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Overwatch closed beta returns with player progression and new game modes
After a two-month hiatus, the closed beta for Blizzard Entertainment’s highly anticipated team shooter Overwatch has finally returned, and the game has arrived when several new features for players to try out. New game modes The latest beta patch has introduced two new game modes to Overwatch. Control Mode Control is a new type of map where ...
Mad Catz CEO and other top execs quit the day before financials are released
Yesterday, several high ranking executives resigned from game peripheral maker Mad Catz Interactive Inc, including the company’s CEO and President, Darren Richardson. The resignations came in the day before the company was set to release its latest financial report. According to Mad Catz, Board Chairman Thomas Brown and Senior Vice President of Business Affairs Whitney Peterson also stepped down. ...
Amazon’s free Lumberyard game engine comes with native AWS and Twitch support
Amazon is getting serious about expanding its presence in the gaming world, and the e-commerce giant announced today that it will be releasing its own free game engine called Lumberyard. According to Eric Schenk, General Manager for Amazon Lumberyard, the new Lumberyard game engine is designed to support full AAA game development. “Great technology can indeed make things easier, ...
Blizzard’s game design philosophy is “easy to learn, hard to master,” says CEO Mike Morhaime
Warcraft and StarCraft creator Blizzard Entertainment Inc turned 25 years old this week, and in a recent interview with GamesBeat, co-founder and CEO Mike Morhaime looked back on how the studio got to where it is today, as well as the design philosophies it has always tried to follow. When asked whether Blizzard intentionally set out to make accessible games ...
Daybreak Games will soon make you buy H1Z1 twice
In a move that seems appropriate for the studio that ruined Star Wars Galaxies (yes, I’m still bitter), Daybreak Game Company, formerly Sony Online Entertainment, has announced that its zombie survival game H1Z1 will be split into two separate games, neither of which will be free-to-play. Daybreak announced the split on the official H1Z1 blog: “H1Z1 has been on an ...
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth rejected from App Store for showing violence against children
Apple Inc has a bit of a reputation for being heavy handed when it comes to rejecting apps from the App Store for a variety of reasons, and now it looks like Nicalis Inc’s popular indie game The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is the latest title to get hit with the ban hammer. What is particularly ...
Valve gets clever with content discovery for the Lunar New Year Steam Sale
A new Steam Sale is unexpectedly upon us, and PC gamers everywhere are already scouring the Steam Store for the best deals on thousands of games. With such a ridiculously large library of games, it has become increasingly difficult for users to discover new games on Steam, which is bad for both developers and fans, ...
Hackers broke into DayZ’s forum and gained access to hundred of usernames and passwords
While most of the gaming world seems to have moved on from DayZ, that does not mean that the game has dropped off of hackers’ radars, and developer Bohemia Interactive AS has alerted players that hundreds of emails, usernames, and passwords have been compromised. “A security incident occurred on forums.dayzgame.com recently,” Bohemia said in an email to ...
Warner Bros cancels the Linux and Mac ports of Arkham Knight to the surprise of no one
With Batman: Arkham Knight still barely functional on PC, publisher Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment has announced that it is cancelling development of Linux and Mac ports of the game. Warner Bros released a rather terse statement on Steam announcing the cancellation of the ports. “We are very sorry to confirm that Batman: Arkham Knight will no ...
Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro will reunite as joint keynote speakers at DICE 2016
In yet another subtle jab to Konami Holdings Corp, this years DICE Summit will feature both Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima and acclaimed horror film director Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) as keynote speakers. “In a session titled ‘A Conversation with Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro,’ these master storytellers will offer insight into their creative vision ...
