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Rocket League introduces a new “Rocket Labs” game mode as a testing ground for new maps
Video games can be serious business, and many developers have discovered that shaking up the multiplayer with new features or mechanics can spark a riot amongst their rabid fan base. That is why Rocket League developer Psyonix Inc has announced a new game mode called Rocket Labs, which will allow the studio to test out creative ...
Facebook celebrates its 12th birthday with cheesy bromance slideshows and best friend stickers
Today marks the 12-year anniversary since Facebook first began turning the word “friend” into a verb, and as usual, the company is celebrating its birthday with its annual Friends Day event, which focuses on the connections people have made through the social network. “When people connect, powerful things happen and lives are changed,” Facebook said in a ...
Eve Online’s spin-off game Dust 514 is shutting down after only three years
Eve Online’s first-person shooter spin-off, Dust 514, will soon be no more, as developer CCP Games has announced that the game will be permanently shutting down at the end of May, barely three years after the game was first released as a PlayStation 3 exclusive. Senior Community Developer Vladislav “CCP Frame” Perge made the announcement in a ...
Tales of Symphonia is the latest in a string of horribly broken PC ports
Apparently 13 years is not quite enough time to make a not-terrible PC port for a console game, as the recent Steam release for the 2003 Japanese RPG Tales of Symphonia has proven. Users have been complaining about a number of serious issues with the game’s PC port, including frequent game crashes, reduced frame rate and resolution compared to the original, and ...
Ant Simulator devs call accusations that they squandered the game’s budget “100 percent BS”
Last weekend, Eric Tereshinski, the lead programmer on indie virtual reality game Ant Simulator, posted an inflammatory video to YouTube where he accused his business partners of blowing the game’s budget on “liquor, restaurants, bars, and even strippers,” but now those business partners have come forward saying that Tereshinski’s claims are entirely false, and that all of ...
Hearthstone’s new Standard format will cycle out old expansions to keep the game fresh
In a move that is sure to anger people who do not understand how collectible card games work, Blizzard Entertainment Inc has announced the upcoming introduction of a new Standard game mode for Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, which will limit players’ decks to only the most recently released card expansions. Starting this Spring, players will be ...
Magic Leap raises an astounding $793.5M in Series C funding round led by Alibaba
Despite being a company with no products available yet, Magic Leap Inc has quickly become the most highly valued augmented reality startup in the world, and that valuation has become even higher thanks to an incredible $793.5 million Series C funding round led by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. This brings Magic Leap’s total valuation ...
Nintendo Wii U still last in the console war as company profits drop by nearly a third
Nintendo Co Ltd’s hardware and software sales seem to be staying relatively stable, but that did not stop the Japanese company’s third quarter profits from taking a more than 30 percent cut over last year. According to Nintendo’s recently released third quarter 2015 earnings report, its profits dropped from 59.5 billion Yen (roughly $494.4 million USD) to just 40.5 ...
Ant Simulator dev quits and accuses partners of blowing Kickstarter money on booze and strippers
Update: Ant Simulator was not funded directly through Kickstarter, but ETeeski LLC had been using funds from a campaign for a game development video series as seed money for the Ant Simulator project. Original Article: Indie game projects fail all the time, but virtual reality indie game Ant Simulator seems to have failed even more spectacularly than most after some of the team ...
Google’s AlphaGo “plays just like a human,” says top ranked Go player
Google revealed last week that its artificial intelligence program AlphaGo had become the first AI to beat a professional Go player in a stunning 5–0 victory against European champion Fan Hui. Professional player Myungwan Kim, who holds a 9 dan ranking, the highest ranking possible in professional Go, said in an analysis of the AI’s games that ...
