Industry
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1.4Kid’s John Carmack joins Oculus as chief technology officer
Co-founder of id Software and head designer for many games in the Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake franchises John Carmack will be joining...
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1.8KTrip Hawkins and Extreme Reality partner up for iPad Dev Contest
A little while ago, we interviewed Extreme Reality about their new motion gaming software that uses a standard 2D camera to track...
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3.8KStar Wars: The Old Republic gets Titans of Industry update, video, screens
Star Wars: The Old Republic is going strong, has more subscribers than ever, and has just picked up a long-awaited update called...
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1.8KThe Queen’s Jubilee event is now underway in Guild Wars 2
The free content keeps on flowing in Guild Wars 2, and the latest addition is the Queen’s Jubilee! Queen Jennah, overseeing the...
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2.2KEverQuest Next announced with media blowout
I can remember doing corpse runs while attacking Crush and his Crushbone orcs just down the path from the elven starting area...
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2.0KActivision releases quarterly earnings. Still making stupid amounts of money
Activision released their Q2 2013 earnings report, showing a net revenue of $1.05 billion as compared with $1.08 billion from Q2 of...
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1.4KVivendi sells its controlling interests in Activision Blizzard.
A deal has been apparently in the works for months, and according to Reuters today it has gone through. Bobby Kotick, Chief Executive...
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2.4KThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt finds a publisher for North America
We knew it would only be a matter of time but CD Projekt Red has finally found a North American publisher for...
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1.3KNew studio Molten Games is a fusion of industry leaders
With dynamos like EA, Activision, and Ubisoft dominating the gaming landscape, it’s easy for newcomers to go relatively unnoticed. Newly founded online...
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1.3KWorst company in America also #1 publisher for Western markets, iOS globally
It’s cool to hate Electronic Arts right now. Actually, it’s cool and it’s somewhat reasonable, since eventually a company can only have...
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2.3KWorld of Warplanes tutorial video
The team at Wargaming is ramping up their very-anticipated F2P MMO, World of Warplanes, and today they’ve got the first of a...
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1.7KSpiel des Jahres Winners Announced
Grammy. Emmy. Tony. Oscar. Spiel des Jahres? Considered the Oscar of the board game industry, the Spiel des Jahres is handed out...
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1.8KWorld of Warplanes goes Open Beta
The team at Wargaming have hit a major milestone with their upcoming F2P flyer, World of Warplanes – they just soared into...
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4.1KDon Mattrick Reportedly Leaving Xbox To Join Zynga?!
After a rocky reception for the recently announced Xbox One, AllThingsD is reporting that Xbox spokesman Don Mattrick will be leaving Microsoft to take...
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1.1KFraud and bankruptcy for Atlus parent company
I must admit that Atlus is one of my favorite video game publishers. They have brought over several games that are so...
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2.5KBrowser-based MMO City of Steam gets big update
The steampunk-inspired fantasy MMO City of Steam just got a fairly big update bringing back two races, adding a class, and reworking...
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2.2KTechno-Fantasy MMORPG Rift goes free-to-play starting today
Continuing with the free-to-play announcements today – Rift has formally gone free-to-play, allowing gamers to hop into the world of techno-magic, dragons...
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4.0KGuild Wars 2 – Dragon Bash
The folks at ArenaNet have announced the Guild Wars 2 Dragon Bash – a festival celebrating…well…celebrating bashing dragons! Mini-games, fireworks, cool wings,...
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1.5KRazer Blade is up for pre-orders
Thinner than a dime. It’s hard to believe how much raw POWER the folks at Razer have stuffed into the Blade. The...
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3.0KFinal Fantasy XIV release date announced
The team at Square Enix are almost ready to re-release the much-improved Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – their Massively Multiplayer...
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3.3KLayoffs at Trion Worlds
Reports are coming in from multiple sources that Trion Worlds has laid off approximately 100 people from their Defiance development team. The...
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2.2KRough conditions at 4A Games’ Ukrainian headquarters draws scrutiny, evokes pride amidst Metro: Last Light release
Andrew Prokhorov, the creative director of 4A Games, came out with a statement yesterday in response to semi-criticism from former THQ president...
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1.3KEA does away with Online Pass system
If you’ve purchased an EA title recently, you’re probably familiar with their very unpopular Online Pass system. Players require an Online Pass to...
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1.5KHEX: Shards of Fate fully funded
Backing something on Kickstarter can be a risky proposition. You never know what will come out from it, as our first impressions...
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2.7KSWTOR gets 2.1 update, customization
Star Wars: The Old Republic has doubled their user-base and income since going free-to-play, and they’ve certainly not slowed in terms of...
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1.0KExtraordinary losses strike Square-Enix
Extraordinary losses of the financial kind, not the flower-girl kind. Develop reports that everyone’s favorite developer of androgynous RPG heroes (among other things)...
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1.5KEA skips the Wii U for upcoming Frostbite 3 titles
Citing compatibility issues, DICE’s tech director Johan Andersson revealed on Twitter that Frostbite Engine 3 games won’t be coming to the Wii U....
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3.7KMechWarrior Online gets Misery, 4 trial mechs, and more
I know everyone is in gear-up-for-E3-mode, but hey….giant stompy mechs! We’ve got a sweet new trailer and some screenshots to unveil the...
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1.7KNeverwinter players enter the Whispering Caves (with a video!)
MMOs have always fascinated me. While I’m traditionally a solo-RPG player, the expansive nature of MMOs speaks to me on a level...
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1.3KGearbox and Sega get their very own lawsuit!
Want to know how to piss off the press? Show them a scripted CGI demo and then pass it off as “actual...
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1.6KNeverwinter enters Open Beta with a CG trailer to celebrate
It’s not often an MMO catches my attention, but let me say this about Neverwinter – I’m actually crafting in another browser...
