Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve, has called on Microsoft to relax its terms and conditions and allow other platforms onto Xbox Live so that the upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive can feature Steamworks integration.
UK retailer Game Group has emphatically denied that it has been coercing publishers into guaranteeing it a period of exclusivity before PC games are made available through Steam.
We spent an awful lot of time looking at loading screens while playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution (see our review of the game) - but we really needn’t have. Our problem was playing as an obsessive, but often incompetent, covert agent, hitting reload every time we bumbled out of cover into a guard’s line of sight.
Sony has repeatedly stated that its upcoming PSP successor PlayStation Vita is easy to develop for, and Wipeout 2048 developer Studio Liverpool has told us the claim is fully justified.
In an interview, game director Stuart Tilley tells us: "I think of all the PlayStations I've worked on, which is actually all of them, [Vita is] the easiest one to work with. The guys have given us a really good set of tools, allowing us to get up and running a lot quicker than we have previously, which is really good."
This is sure to reopen wounds, but is worth linking to - remarking on the whole Radical Fishing-Ninja Fishing cloning controversy, Ephriam Knight says that game developers should simply accept it:
Playdead, the Danish developer of Limbo, has told us that it is using the Unity platform for the development of its next project.
In an interview, CEO Dino Patti and game director Arnt Jensen explain that the decision was prompted by their experience of using a proprietary engine in development of Limbo.
Even the name tries to do too much. EYE: Divine Cybermancy is aimed so far beyond the capabilities of ten-person development team Streum On Studios that it doesn’t think to fix to the fundamentals upon which its highfalutin concept relies.
Featuring an in-depth look at Sony's powerful new Vita handheld as well as the first wave of games we can expect to play on it, the mag should start falling on subscribers doormats today and will be available from UK newsagents and Zinio on August 30.
We speak to Jaakko Iisalo, the man who gave life to Rovio's Angry Birds and find out from Valve composer Mike Morasky what it took to build Portal 2's soundtrack.
Gamers are always demanding new experiences. Fortunately then, game developers and platform holders have continually been dreaming up new ways in which to entertain us. Over the last ten years we’ve seen games focus on technology: increasing graphical fidelity, delivering more natural animation and improving AI and physics. More recently, new game experiences have been delivered by gestural interaction controllers such the Wii, Move and Kinect, also bringing with them a new audience.
The end-user licence agreement (EULA) in Electronic Arts' new distribution platform Origin collects and transmits extensive data about your computer and your use of it.
A member of The Escapist's forums first raised concern over the terms, which have since been posted in full by Rock Paper Shotgun. One clause, headed "Consent to collection and use of data," stipulates that EA will gather huge amounts of information about the software installed on users' PCs and how they are used, and either use the data for its own marketing or pass it to thirdparties.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has stepped down as company CEO after 15 years at the helm, and has been replaced by former chief operating officer Tim Cook.
Jobs, 56, revealed his decision in a statement issued last night. "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know," he said. "Unfortunately, that day has come.
Leading specialist retailer GameStop has admitted to a company-wide policy of removing OnLive vouchers for free, streaming copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution from the boxed PC version of the game sold in its stores.
Leading specialist retailer GameStop has admitted to a company-wide policy of removing OnLive vouchers for free, streaming copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution from the boxed PC version of the game sold in its stores.
FIFA 11 has returned to the top of the Nordic chart, which collates sales data from Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark.
Having briefly lost the number one spot to fellow EA title The Sims 3, FIFA 11 enjoyed its seventh week out of the last ten at the head of the rankings. On the individual formats chart, the football game was the best-selling PS3, Xbox 360 and PSP title.
Japanese PS3 sales rose almost 50 per cent last week following the introduction of a price cut, although the console remained the nation’s third best performer behind 3DS and PSP.
Having enjoyed a massive spike following its own markdown on August 11, 3DS managed to hold its lead during the week ended August 21, although sales fell from 196,077 units to 105,639.
Though it's the sequel to a slightly clunky original, you'd be forgiven for passing over iBlast Moki 2 as just another cartoony physics puzzler without a second thought. And when its start menu consists of the words 'Play, Create, Share' you begin to wonder if Sony's lawyers have iPhones.
You'd think Rally-X Rumble is all about cars, but really it's all about paint. Namco Bandai is frighteningly good at putting new spins on its classics, but Rally-X is a more difficult one than most – because, in all honesty, it was always decent rather than great. And the main mode in Rally-X Rumble is little more than a slick update to the original, rather than a flair-filled re-imagining a la Pac-Man Championship Edition.