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19 years ago, System 3 partnered up with publisher Acclaim to release city-building title Constructor. The game became a cult hit, launching on PlayStation, PC and Mac, and went onto sell over 5m units. Now System 3 is bringing the series back, releasing a new HD version. It’s launching later …
Read More »Microsoft closing Xbox Fitness app
Platform holder Microsoft has announced that it ditching its Fitness app on the Xbox One. Writing on the Microsoft Studios website, marketing and social media specialist Erica Bell said that the company has opted to scale back its support for Xbox Fitness due to the realities of having to update …
Read More »Zelda: Breath of the Wild must sell 2m copies to be profitable, report
Upcoming Wii U and NX The Legend of Zelda game Breath of the Wild has to sell more than 2m units in order to make back its development costs. That’s according to a translation of Nintendo’s latest investor Q&A by Twitter user Cheesemeister3k, in which Shigeru Miyamoto is reported to …
Read More »Three Tetris films coming up because story is too big for just one
The producer of the upcoming Tetris movie has explained why it is the first part in a trilogy. Speaking to film publication Empire, Larry Kasanoff said that the story they have in mind for the film is ‘so big’ that they need three films to cover it. In May, it …
Read More »Minecraft film set for 2019 release
Mojang has revealed that the Minecraft film is launching in just under three years. In a post on the developer’s website, COO Vu Bui announced that the film will be hitting the silver screen on May 24th, 2019. Furthermore, the flick will be coming out in 3D and Imax, too. …
Read More »Batman: Return to Arkham HD collection delayed
Warner Bros’ Batman: Return to Arkham HD collection will not be hitting its July release date. In a post on the publisher’s community forum, a member of Warner Bros staff, Steve Grayson, announced that the title had been delayed indefinitely. The reason for this is apparently to give Virtuous Games …
Read More »G2A announces new measures to appease game developers
Key-reseller marketplace G2A has revealed some improvements to its offering to keep game companies happy. The firm has announced that studios and publishers can now make money from third-party auctions. One of the criticisms levelled at G2A by publishers was that they didn’t see a penny from some sales of …
Read More »CEO Michiel Bakker on Ginx’s eSports bet
At the start of June, popular video games show VGN was dropped by broadcaster Challenge and production firm Ginx. Just ten days later, Ginx announced it was launching a 24-hour eSports channel with Sky and ITV. We had been reviewing our programming output for some time,” Ginx CEO Michiel Bakker …
Read More »The Big Game: Battlefield 1
If you ever needed a solid indication that consumers weren’t exactly satisfied with the state of the shooter genre, you need only look at the reaction to Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare this year. The reveal trailer for the former, a first-person shooter set during World War …
Read More »Ginx TV wants to put eSports in every home in the world
Games TV broadcaster Ginx wants to ‘dominate’ the world with its eSports coverage. The firm has partnered with ITV and Sky to launch a 24-hour pro-gaming channel, Ginx eSports TV, and its CEO Michiel Bakker has told MCV that it wants to get this into every home in the world. …
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