Electronic Arts has unveiled Origin, a digital distribution platform for PC, which will exclusively host downloads of BioWare's hotly anticipated Star Wars MMOG, The Old Republic (above), when it is released later this year.
Set to launch this afternoon, Origin will offer an initial lineup of over 150 games, and in the coming months will also sell exclusive limited editions of upcoming games including Battlefield 3 and FIFA 12.
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) is to pay the tuition fees of two students on Birmingham City University's game development course, Gamer Camp: Pro.
Game developers of all sizes work on projects that for one reason or another get abandoned. Sometimes the projects just fall flat of original intentions or outside factors force a shutdown. In some cases, these projects act as warning signals and shape the way the company works, or open new doors.
Jack Claw was a project here at Frozenbyte that took a while to incubate and even longer to foster, just to be shut down two years later when the reality hit us in the face, despite the game showing a lot of promise.
Hideo Kojima has unveiled Fox Engine, a development platform that he says will see future Kojima Productions released on multiple platforms with shorter development cycles.
"Up until now we have been developing games exclusively for specific platforms, but in the future we look to go more global," he told GameTrailers in an interview. "We are paving the road to to multiplatform for future titles. Hopefully we can push out great games with shorter development times."
Did anyone tell Polish developer CD Projekt to stop making roleplaying games about a scarred old man in leather trousers? If so, it was in vain. The Witcher 2 is unapologetically faithful to the 2007 original and its hoary protagonist, eager depiction of sex, and morally bleak fantasy world.
Cloud gaming service OnLive has confirmed that it will launch in the UK this autumn.
The service launched in the US last year, and next week will see its library of games swell to a hundred with the addition of Red Faction: Armageddon. More than 40 publishers offer their games on the service, the latest being Disney Interactive.
Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment's worldwide studios, has told Edge that he does not see the firm's upcoming handheld, codenamed Next Generation Portable (NGP), as competing with smartphones or 3DS. Instead, he draws parallels with Apple's iPad.
Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment’s Worldwide Studios, is a veteran of the company he joined in 1986. He was also one of the people behind the PlayStation project that began in 1993 with later roles in thirdparty licensing and the initiation of SCE’s internal product development team. At a slick London hands-on event we sat down with Yoshida to find out what NGP brings to handheld gaming, and why portable isn’t always preferable.
Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment’s Worldwide Studios, is a veteran of the company he joined in 1986. He was also one of the people behind the PlayStation project that began in 1993 with later roles in thirdparty licensing and the initiation of SCE’s internal product development team. At a slick London hands-on event we sat down with Yoshida to find out what NGP brings to handheld gaming, and why portable isn’t always preferable.
When we started discussing the look of Chime Super Deluxe the team were all of one mind: the original was too simple. “Too flat! Too plain! Too chunky!”, we cried. It was not refined or delicate or 'high-def' enough for what it should have been. Unanimously there was a desire to see a sharper take on things.
The British Academy Of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is to launch its videogames branch in the United States, with the formation of a committee based in Los Angeles, and an interview with The Sims creator Will Wright on Sunday night.
This review was originally published in issue 224 of Edge back in February. Delays to the game's release followed by the PSN outtage mean that the build we played differs from the one which became available on PSN today.
Indie Fund, the group put together by several prominent independent developers to give other indies an alternative to traditional publisher funding, has announced that it is backing Dan Pinchbeck's Dear Esther.