Focus Entertainment has acquired first-person shooter developer BlackMill Games
Read More »London culling: Dontnod on the creation of Vampyr’s citizen system and recreating London
We talk to Dontnod about the much-awaited Vampyr, and how the French studio tried to create a very British story by recreating London and populating it with an impressive number of detailed characters
Read More »Bigben Interactive acquires developer Cyanide for €20m
Cyanide’s historical publisher Focus had also been trying to acquire the developer for the past few months, but Bigben swooped in first
Read More »Focus CEO Cédric Lagarrigue resigns after 20 years
Jürgen Goeldner, currently member Focus' supervisory board and who previously worked for the likes of Eidos and THQ, is to replace Lagarrigue as chairman of the management board
Read More »‘We love a Farming Simulator as much as we love a Vampyr’: Focus on its ambitious 2018 line-up
We catch up with Focus CEO Cédric Lagarrigue to discuss the publisher’s evolution and how it both wants to nurture new talent and work with the biggest indie developers worldwide
Read More »Focus: “Vampyr will be considered a success when around 1m copies are sold”
Focus Home Interactive’s boss Cédric Lagarrigue talks about the publisher’s ambitions for Dontnod’s Vampyr and why he’d choose a sequel over DLC for the title. For more on Vampyr, you can also read our interview with Dontnod’s narrative director Stéphane Beauverger. How did you and Dontnod start working on Vampyr and how …
Read More »Square Enix is falling back in love with JRPGs following Bravely Default success
Few companies have so fully embodied the shift in global games development from the West to the East as Square Enix. Once famed for its Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest RPG series, in recent years the company has put more effort into Westernised titles such as Deus Ex, Tomb Raider …
Read More »Meet the gaming headset that "overclocks" your brain by electrocuting it
Yes, that headline is correct. The $249 Foc.us is being advertised as a tDCS [transcranial Direct Current Stimulation] headset for gamers” that allows users to overclock your brain to increase the plasticity”. The result? Allegedly a user’s synapses fire faster”. Or in other words – Faster Processor, Faster Graphics, Faster …
Read More »From nearly skipping Europe to 21m sales – we explore the magic of Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing was the sort of game that should have never worked in the West. In a village filled with humanised animals, a player must set up a home, look after the garden, go fishing, write letters and perform other leisure activities. It’s exactly the sort of game that was …
Read More »Morrisons renews games focus
Morrisons is tackling the video games market with renewed focus this year, according to its games buyer Simon Millea. The grocer plans to make its games business more relevant and theatrical for its customers by being more selective with the titles it stocks and finding new sources of revenue. We …
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