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Free-to-play game platform Playsimo launched in Mexico
Grupo Televisa SAB, Latin America’s largest multimedia company, and online game creator UOL BoaCompra have teamed up to launch Playsimo, a free-to-play online game portal and content distribution platform. “With gaming at an all-time high in popularity throughout Mexico, Televisa is investing a considerable amount to deliver the best games and game-related content to its audience,” Televisa ...
Legendary ex-Rare devs reunite for a Banjo-Kazooie successor
The entertainment industry is no stranger to capitalizing on nostalgia, especially when proven IPs can be remade with an almost guaranteed audience. Video game publishers have also caught on to the to the nostalgia gold mine, and 2015 is shaping up to be a year of remasters, remakes, and spiritual successors. Last week, for example, ...
Facebook adds item-selling features to Groups
Facebook Inc. has come a long way from the days of being a simple social network for trendy college students, and now the social media giant is adding yet another feature to its growing list of tools for its 1.3 billion users: online selling. You can find a Facebook Group for just about any subject, ...
What will Bethesda announce at its first ever E3 press conference?
Bethesda Softworks LLC has announced it will be hosting a press conference at E3 for the first time, hinting at a big announcement coming for fans. “We’re hosting our first-ever E3 Showcase in Hollywood, CA on June 14th and we’ve saved some seats just for you, our fans,” Bethesda wrote on its official blog. “Feel ...
“Under the Ocean” joins the Steam Early Access graveyard
For many games, Steam Early Access is a place to build a fan-base while simultaneously funding game development, but when a developer fails to live up to its promises, it is the players who suffer. This happened with the ill-fated Towns, which was abandoned by its developers after an intermittent series of minor updates. Now, another game – Under ...
Why Eurogamer dropped review scores for games
Reviews are a matter of opinion, and no one is more opinionated than critics. Many critics rely on numerical scores to tell readers how good a video game is, some using a scale of 1 to 10 and others going all the way up to 100. Nerdist.com even rates games and movies on a scale of 1 to 5 burritos. ...
Is free Internet.org better for India, or for Facebook?
It is no secret that India has enormous potential as an emerging market, and as the fastest growing economy in the world, western companies are scrambling to find a foothold in the subcontinent. Earlier this year, Twitter Inc. purchased Indian startup Zipdial to deliver its services to users without access to reliable mobile internet, and now ...
Bioware’s 4v1 game “Shadow Realms” has been canceled
Reports surfaced earlier today that Shadow Realms, which was being developed by Bioware’s Austin location in Texas, had been canceled, and now Bioware has confirmed that the rumors are true. Shadow Realms was announced last year at Gamescom and was intended to be an episodic series focusing on 4 vs 1 combat not unlike Evlove, which is releasing ...
Braid developer gambles everything on “The Witness”
2008’s Braid was the poster child of a successful indie game, selling hundreds of thousands of copies after being developed for only $200,000. Now, Braid’s creator, Jonathan Blow, is funneling all of the money he made from Braid and then some into his next project, a colorful Myst-style 3D puzzle game called The Witness. “Braid still sells well on platforms that are ...
Esports manager threatens to evict player’s mother if he quits
As if the recurring accusations of cheating and match fixing were not enough, the esports world has been hit by yet another scandal after one team manager threatened to have a player’s mother lose her house. Marcin “Kori” Wolski, an 18-year-old professional League of Legends player for MeetYourMakers (MYM), was fed up with esports organizers who had ...
