Brian Fargo's bid to fund a sequel to revered top-down RPG Wasteland on Kickstarter has come to a close, raising a total of $2,933,197 from 61,289 backers.
A further $107,137 was pledged through Paypal, taking the project past the $3 million barrier, meaning Fargo's team will now produce mod tools for the game.
22Cans, the new studio founded by Peter Molyneux, is looking for a number of interns and graduates from mathematics and computer science backgrounds to form part of the studio's core programming team. In addition, the developer is also looking to fill several experienced software development engineer spaces. It's a great opportunity to join a studio at the beginning of its life and become part of its evolution.
Media lecturer at Hackney Community College (and lover of red velvet cakes, apparently) Anna Johnson's follow was the one that pushed us over the threshold, this morning.
EA has at last amended its Origin ban policy, allowing players who have been banned from the company's online services to play singleplayer games.
Our May issue, which goes on sale April 11, features a Post Script interview with Trials Evolution creative director Antti Ilvessuo about how RedLynx balanced the game’s difficulty in light of Trials HD’s reputation for being tough as nails, how it achieved such thematic diversity, and if it regrets settling for a dude in a racing helmet as a mascot.
The popularity of the Call Of Duty series is on the wane, analysts claim, with sales of Modern Warfare 3 lagging behind its predecessor Black Ops despite the former performing more strongly at launch.
I once likened the ubiquity of Angry Birds to that familiar post-apocalyptic scenario where 99% of the population has fallen victim to a mysterious virus while the remaining few are miraculously unaffected. By happy accident I was led to the revelation that Angry Birds was indeed viral: a ludic contagion equivalent to a YouTube video of a cat playing a piano. People played Angry Birds because their friends were playing it, because celebrities were discussing it; because it was the latest cultural touchstone about which everyone had to have an opinion.
They call it ‘sisu’ in Finland. It’s a small word for a big concept, one large enough to define the national character. In his book From Finland With Love, Roman Schatz describes it as an ability to finish a task in the face of adversity. Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila once translated it as a special kind of guts, a mindset of endurance against all odds that allowed the company to dominate the mobile market. It’s a shorthand for Nordic determination, and a belief that giving up isn’t an option.
Microsoft and Sony will both hold E3 press conferences on Monday June 4.
The Xbox maker will be first to announce its plans for the rest of 2012 and possibly beyond, with its conference kicking off at 10am Pacific time (6pm UK time). Sony’s conference will follow at 6pm Pacific (2am UK).
Nintendo is to announce a new Super Mario Bros. game for Wii U at E3 in June.
Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto first revealed the plan to Spanish paper El Mundo, which interviewed the talismanic designer last week while he was in Paris to promote the new 3DS tour guide at the Louvre.
Nintendo is to announce a new Super Mario Bros. game for Wii U at E3 in June.
Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto first revealed the plan to Spanish paper El Mundo, which interviewed the talismanic designer last week while he was in Paris to promote the new 3DS tour guide at the Louvre.
Electronic Arts has announced Crysis 3, the third game in German developer Crytek's futuristic shooter series, which will be released next spring.
You might expect Aardman’s headquarters to be more in keeping with the quaint British idiom of its animations – some sort of cobblestone-and-thatch structure, maybe, cluttered with eccentric machines and questionable taxidermy, topped with a giant tea-cosy. Instead, its offices are rather more dazzling – the sheer glass frontage gives way to a long, multi-level hall of wood and metal, which towers and tapers away. It’s like an Imperial Star Destroyer made out of negative space, and full of the most wonderful toys.
Fez developer Polytron says it is aware of, and working on, a number of "pretty serious" bugs in its XBLA puzzle-platformer.
Since the game launched on Friday users have reported a range of issues, including corrupted save files, freezes, slowdown and, in some cases, the game failing to boot at all. In a post on the Polytron blog, programmer Renaud Bédard apologises and assures users that a patch is on the way.
Electronic Arts is to lay off between 500 and 1,000 staff, sources claim, reducing its total workforce by five to 11 per cent, raising questions over the future of CEO John Riccitiello.
Multiple sources have confirmed to Startup Grind that EA originally intended to announce the layoffs this time last week; instead, confirmation is expected in the coming days.
FIFA Street is once again number one in the UK all-formats software chart, as last week's number one, Kinect Star Wars, slips to number four.
EA's five-a-side football game retakes top spot despite sales falling 22 per cent week on week. Sales fell across the board; Kinect Star Wars' were down by 55 per cent.
As action games have evolved, so too have the sensibilities of designers as pertains to different core elements of gameplay. It wasn’t that long ago, for example, that the standard in FPS design was having ten guns that the player could carry, with each of them also having an alt-fire mode.
Valve has revealed it’s conducting research and development into “wearable computing”, which the company likens to “Terminator vision”.
Game Group appears to have mended its relationship with Electronic Arts and is now offering March releases and former chart-toppers Mass Effect 3 and FIFA Street online.
MCV reports that the retailer is likely to begin stocking key EA titles in-store again next week.
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure is the new number one on the Nordic chart, which collates sales data from Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark.
Activision's title jumps five places to secure the top spot, knocking EA's five-a-side football title FIFA Street down to number two, ahead of Battlefield 3, FIFA 12 and Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
The only new entry this week is Kinect Star Wars at number eight.
01. Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (Activision)
Game Group, the UK's largest specialist videogame retailer, has sold off its 291-store portfolio in Spain and Portugal.
MCV reports that the buyer is Cherrilux Investments which, like Baker Acquisitions, the company that bought Game's UK stores out of administration, was set up by private equity firm OpCapita for the purpose of the deal.
There are just a few days of development time left in the Edge Create Challenge 2012, so as the final weekend looms into view we can now reveal the judges who will be playing your submissions and choosing a winner.
First up is former Bungie game designer and now occupier of the same role at Sucker Punch Productions, Jaime Griesemer; and Media Molecule co-founder and creative director Mark Healey.
EA is trying to lure back lapsed players of BioWare's Star Wars MMOG The Old Republic by offering them a week of free play.
The deal, which kicks off today, is timed to coincide with the launch of the Legacy update, which EA says is much larger than the 1.1 update released in January. Further details on the update content can be found at the game's official site.
Fatal Frame spinoff Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir will be released for 3DS on June 29, Nintendo has confirmed.
The game, which in a handy coincidence is released in the US today, uses the 3DS camera and augmented reality features to, Nintendo says, "scare you in brand new ways."
Tecmo Koei's Fatal Frame series - known in PAL territories as Project Zero - debuted on PS2 and Xbox in 2001. The second game in the series has been remade for Wii, and will also be released in Europe on June 29.
Game Group appears to be back on good terms with Nintendo and is stocking the Limited Edition of Wii RPG Pandora's Tower.