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Xbox One opens app development, but some analysts bet on PS4 as the console winner
Microsoft Corp is expected to open up app development for the Xbox One later this year, but some analysts are betting on the PlayStation 4 as this winner of this generation’s console war. According to a report by The Verge, Microsoft will be significantly opening up development for the Xbox One app platform this summer ...
Shadowrun: Hong Kong earned over 1000% of its Kickstarter goal
Shadowrun: Hong Kong’s Kickstarter campaign has officially ended, and the cyberpunk fantasy game has earned over $1.2 million of its original $100,000 goal with over 30,000 backers. Shadowrun began as a tabletop roleplaying game set in a sci-fi world that is like a bizarre mash up of Blade Runner and Dungeons & Dragons. The game world is populated ...
Square Enix is taking dev pitches for Gex and other old Eidos IPs
Gex does not have the name recognition of powerhouse game mascots like Mario or even fallen stars like Sonic, but the wisecracking gekko is getting a shot at a new life thanks to Square Enix. The Japanese game maker best known for the Final Fantasy series has put out a call for developers to pitch new game ...
Facebook’s targeted ads just got smarter
Targeted advertising is the bread and butter of Facebook Inc., and now the social network’s ads will be able to show users specific products with pinpoint accuracy. “Many businesses sell more than one product,” Facebook said in a statement. “But if your business has lots and lots of products to advertise, all that variety can ...
Choice and consistency: How to make or break immersion in video games
What makes a game immersive? If it were simply addicting gameplay that makes time disappear, then you could call games like Tetris or Pokemon immersive, yet few players would use that term for those games. Instead, most players would point to titles like Skyrim or Mass Effect as examples of immersive games, but if you ask gamers what ...
Zenimax goes after “Fortress Fallout” creator over game title
Zenimax Media, the publisher who owns Bethesda Softworks, has a habit of going after other games whose names bear even the slightest resemblance to one of their titles, and now they are throwing their legal weight at one small dev to force a name change. Fortress Fallout is an upcoming free-to-play mobile game that allows ...
Sony quickly denies rumors of The Last Guardian’s cancellation
Team Ico, the developer behind the critically acclaimed games Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, has been working on The Last Guardian for nearly eight years, but despite the game possibly being stuck in development hell, Sony Computer Entertainment was quick to deny rumors that the project had been abandoned. The rumors started to spread yesterday when it ...
The dark social media world of self-proclaimed “Columbiners”
A plot to commit a mass shooting at a Halifax, Nova Scotia mall on Valentine’s Day was foiled last week after local police received an anonymous tip leading to two arrests and the suicide of a teenage suspect. In the aftermath, police discovered a trail of evidence on social media that weaves a disturbing story of the suspects’ ...
Have game mods gone too far? Selfies, Ponies, and more
Mods (short for “modifications”) are often singled out as one of the primary benefits of gaming on a PC as opposed to a console. Fan-made mods can be as simple as minor quality of life improvements like streamlined menus or larger text, or they can be as complicated as complete standalone games. In fact, several ...
“The Order: 1886” dev answers criticisms of short play-time, long cutscenes
Should short games be cheaper? According to some of the first people to play through a leaked copy of Ready at Dawn Studio’s The Order: 1886, the answer is “yes.” But the Californian game developer fired back at the criticisms, saying the game is not that short, and they did not set out to please everyone. ...
