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Microsoft shuts down ‘Project Spark’ sandbox game maker
Microsoft has released a surprise announcement that it is completely shutting down Project Spark, its free sandbox game creation game for Xbox One and Windows. The game has already been pulled from the Xbox Marketplace and Windows Store, and its online functionality will be completely shut down by August 12. Community Manager Thomas Gratz explained on the Project Spark ...
Blizzard tells players to watch out for Overwatch cheaters
Blizzard Entertainment recently revealed that over 9.7 million people participated in the open beta for its upcoming team shooter, Overwatch, and any game that reaches that sort of popularity also has to deal with a hoard of cheaters who look for ways to gain unfair advantages over other players by using tools such as aimbots, wallhacks, and ...
Consortium: The Tower hits Fig campaign goal mostly thanks to investment backers
Indie roleplaying game Consortium: The Tower has successfully reached its campaign goal on crowdfunding platform Fig, but there is something a little unusual about the breakdown of who backed the game: it was overwhelmingly funded by investors rather than standard backers. Fig is a unique crowdfunding platform that allows users to support games in one of ...
Activision Blizzard is bringing MLG esports to Facebook Live
Earlier this year, Activision Blizzard Inc purchased esports tournament organization Major League Gaming (MLG) for the sum of $47 million, and company CEO Bobby Kotick said at the time that the motivation behind the purchase was to “create the ESPN of esports.” Now it looks like Activision Blizzard is finally revealing its game plan to ...
Assassin’s Creed movie trailer is out, and it actually looks kind of okay
Ubisoft Entertainment SA has released the first trailer for its upcoming Assassin’s Creed film starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, and surprisingly the movie looks like it might not be the total trainwreck most game-to-film adaptations tend to be. The trailer shows off a number of familiar elements from the game series, including the assassins’ iconic hood and ...
Every World of Warcraft activity “caters to a minority of the playerbase,” says lead designer
Throughout its nearly 12-year history, World of Warcraft has undergone numerous changes that have essentially made the game almost unrecognizable compared to its early days, but deciding how and when to change game elements is a difficult challenge for developer Blizzard Entertainment. Almost every change is met with backlash from at least a small part of the ...
Civilization VI arrives in October with big gameplay changes
Firaxis Games announced today that Sid Meier’s Civilization VI, the next entry in the popular turn-based strategy game series, will be releasing this year on October 21, and the studio has released the first trailer for the game. Many of the series’ staples appear to be returning in the new game, including its tile-based world map ...
Nintendo’s Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing mobiles games will be free-to-play
Nintendo Co Ltd may be a game industry veteran, but the Japanese company has just recently dipped its toes into the mobile market for the first time with its bizarre social media app, Miitomo. The app proved incredibly successful despite – or perhaps because of – Nintendo’s characteristic weirdness, and now the company is ready to follow ...
Disney backs out of console gaming and cancels ‘Disney Infinity’ series
The Walt Disney Company has announced that it will be discontinuing production on its toys-to-life game series, Disney Infinity, and it will also be shutting down Avalanche Software, the company’s internal game studio that had been in charge of the franchise. “From the beginning, Disney Infinity was built for you—our fans—and I wanted to take a ...
Amazon Video Direct lets you sell video content directly to Amazon users
Amazon has announced the launch of Amazon Video Direct, a new video sharing platform that allows content creators to distribute their videos directly to the site’s millions of users. The new service will give content creators a few different options for how they want to distribute their videos, including offering the content at no additional charge to Prime ...