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Former Chinese Room studio head Jessica Curry explains departure with candid blog post
Jessica Curry has stepped down as head of The Chinese Room, the developer behind Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, and she explained her departure in a candid blog post about her illness and her negative experience working with a publisher. Curry explained that she suffers from a degenerative illness that will get progressively worse, and it ...
Hearthstone was an experiment to make a small-scale Blizzard game, says former CCO Rob Pardo
While Blizzard Entertainment’s games share many traits in common – such as all being wildly successful money-printing machines – one of their games stands out as being a bit different than the others. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is currently one of the studio’s most popular games, with tens of millions of players and a consistent ...
BBC Three will livestream the upcoming League of Legends World Championships
British television channel BBC Three has announced that it will be livestreaming coverage of the upcoming League of Legends world championships, which are scheduled to run for four days starting on October 15. The programming will be hosted by Radio 1 DJ Dev Griffin, whom BBC calls an “avid gamer,” and on-the-floor interviews with players and fans will be ...
Sony cuts PS4 price in North America ahead of the holiday shopping season
The holiday season is fast approaching, and that means it is time for the big console makers to start slashing prices in preparation for the frenzied buying spree that keeps the lights on for at least a few more months. Last year the holiday season saw a 17 percent bump in console sales, and companies like ...
Video game voice actors vote overwhelmingly in favor of a strike
We may soon see a series of significant delays in the development of dozens of upcoming video games, as the largest union of voice actors in America has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike. For the last few weeks, members of SAG-AFTRA, the joint union between the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and ...
Microsoft’s ‘Project XRay’ for HoloLens is gaming’s past, not its future
Microsoft earned its share of oohs and ahhs when it showcased its Project XRay mixed reality game for HoloLens at its Windows 10 Devices event earlier this week, but aside from the novelty of robot spiders crawling out of your living room wall, the game itself does not appear to be a revolutionary step forward in gaming. For ...
Crowdfunded game ‘Midora’ in trouble despite $73,000 from Kickstarter
It can be easy to forget that a big pile of money can’t solve all of your problems. Sometimes you need two big piles of money. At least that is what Epic Minds discovered with its crowdfunded “90’s inspired action-adventure” game Midora, which successfully raised over $70,000 on Kickstarter in July 2014, more than $10,000 higher ...
Riot Games bans game reseller G2A from sponsoring League of Legends players
As eSports continues to grow in popularity, more and more money is becoming involved in the industry, and like traditional sports, professional players often receive significant sponsorships from companies in return for using their products or displaying their logos during tournaments. But not all sponsorships are agreeable to the studios behind eSports games, as League of ...
Blizzard games still dominate Twitch’s top 20 most-watched streams
Riot Games’ League of Legends and Valve Corps’ Counter-Strike: Global Offensive may have their place staked out as the number one and number two games on Twitch, respectively, but Blizzard Entertainment still remains the dominant game studio on the livestreaming site’s top 20 most-watched games. Blizzard games accounted for a quarter of the entire top 20 list for ...
Witcher dev promises Cyberpunk 2077 will be “far bigger than anything” it’s done before
It has been over three years since Warsaw-based game studio CD Projekt RED announced that it was working on Cyberpunk 2077, a sci-fi RPG based on the Cyberpunk tabletop role-playing games, and so far the developer has released very few details about the project. Of course, that is not really surprising considering the fact that CD Projekt was also busy ...