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Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan personally responds to one beta player’s long list of suggestions
Contrary to popular belief, there are actually some people out there who have received their closed beta invites to Blizzard Entertainment’s highly anticipated team-based shooter, Overwatch, and this week game director Jeff Kaplan took the time to personally respond to one beta player’s long list of suggestions. Earlier this week, Overwatch forum user Alystair submitted a lengthy ...
Valve invests in the Counter-Strike esports scene with $1M prize pools for all major tournaments
Valve corp has announced that it will be raising the prize pool of all Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) tournaments to $1 million in response to “major growth” in the game’s esports scene. “When we announced the first CS:GO Major Championship in 2013, we hoped the Majors would be rallying points for the community, tent-pole events that ...
Twitch will finally start recording chat for archived videos
Twitch is getting a much-needed update to the way live broadcasts are recorded on the platform, as archived videos will finally include messages posted to the chat during the stream. “Over the next few weeks we will be rolling out Chat Replay, a new feature that brings the excitement of Twitch Chat to recorded videos,” ...
Keeping Nintendo NX secret from game devs is “just braindamaged,” says Moon Studios head
There is an extreme level of secrecy surrounding unannounced game consoles that keeps even game developers in the dark, and according to Thomas Mahler, CEO of Moon Studios (Ori and the Blind Forest), this is a huge problem. In a recent post on NeoGAF, Mahler agreed with comments made by Unravel creator Martin Sahlin, who said the he has ...
Fallout 4’s mod creation kit will finally arrive on PC in April, consoles to follow soon after
It may not be as early as most players were hoping, but it looks like the official mod creation kit for Fallout 4 will finally be arriving on PC in April. Bethesda Game Studios head Todd Howard confirmed the vague timeline for the release in a recent interview with GameInformer. “Our goal is between the first two ...
League of Legends gets standardized penalties for esports matches
League of Legends (LoL) creator Riot Games has announced a series of major changes to the way it handles misconduct in professional LoL tournaments with the introduction of a new standardized penalty system for pro players. The esports industry has had its share of scandals over the last year, with problems ranging from doping to illegal match fixing and ...
Jay and Silent Bob game launches on equity crowdfunding platform Fig
Film director Kevin Smith’s Jay and Silent Bob characters may soon bring their unique brand of foul-mouthed pothead humor to their very own video game, at least if a new crowdfunding campaign from Super Comboman developer Interabang Entertainment is successful. Interabang describes the new game, which is called Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch, as a “a ...
Activision Blizzard’s takeover of ‘Candy Crush’ creator King is finally complete
Game publishing giant Activision Blizzard Inc has officially completed its acquisition of King Digital Entertainment PLC, the Swedish game studio behind the immensely popular Candy Crush mobile game series, which it first set into motion in November 2015. According to King, Activision Blizzard purchased its remaining shares at $18 each for a total of $5.9 billion in ...
Warren Spector is forming a small game studio in Austin to work on System Shock 3
Last week, veteran game developer Warren Spector announced that he would be joining Otherside Entertainment to work on System Shock 3, the third game in a series he had originally helped create in 1994. In a recent interview with Gamasutra, Spector explained why he had decided to leave his faculty position at the University of Texas in ...
How to increase your odds of getting into the Team Fortress 2 competitive matchmaking beta
It has been a long time coming, but Valve Corp will finally be introducing a competitive matchmaking game mode to its popular team-based shooter, Team Fortress 2, nearly nine years after the game was originally released. In a post to the game’s Steam Community page, Valve employee “Jill” explained the developer’s plans for the competitive game ...
