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Nintendo of America president shrugs off E3 critics | #E32015
With this year’s E3 finally wrapping up, it is already clear who the winners and the losers are when it comes to fan hype. On one end of the spectrum, you have Bethesda Game Studios and its Fallout 4 showcase, which generated the kind of excitement marketeers dream of. On the other end of the spectrum, ...
Halo 5’s REQ Packs become the latest microtransaction controversy
Few game industry trends seem to spark nerd rage more than microtransactions, and the upcoming Halo 5: Guardians is the latest in a long line of recent titles that allows players to spend real money to unlock perks in multiplayer. Halo 5 will allow players to purchase REQ Packs, which contain weapons, armor, skins and so on. The feature ...
Fallout Shelter overtakes Candy Crush Saga on top-grossing iOS games
Bethesda Game Studios made a lot of exciting announcements regarding the Fallout franchise during this year’s E3, and one of the most unexpected was the sudden release of Fallout Shelter, a mobile game that lets players design and run their own vaults. Now less than a week after release, Fallout Shelter has already overtaken Candy Crush Saga as the third ...
Twitter acquires Whetlab to accelerate its machine learning efforts
It has already been a rocky year for Twitter Inc, especially with the recent departure of longtime CEO Dick Costolo. Despite continued problems with stagnant user growth and ongoing harassment issues, Twitter continues marching forward with new startup acquisitions, and today the company announced that it had acquired Cambridge-based startup Whetlab to “accelerate Twitter’s machine learning ...
Yooka-Laylee exceeds crowdfunding goal by over $3 million
Yooka-Laylee, the “buddy duo platformer” created by ex-Rare devs as a spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie, has successfully completed its Kickstarter campaign with a finally tally of £2,090,104 (nearly $3.3 million USD). The campaign reached its £175,000 goal within 40 minutes of going live, and it has blown past every stretch goal set by the creators. “47 days ...
No Man’s Sky will be releasing on PC and PS4 simultaneously
This year’s E3 has been an onslaught of console exclusives, but it looks like one title previously thought to be either exclusive or timed-exclusive to PlayStation 4 will be getting a simultaneous PC release. During E3’s first ever PC Game Show on Tuesday, Hello Games co-founder Sean Murray confirmed that the highly anticipated No Man’s Sky would ...
Windborne becomes the latest cancelled Early Access game
Buying an Early Access game is not without risk, and Steam even explicitly states “you should only buy an Early Access game if you are excited about playing it in its current state.” There are no guarantees that the games will get a final release, and that fact has once again been proven by Hidden Path ...
Does the Skylanders and Amiibo crossover signal a shift for Nintendo? | #E32015
Nintendo Co Ltd is not always known for playing well with third party developers. In fact, a lack of third party titles has been a complaint against Nintendo consoles since the Gamecube. So it came as a bit of a shock when the Japanese game maker announced that its beloved Amiibo figures would be crossing ...
Square Enix shows off Kingdom Hearts 3 footage with Tangled crossover | #E32015
There must be something about the number 3 that brings developers to their knees like some kind of game designer kryptonite. While Valve Corp and its founder, Gabe Newell, hear no end of Half-Life 3 jokes, Square Enix has also been fending off questions about Kingdom Hearts 3 for nearly the same length of time. Since the 2006 release of Kingdom ...
The Werx in McKinney: Coworking in a 105-year-old cotton mill
The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is a hub of coworking communities, with the largest concentrations of offices huddled around downtown Dallas and North Dallas, but there are a handful of outliers scattered around the greater DFW area. One such coworking space, The McKinney Werx, is tucked far away from the chaos of downtown or even the ...