Epic Games had signed a deal with Sony for the use of Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 on the PS Vita awhile back already, but are now not fully backing the upcoming handheld as far as in-house development goes. Epic Games’ president, Mike Capps told GamesIndustryBiz in a recent interview that Epic’s reluctance towards investing in the Playstation Vita is due to the…
Thankfully, Miyamoto now aged 59, is not completely closing the curtain on gaming, but has told Wired.com in an interview that he is stepping down from his current position to concentrate on smaller, more personal projects. Any avid gamer from any generation should know the name of the grand creator of ‘Super Mario Bros.’, ‘Donkey Kong’ and the more recent…
Microsoft has now joined EA and Sony in preventing you – the U.S. consumer at least – from dragging them to court if you feel the need to dispute something with them. Rather, any disputes should be settled with “informal negotiations”. Of course, one has to wonder which party will be entitled to bring the gun to a knife fight.…
And we’ll give you one guess as to where the announcement will occur… go on. Yes, the Spike VGAs. That’s about as much excitement as I can muster however. The next Tony Hawk game has a lot of repair work to do to the franchise. But, it’s not fair to be a glass is half empty guy, so let’s be…
The Witcher 2 creators, CD Projekt told PC Gamer in an interview that their flagship RPG title has been illegally downloaded 4.5 million times. CEO and co-founder Marcin Iwinski explained that he had calculated the figure by monitoring stats on torrent sites, and that this is an estimation. “I was checking regularly the number of concurrent downloads on torrent aggregating sites,…
An “entirely fresh and new experience” is how Cliff Bleszinski – Epic Games’ design director – describes the new game that Epic will be announcing at the Spike VGAs this coming Saturday. What’s it about? Well, your guess is as good as ours – maybe even better. Epic Games TeaseGet More: Epic Games Tease
So tomorrow (6 December) the new Dashboard arrives at an unknown time. It promises to be innovative and… blah-blah-blah. Frankly, as a South African I don’t give a damn. They could keep the old one for all I care. Yes, the dashboard looks great – slick and contemporary – and is packed with features like ‘Beacons’ and, erm, stuff, but…
Those are the words of Obsidian’s Fallout: New Vegas director Joshua Sawyer which is – in his opinion – the cause of the technology problems still effecting the PS3 version of Skyrim. While he did not have any involvement in the development of Skyrim, it’s safe to assume his knowledge of the platforms give him valuable insight and knowledge of…
Microsoft are integrating the entertainment system via Kinect by bringing gaming, TV and social media together in one unit with advanced voice and motion controls. The user becomes the remote control through voice and gesture control and this new feature marks the most significant update from Microsoft for the Xbox 360. TV, video, movies and music will be instantly searchable,…
These EA rumours are coming thick and fast – first a FPS Dead Space, then multiplayer in Dragon Age and now it’s being claimed that the third game in the Army of Two series is actually Army of Four – featuring four player co-op. A Kotaku insider – most likely the same one who gave the other tips – claims…