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Twitch eyes overseas gamers with more international events in Australia, Mexico and Japan
Popular Amazon-owned game streaming platform Twitch announced this week that it will be expanding its worldwide presence with booths at more international gaming events. The game streaming site already attends major events in Europe like Gamescom, but Twitch will also be moving into Australia, Mexico and Japan. “In addition to our continued presence at gamescom 2015 ...
Nintendo’s Amiibo sales soared to 10.5 million in less than a year
This past year has been good to Nintendo Co Ltd, at least financially. Earlier this month, the 126-year-old Japanese game maker released an earnings report showing that the company had achieved its best Q1 in three years. One of the biggest contributors to that success is Nintendo Amiibo, the insanely popular toys-to-life collectibles that can ...
Autodesk is launching its own game engine called Stingray
Design software company Autodesk Inc has unveiled its new game engine, a cross-platform development suite called Stingray that integrates with Autodesk’s own modelling and animation software. Autodesk had first announced plans to create its own game engine at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and Stingray is aimed at developers who already use Autodesk’s ...
Nikkei report paints a disturbing picture of Konami
Konami Corp has created some of the most memorable games of the last 30 years, including Frogger, Contra, Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid, but the Japanese game studio’s reputation has suffered over the last year due to continued rumors about its falling out with Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima. Now, a new report by Japanese newspaper Nikkei (translation via Kotaku) ...
Publisher announcement kills ‘Red Ash’ Kickstarter enthusiasm
Finally proving that nostalgia-pandering Kickstarter Inc. campaigns do not always succeed, Mega Man Legends spiritual successor Red Ash is currently almost $300,000 short of its funding goal with only six hours left in its campaign, but this does not mean an end for the game. Last week, Chinese game publisher Fuze Entertainment Co. Ltd. promised that it would ...
Microsoft investment helps push Uber valuation up to $50 billion
Despite all of its regulatory headaches and almost being involved in a new French Revolution, ride sharing company Uber Technologies Inc has continued its meteoric rise as one of the most disruptive services in recent history, and now sources speaking to The Wall Street Journal claim that the company’s valuation now exceeds $50 billion, matching Facebook’s record ...
Nvidia forced to recall 88,000 Shield Tablets due to battery fire hazard
Nvidia Corp is instituting a recall tens of thousands of its Android-based Shield Tablets due to concerns that the device’s batteries could pose a serious fire hazard. According to a report by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Nvidia has received reports of at least four cases where the batteries in the Shield Tablet overheated, damaging the ...
First Total War: Warhammer gameplay footage reveals sprawling battles and Human on Orc action
From the 2000 release of Shogun: Total War through this year’s release of Total War: Attila, Creative Assembly’s Total War franchise has stuck to real-world historical scenarios for nine mainline games and a hand full of spin-offs, but the upcoming tenth game in the series, Total War: Warhammer, will see a drastic departure from the realism of previous titles. Total War: ...
Happy SysAdmin Appreciation Day! Thank your SysAdmin for everything they do
Today marks the 16th annual Systems Administrator Appreciation Day, which according to the event’s creators is “the single greatest 24 hours on the planet… and pretty much the most important holiday of the year.” The holiday occurs the last Friday of July, and it is meant to celebrate the head techies that work behind the scenes ...
Terraria will be coming to Wii U and 3DS in early 2016
In the four years since its release, popular pixel art survival and crafting game Terraria has made the jump from PC to just about every other platform out there, including PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, iOS, Android, Windows Phone and PlayStation Vita. Now the game’s developer, Re-Logic, has announced that Terraria is about to ...
