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The idea of shipping video games on disc will be completely dead in around a decade. That’s according to Take-Two president Karl Slatoff, who told the Credit Suisse Technology Conference that a purely digital future will arrive before too long. "I think over the long-term, it will be 100 per …

Session, a game that very much draws inspiration from EA’s much-loved Skate series, has smashed its Kickstarter target in just four days. Skate 3 was famously republished and pushed back out to retail four years after its initial release after a starring role in a number of PewDiePie videos. Now …

The motivations behind the decision to close Visceral Games and kill its Star Wars title are again in the spotlight. Speaking at the Credit Suisse Conference, EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said, as per Games Industry: “As we kept reviewing the game, it continued to look like a style of gaming, …

A deactivated cosmetics system has been found hidden away in the PC version of Star Wars Battlefront 2. A Redditor has found a currently inaccessible ‘change appearance’ option that allows various characters to rotate between as assortment of skins. The discovery itself would be of limited interest were it not …

Destiny 2 developer Bungie has pledged to be more open with fans after a period of growing unrest among its playerbase. The developer last week admitted that the game was artificially suppressing the amount of XP gained in some activities. This was discovered after fans became suspicious that the rate …

Three years after it was first supposed to be released, in-development space epic Star Citizen is now trying to sell digital land to hopeful space explorers. $50 will net players a 4km x 4km plot while $100 will grab an 8km x 8km space. Each will come with a ‘Geotack …

The 11th season of the X-Files TV show will be accompanied by a smartphone game. It’s called The X-Files: Deep State and is coming from FoxNext, which is the publisher behind the new Marvel Strike Force game which was announced in the wake of the confirmed closure of Marvel Heroes. …

It is now official – developer Gazillion Entertainment is no more. Its death also brings with it the immediate closure of Marvel Heroes. “It is with great sadness that we announce the closing of Gazillion Entertainment,” a statement read. “As a result, we are no longer able to operate Marvel …

The Star Wars Battlefront 2 controversy is hitting EA’s bottom line. CNBC reports that the company’s share price is down 8.5 per cent so far this month, wiping around $3bn off its value. In contrast, its larger rivals have seen share prices increase, as have the wider markets. It’s not …

Leading video platform YouTube has found itself yet again suffering a wave of advertiser unrest. The Guardian reports that companies such as Cadbury, Mars, Lidl and Adidas have pulled advertising from the site amid concerns about troubling comments left on videos featuring children. Some of these are explicit and some …