitch has dramatically changed the gaming industry. Some argue, it’s caused the end of print media and made traditional journalists become irrelevant. From a marketing perspective, having a popular YouTube personality with millions of loyal subscribers offering coverage can dramatically improve sales. Recently,…
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Sleeping Dogs Developer United Front Games is Closing Down
Sleeping Dogs was a great game, but it seems it just wasn’t enough to keep the lights on at United Front Games. The team had been working on an open world expansion for Sleeping Dogs called Triad Wars. However, the free-to-play expansion never left the closed beta and was eventually…
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DRM is a Waste of Time Say Shadow Warrior 2 Developers
Shadow Warrior 2 is off to a great start, not only for bringing some new rendering technology courtesy of Nvidia, but also for being a damn good game! Beaming reviews are flooding in, showing that if you take the time to polish your games to run great and make the…
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8 Developers Leave Kerbal Space Program Studio ‘Squad’
It seems that a large part of the Kerbal Space Program team has departed on a new mission, as eight members of Developer ‘Squad’ left the company simultaneously this week. While it seems almost obvious, this has led to the belief that update 1.2 of Kerbal Space Program may be…
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Titanfall 2 Developer Hounded by Xbox Fanboys After Posting PS4 Disc Image
Game developers have an incredibly stressful job trying to meet deadlines and can encounter some difficult situations when dealing with passionate members of the public. Recently, Titanfall 2’s producer received a huge backlash from Xbox fans after posting an image of Titanfall 2’s game disk on the PlayStation 4. It’s…
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Goat Simulator Dev Strikes Development Deal With PewDiePie
Felix Kjellberg, better known as the YouTube star PewDiePie, looks to be moving into the world of gaming development, again, having just signed a deal with Armin Ibrisagic, one of the key designers for Goat Simulator and his new development studio, DoubleMoose. No specific games have been announced as part…
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RimWorld Ditches Free Steam Keys Due to Fraud
With more and more games coming out, it’s not hard to see piracy and fraud becoming even bigger problems for small time companies. This has affected RimWorld developer Tynan Sylvester , effectively forcing the company to stop offering Steam keys with the external purchases of the game thanks to “refund requests” costing…
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Devs Discuss PS4 Neo And Xbox One Scorpio Development
Consoles have traditionally adopted a fairly lengthy development cycle and single specification to maintain simplicity for the consumer. Of course, the lack of hardware upgrades makes it challenge to improve graphical fidelity through a console generation. Any enhanced visuals rely on optimisation and devs learning how to eke out every…
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Postal Redux Dev Claims Microsoft is Lacking in its “Commitment to Gamers”
Prior to the Xbox One’s release, Microsoft managed to forge a huge player base and competed with Sony despite being the major underdog. While part of this is down to Sony’s mistakes with expensive hardware and the overly complicated Cell architecture, you have to give Microsoft credit for the Xbox 360’s…
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Spintires Removed From Steam
Ever felt like going off-road and bringing that large truck of yours into the wilderness to enjoy the outdoors? Spintires looked to do just that giving you the ability to enjoy an off-road driving experience based in Russia. The game may be no more though as it has now been…
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Developer “Guarantees Nintendo NX Won’t Have Third-Party Support”
Nintendo’s upcoming console codenamed, ‘NX’ is shrouded in secrecy, and no-one really knows what the latest device will entail. There are various rumours stemmed from patents which suggest the product will be a hybrid mobile/home console unit and create a brand new experience. Unfortunately, Nintendo’s previous effort, the Wii U, fared…
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Lead Behind Apple Car Leaves Company
Its been on the cards for a while that Apple has been looking at making a car. They’ve even gone so far as to invoke the wrath of Elon Musk by taking in staff straight from Tesla. The Apple Car project hasnot been shown off to the public yet, but it’s…
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Portugal’s Piracy Blocklist Censors US Indie Developer
Portuguese internet server providers currently have a voluntary agreement with anti-piracy groups and began blocking hundreds of websites which allegedly host links to copyrighted content. This allows copyright holders to easily add new pirate sites to the blocklist without requiring any jurisdiction from a court. More specifically, websites should contain a minimum…
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