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A potential bombshell could be coming from the direction of Valve HQ, followingreports last monththat the company would consider its own hardware. The PC developer and digital distribution giant is actually well beyond that point The Vergewagers. According to their sources, the company has been working on a hardware spec …
Read More »Silent Hill titles suffer slight delays
A trio of Silent Hill games will suffer slight delays, publisher Konami has announced. Silent Hill: Book of Memories, Silent Hill: Downpour, and the Silent Hill: HD Collection will all still be available in March, but later in the month than their originally targeted launches. Downpour will now hit Xbox …
Read More »Sony unveiling new Vita titles next week
Sony has revealed it will spill the beans on a group of unannounced Vita titles during a web broadcast the company will hold at the end of next week. The broadcast is titled ‘Welcome! PlayStation Vita Game Heaven,’Andriasang reports. According to the announcement, the broadcast will have information on unannounced …
Read More »EA suspends Battlefield 3: Aftershock support
EA has revealed it has ceased development and support of Battlefield 3: Aftershock, following recent reports that the company pulled the shooter franchise spinoff from the App Store in response to negative reviews. Customers had specificially being complaining of connection issues and unusable controls. "In the interest of bringing consumers …
Read More »Borderlands 2 PC using Steamworks
2K Games has announced that all editions of Borderlands 2 on PC will rely on Valve’s Steamworks suite. Developer Gearbox will be using Steamworks’ capabilities for multiplayer matchmaking, Steam Cloud storage, achievements, auto-patching, releasing DLC, and more. Valve’s service also works effectively as a simple DRM system for the game. …
Read More »Minecraft dev Mojang hires community members
Minecraft developer Mojang Specifications has acquired some new employees straight from its own community to help enhance server support for its massively popular sandbox title. The new hires were selected from the Minecraft community; specifically, the top four developers of Bukkit, a community-based group focused on Minecraft server implementation. [The …
Read More »Modern Warfare 3 Content Collection #1 hits Xbox Live this month
Activision has revealed Xbox Live release dates for the first of four Modern Warfare 3 content collections, with Call of Duty Elite premium status members scoring a chunk of the DLC a week early. Content Collection #1 brings the Liberation, Piazza, Overwatch and Black Box maps for multiplayer, along with …
Read More »Toshihiro Nagoshi named SEGA chief creative officer
Toshihiro Nagoshi, who headed up the teams that launched the Super Monkey Ball and Yakuza series, has been promoted to chief creative officer. Sega is in the midst of a major shift in its corporate structure upon the retirement of its chief operating officer, Okitane Usui. The executive will leave …
Read More »PSN maintenance scheduled this week
The PlayStation Network will be down for scheduled maintenancelater this week, with the disruption affecting service inboth US and Europe regions. The maintenancewill last roughly 14 hours,and during that time any functions such as online multiplayer that require the service will be unavailable for users. "Unlike typical maintenance events, consumers …
Read More »EA clarifies Origin’s auto-add feature
EA has responded to reports that its digital distribution service Origin has been auto-adding games purchased from competitors such as Steam. A few of you noticed some of your older EA games showing up in your Origin My Games library over the past few weeks and I wanted to clear …
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