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It may have the number ‘2′ after its name, but Respawn is treating its Titanfall sequel like a new IP. Speaking to MCV @ Gamescom, the studio’s COO Dusty Welch and art director Joel Emslie said that, as a result of the original Titanfall not launching on PS4, the franchise’s …
Read More »‘Publishers are now calling us’ – How Life is Strange has transformed Dontnod
Dontnod says its perception in the industry has been transformed on the back of hit episodic game Life is Strange. The company was in financial trouble after its disappointing first game, 2013’s Remember Me, and was rescued when Square Enix invested in Life is Strange. The title was a huge …
Read More »Constructor HD gets January release date
System 3’s popular RTS building franchise will return 20 years after it first launched. Constructor HD has been given a release date of January 31st, 2017 which makes it one of the first promising titles to launch next year. The game reunites many of the original development team and will …
Read More »Metal Gear and Call of Duty dominate Gamescom
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and Metal Gear Survive are amongst the biggest games of Gamescom so far. Before the show, Infinite Warfare’s ‘Zombies in Spaceland’ trailer was released, racking up over 1m page views on YouTube – making it by far the biggest trailer. On the first day of …
Read More »Telltale: ‘We need to redefine video game genres’
Telltale Games has urged the games industry to reconsider how it categorises genre, as the medium’s storytelling ability continues to mature. Job Stauffer, worldwide head of creative communications at the Batman, Minecraft and Walking Dead developer, observed that the growing appreciation of narrative in video games means that the industry …
Read More »‘Oculus Rift will drive gamers to physical retailers’
VR giant Oculus says in-store demos for its Rift headset will cause consumers to flock to the High Street. Oculus head of content Jason Rubin said that retailers are happy to make the trade-off between floor space and demo space due to the fact that it will attract a large …
Read More »Oculus, CI Games, Telltale and Dontnod headline our last edition of MCV @ Gamescom 2016
Gamescom is almost over and, to finish on a high note, we talk to Oculus’ head of content Jason Rubin, who tells us demos for the Rift headset will bring people back to physical retailers. MCV @ Gamescom also speaks to CI Games, which wants to reach the heights of …
Read More »Ex-Lionhead developers unveil ‘The Sexy Brutale’
A new indie studio formed by former Lionhead developers have teamed up with Tequila Works to create a unique console game. Tom Lansdale and brothers Charles and James Griffiths have formed Cavalier Games to create The Sexy Brutale, a puzzle adventure game where the hero must join a never-ending masked …
Read More »Yooka-Laylee developers buoyed by Ratchet & Clank success
The commercial success of the new Ratchet & Clank reboot has excited the creators of Yooka-Laylee. Like Ratchet & Clank, Yooka-Laylee is a 3D platformer. It generated 2.1m via Kickstarter, and studio Playtonic admits it’s nervous that many of those interested in the game will already own it as a …
Read More »Richard Garriott: ‘If crowdfunding failed, my career was over’
Ultima creator Richard Garriott has said that his four-plus decades of working in the games industry would have come to an end had the crowdfunding campaign for Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues failed to hit its target. Pitched as a follow-up to his hit ‘90s RPG series Ultima, Avatar …
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