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Witcher 3: Blood and Wine expansion releasing May 31
It has been nearly one year since Polish game studio CD Projekt RED released its highly acclaimed RPG, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and the game has since won numerous awards for its engaging gameplay, stunning graphics, and epic story. Now it looks like the story of The Witcher 3 will finally be coming to a close ...
Nvidia says GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 GPUs are cheaper and more powerful than Titan X
Nvidia Corp has unveiled the next generation of its popular GTX series video graphics cards, the GTX 1080 and the GTX 1070, both of which offer a sizeable boost in performance without a huge bump in price over their predecessors. The GPUs are based on Nvidia’s new Pascal architecture, which the company claims can achieve ...
Former Kerbal Space Program dev calls out studio for low wages and long hours
Kerbal Space Program is one of those weird indie darlings that seems like it never should have worked on paper, yet the game was incredibly successful long before it ever left Steam Early Access. KSP has an extremely dedicated fan base, but that community has been shaken this week by accusations from a former developer on the ...
GameStop CEO: “Wii U was disappointing to everybody, including [Nintendo]”
It would have been very difficult for Nintendo Co Ltd to top the success of the Wii, which sold more than 100 million units over the course of its lifetime, but not only has the Wii U failed to top its incredibly popular predecessor, it has not even been particularly successful among its current competitors. ...
Nearly half of YouTube’s top 10 trending games aren’t even out yet
This week, YouTube revealed its list for the top 10 trending games on the video site for the month of April, and surprisingly, four of those games have not even been released yet. So how did unreleased games end up on top of some of the most-watched games on YouTube? It turns out, all four games ...
Epic Games to move away from big budget single-player games
Epic Games made its name with big budget action games like the Gears of War series, but studio founder Tim Sweeney says that times have changed, and Epic has to change with them. “The economics of those games forces developers to work with major publishers to succeed, and that seems to be irreversible,” Sweeney said in ...
Made For Samsung program opens up to indie game devs
Samsung Corp has announced that it will be extending its “Made For Samsung” program to independent mobile game developers, allowing indie devs to get free access to tools that help with analytics, product testing, marketing, and more. In return, they have to agree to make their games exclusive to Samsung’s app store. Exclusivity deals are ...
Nintendo reveals E3 plans with heavy focus on Zelda
At this year’s E3, Nintendo Co Ltd will finally be unveiling the next game in its popular The Legend of Zelda franchise, and today the game maker detailed its plans for the event, which includes a playable demo of the game on the show floor. “At E3 this year, we’re treating people to an immersive Zelda ...
Fallout 4: Far Harbor trailer has a strong Lovecraftian vibe
Bethesda Game Studios has released an official trailer for the upcoming Fallout 4: Far Harbor DLC, which releases on May 19, and so far the new content seems to have some strong references to the works of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, whose stories were often set in sleepy villages in the northeastern United States. Here’s Bethesda’s ...
Eve Valkyrie devs: “The first five years of VR are going to be madness”
Icelandic game studio CCP Games, which is probably best known as the creator of Eve Online, is on the ground floor of the new virtual reality boom with its space dogfighting sim Eve: Valkyrie, but the studio is still cautious about the near future of VR and gaming. “[We have] a 10-year plan,” Hilmar Pétursson, CEO of CCP ...