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First Xbox One backwards compatibility list includes 104 games
Xbox fans rejoiced at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) when the console maker announced that it would be adding backwards compatibility support to the Xbox One, allowing players to bring some of their favorite Xbox 360 games to the next-gen system without having to buy them all over again. The new backwards compatibility update ...
Activision Blizzard forms its own TV and film studio
Game publishing giant Activision Blizzard Inc has announced that it is forming its own television and film production company, which will be called Activision Blizzard Studios. In a press release, Activision Blizzard highlighted its numerous high value IPs that could be translated onto the big or small screen, including Call of Duty, Skylanders, Diablo, Hearthstone, and StarCraft. Conspicuously absent from ...
New Hearthstone ‘League of Explorers’ adventure arriving in one week | #BlizzCon
It has been just over half a year since the release of the last Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft adventure, but developer Blizzard Entertainment has already revealed at BlizzCon that the game’s next adventure, League of Explorers, will be arriving on November 12, less than a week away. Adventures are themed expansions for Hearthstone that add a number of ...
World of Warcraft: Legion release date leaked, will be on or before September 21
While many players are already fatigued with the current World of Warcraft expansion, it looks like it could be quite some time before they see any relief. Today, a leaked pre-order advertisement suggests that the next expansion, World of Warcraft: Legion, may not be released until as late September 21, 2016. WoW still dominates the MMO market, but ...
It turns out Twitch loves Bob Ross’ happy little trees
Sadly, beloved The Joy of Painting host Bob Ross did not live to see the outcome of the internet revolution, but that has not stopped him from having one of the most popular channels on the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform Twitch. Last week, Twitch announced that it would be playing a nonstop Bob Ross marathon in honor of both ...
Valve chastised by U.K. authority for misleading GTA V Steam sale ads
Earlier this year, Rockstar Games received a fair amount of criticism after Grand Theft Auto 5 was included in the Steam Summer Sale despite the fact that it was not actually discounted, but now it seems that Steam owner Valve Corp is the one taking the blame, at least in the U.K. During this year’s Steam ...
Ubisoft admits weak Assassin’s Creed Syndicate launch was “impacted” by Unity
With a series a prolific as Assassin’s Creed, there are bound to be a few disappointments in the bunch, but last year’s Assassin’s Creed Unity was a particularly rough release from Ubisoft Entertainment SA. While reviews were mixed in regard to the game’s story and gameplay, Unity was almost universally panned for the numerous bugs and glitches that plagued ...
Bethesda shares how its Creation Engine evolved between Skyrim and Fallout 4
With the highly anticipated Fallout 4 releasing next week, Bethesda Game Studios decided to share with fans how its Creation Engine has evolved since the release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim nearly four years ago. “The hardware we play games on continues to advance at a rapid pace with exciting new graphics features,” Bethesda said in ...
Steam’s new Item Store makes it easier for devs to sell in-game items
Team Fortress 2 is probably one of the best examples of a successfully monetized free-to-play game, and Valve Corp. has now made it easier for other studios to copy its formula by introducing a new Item Store feature for developers on Steam. The Item Store is already being used by Early Access survival game Rust, which is ...
Ubisoft struggled through first half of 2015 due to a lack of major releases
Ubisoft Entertainment SA revealed its earnings for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2015, and things do not seem to have gone well for the French game publisher in the first half of the year. According to Ubisoft’s numbers, the publisher saw a 57 percent drop in game sales with an estimated net loss (non-IFRS) of ...