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Divinity: Original Sin sequel is coming to Kickstarter this month
Belgian indie game developer Larian Studios has announced a sequel to its popular retro RPG game Divinity: Original Sin, and the studio will once again be turning to Kickstarter for funding. “For a long time, we’ve dreamed of making something even bigger, better, and more engaging than Divinity: Original Sin, and now it might finally be ...
Blizzard will consider a Warcraft RTS once StarCraft II wraps up | #Gamescom15
Before the name Warcraft became synonymous with the biggest MMORPG of all time, it also represented some of the most iconic and popular real-time strategy (RTS) games released in the history of the genre, but it has been over 12 years since the release of the last Warcraft RTS, Warcraft III: Frozen Throne. Since then, fans of Blizzard’s strategies games have ...
‘Gone Home’ and ‘Tacoma’ developer Fullbright on surviving media hype
Portland-based Fullbright made a name for itself with its “walking simulator” story-focused game Gone Home, which followed the story of a girl in the mid 1990s returning home from college to find her family missing and the house in disarray. There were no enemies to kill, or really any danger of any kind. Instead, the player ...
Hearthstone leads the pack in the $1.2 billion digital CCG market
Blizzard Entertainment Inc’s Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft has helped popularize the rapidly expanding collectible card game (CCG) video game genre, and a recent study by SuperData Research Inc. found that Hearthstone sits at the forefront of a genre that brought in over $1.2 billion last year. “Collectible card games have been tremendously popular for a long time, and ...
Despite successful Kickstarter, ‘Woolfe – The Red Hood Diaries’ devs file for bankruptcy
A successful crowdfunding campaign may be a dream for many independent game developers, but a sackful of cash can’t solve everything, and now one developer has been forced to shut down after its crowdfunded game failed to live up to fan expectations. Belgian indie game developer Grin Gamestudio successfully crowdfunded its cinematic side-scrolling platformer Woolfe – ...
How in-app payments almost killed Warhammer: Arcane Magic
While the free-to-play model might be making money hand over fist for powerhouses like League of Legends or Clash of Clans, it does not always work out for every game, and in some cases it can make things much, much worse. Norwegian developer Turbo Tape Games learned that lesson firsthand with Warhammer: Arcane Magic, but CEO Fredrik Sundt Breien ...
Pixar’s Universal Screen Description software is going open source
Pixar Animation Studios has announced that its proprietary Universal Screen Description (USD) software will be going open source by Summer 2016, providing computer animation studios with an incredibly powerful tool to manage scenes in large scale projects. The techniques used in USD date back to 1998 with Pixar’s film A Bug’s Life. The software allows multiple animators to work ...
Gamescom breaks attendance record with over 345,000 | #Gamescom15
Gamescom is one of the largest annual gaming events in the world, drawing crowds in the hundreds of thousands to Cologne, Germany, where it is has been held every August since 2009. Despite a slightly smaller crowd last year, this year’s Gamescom was a resounding success with a record breaking 345,000 people in attendance. “Gamescom ...
The data of online laughter: LOL is out, Haha is in
There was a time when the term “LOL” was as synonymous with net culture as cat pictures and dancing babies, but these days the term does not see much use anymore, at least according to a recent study by Facebook. Facebook researchers Udi Weinsberg, Lada Adamic and Mike Develin looked at a one-week snapshot of ...
Rockstar bans GTA5 modders who made their own multiplayer
Rockstar Games Inc. has a complicated relationship with the people who mod its games. On the one hand, Rockstar has said that it loves seeing all of the cool fan creations that add new functionality and play modes. On the other hand, Rockstar wants to control its properties with an uncompromising iron fist that crushes ...
