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“The best attribute you can have as a developer is reliability,” says Kabam president
Game studios all over the world have been churning out thousands and thousands of mobile games ever since the start of the smartphone revolution, but Kabam Inc. president Aaron Loeb says that the mobile game industry is starting to see a shift that could end up culling some of the herd. “Five years ago mobile ...
Xbox One’s backwards compatibility and Windows 10 updates will be arriving on November 12
Microsoft surprised Xbox fans at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), where it announced that the Xbox One game console would be getting backwards compatibility support by the end of the year, allowing users to play their old Xbox 360 games on the new system without having to buy them all over again. Now the console ...
SXSW Interactive cancels two gaming sessions due to violent threats
South by Southwest (SXSW) has chosen to cancel two video game-related sessions for the SXSW Interactive 2016 festival after it received numerous violent threats over their content. One session, titled “SavePoint: A Discussion on the Gaming Community,” was meant to be a panel discussion about “the journalistic integrity of gaming’s journalists” and was made up of supporters of ...
Latin America is set for major growth in mobility and IoT, says IDC | #oow15
Latin America is going to be a big market for cloud business next year, especially in the mobility market, according to Alejandro Florean, research and consulting director of enterprise solutions, Latin America, at IDC Research, Inc. (IDC). “By 2018, at least 50 percent of the market will be mobile in Latin America,” Florean told John Furrier and ...
Why doesn’t Oracle need to convince you to move to the cloud? | #oow15
Oracle does not want to have to convince anyone to move to the cloud. In fact, it doesn’t have to, according to Shawn Price, senior VP, Cloud Go-to-Market and product business groups at Oracle. “I don’t want to convince you,” Price told John Furrier and Brian Gracely, cohosts of theCUBE, from theSiliconANGLE Media team, during Oracle OpenWorld 2015. “I don’t ...
Batman: Arkham Knight will finally return to PC on Oct 28
There may actually be an end in sight for the sad farce that has been the Batman: Arkham Knight PC release. Publisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced that the game will finally be re-releasing for PC at 10am PDT on October 28, just over four months after it was pulled from digital storefronts for being ...
Payday 2 devs torn apart in Reddit AMA over “pay-to-win” microtransactions
Payday 2 fans reacted with outrage earlier this month when developer Overkill Software released a “Black Market Update” for the game that added microtransactions. While many players objected to idea of having microtransactions at all, the real sticking point was the introduction of in-game safes that can only be opened with a special drill that must ...
‘Assassin’s Creed Syndicate’ is the lowest-selling U.K. launch of a major AC title
Despite reaching the number one sales spot in the U.K., Assassin’s Creed Syndicate saw the weakest launch of a major Assassin’s Creed title in the mega-franchise’s history. According to Chart-Track (via GamesIndustry.biz), which admittedly tracks physical sales only, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate overtook Fifa 16 as the top game in the U.K. this week, also beating out the newly released Guitar Hero Live. Even with ...
Analytics firm Newzoo partners with Fnatic for access to valuable eSports data
Amsterdam-based video game industry research firm Newzoo BV has announced that it is partnering with Euorpean eSports organization Fnatic as part of a plan to expand its data insights in the rapidly growing professional competitive gaming scene. Fnatic has professional teams in several of the biggest eSports games, including League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2 and ...
“We’ve always felt that there could be a lot more games based on our various IPs,” says Warhammer owner Games Workshop
You may have noticed a significant bump in Warhammer game titles lately, with several new titles releasing within a few months of each other. This includes major game releases like Warhammer: The End Times – Vermintide and Total War: Warhammer, as well as about half a dozen mobile games. In a recent interview with Gamasutra, Games Workshop head of ...