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So Frank Gibeau does like single-player games after all. Yesterday the publisher exec seemed to dismiss non-multiplayer games by saying that he had not not green lit one game to be developed as a single player experience”. Of course, as is often the way with high-profile executives, that’s not what …
Read More »2K forced Yager to ‘tack on’ Spec Ops multiplayer
Additional player support was a failure and a waste of money, says lead designer Cory Davis
Read More »The cost of including multiplayer in Spec Ops: The Line
Spec Ops: The Line – a critical success and a commercial disappointment. It has a Metacritic score of 75 per cent, but that has to be considered in a wider context. Few titles have pushed the games press to think so hard, and few have dared to tackle a genre …
Read More »‘Call of Duty: Black Ops II can take eSports to the masses’
Call of Duty: Black Ops II’s brand new multiplayer has been inspired by the eSports phenomenon, the developer has told MCV. Both Activision and developer Treyarch took to the stage ahead of Gamescom in Cologne last night to reveal a new Call of Duty multiplayer that is not just targeting …
Read More »BioShock Infinite multiplayer axed following staff departures
Ken Levine asserts that Irrational's talent can still deliver
Read More »Report: Bioshock Infinite multiplayer canned
A pair of multiplayer modes may be out of Bioshock Infinite, following word yesterday that a handful of key staff had departed from the game’s development team. Kotaku reports that a pair of long-rumoured co-op modes have been completely axed from the game. The two modes included a tower-defense type …
Read More »Ouya confirms four-player support
Hackable console reaches $7.7m in final day of crowdfunding campaign
Read More »Glu Mobile acquires GameSpy
Publisher to integrate multiplayer server and matchmaking tools into future titles
Read More »Witcher developer hiring multiplayer programmer for upcoming titles
CD Projekt Red is apparently looking into multiplayer for one or more of its upcoming efforts. A job listing from The Witcher dev seeking a multiplayer programmer was spotted earlier today by CVG. It implied that at least one if not both of the studio’s upcoming projects, futuristic RPG Cyberpunk …
Read More »Max Payne 3 DLC wants your face
Rockstar is offering the chance for players to get their likenesses into Max Payne 3’s multiplayer mode. This is the second – and last – opportunity for four lucky gamers to get their mugs modelled onto selectable multiplayer avatars for the autumn DLC pack. Beginning tomorrow, and for all of …
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