Post Tagged with: "developers"

SWTOR: PvP Rewards Update and Crew Skills Changes to Come in Patch 1.1.2

Ah, Biochem. No crew skill has been more contentious. You were the little crew skill that could.

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McFarlane, Salvatore, and Schilling Coming to Gamestop Reckoning Midnight Launch Near You!

Gamestop has a special midnight release planned in your area!

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Sony: Vita to be “Easiest and Most Well Supported” Platform Yet

Having learned their lesson from the early struggles of the PS3, Sony is creating the PS Vita to be easy.

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Porting Titles From PS3 to NGP – How Easy Is It?

Anyone who watched the Playstation Meeting 2011 heard from Sony and third party developers alike that moving PS3 titles to the NGP is relatively painless …

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Are 3DS Developers Being Hushed By Nintendo?

According to various rumors, Nintendo may be forcing Nintendo 3DS developers to stay quiet about their projects for the highly anticipated new handheld.

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Square Enix CEO: “Nobody Has Succeeded at Globalisation”

Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada has stated that he feels the globalisation efforts of the videogames industry have been a failure, thanks to the sharp divide between Eastern and Western cultures.

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Insomniac Games Is Hiring; Benefits Include Bermuda and Beef Jerky

It’s no secret that Insomniac Games is one of the best developer studios to work at- they’ve won a “Best Place to Work” award year after year. With the Ratchet and Clank and Resistance franchises in their repertoire, anyone wanting to break into the developer industry would be lucky to work for them- and now [...]

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Tony Hawk developer Neversoft is no longer Tony Hawk developer

Joel Jewett, founder of Neversoft, has told Great Falls Tribunal that his company will be dropping the Tony Hawk series in favour of focusing on Guitar Hero. The source mentions that “the company has let the Tony Hawk series go to another developer.” As EDGE notes, it’s likely to be Robomodo, as they announced last [...]

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Sorry, The Last Boss Fight Costs Extra — Some Devs Willing to Ship Incomplete Games

A few days ago I published an article talking about the impact of used game sales and rentals on developers. The piece revolved around comments made by Frontier Developments’ founder, David Braben and his idea to create two price points/versions of a game — a model he compares to the film industry. I really disagreed [...]

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Used Game Market Not the Problem, Lack of New Purchase Incentive the Real Issue

Look, I’ve been reading a heap of articles lately citing both the Eurogamer and GI.biz sit down with Frontier Developments’ founder, David Braben, and I simply couldn’t take it anymore. For those of you that missed the hoopla, Braben’s gripe is that the used game market will eventually kill the single player aspect of games [...]

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Echochrome To Get New Free Levels

Echochrome is one of the most interesting puzzle games to come out for some time. Both due to its amazing sense of style and insane level of difficulty.  Although each version of the monochrome puzzler (it’s on both the PS3 and PSP) sports 56 unique levels, Sony has announced more is on the way.  The [...]

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Kojima: Violence in Games is Important – If Done Right

In the midst of the ongoing ruckus surrounding videogame violence, Metal Gear godfather Hideo Kojima has come out saying that it’s pretty much essential.

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