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Microsoft and Team Dakota have announced that Project Spark will be shut down later this year. The creative title is now longer available to download for either Xbox or PC. Online services for existing owners will be shut down in August, after which time user created content will no longer …
Read More »Microsoft’s Project Spark to be discontinued in August
Dissolution of team behind Xbox One and PC creation tool following end of active development last year cited as cause for cancellation
Read More »Conker’s Big Reunion cancelled as Microsoft ceases Project Spark DLC support
Game goes completely free with no microtransactions
Read More »Project Spark is dropping microtransactions
Xbox One title Project Spark is ditching its free-to-play elements and becoming a properly free game. From October 5th all of the title’s previously premium content will be offered for free to both new and existing users. On the same day developers Team Dakota and Skybox Labs will introduce a …
Read More »Project Spark receives premium Year One Edition release
Free-to-play creation suite Project Spark is now available in a $50 Year One Edition. The Xbox One and PC title was released last October, since when it has been downloaded nearly 3m times. This new SKU bundles nearly all of its premium content together and also includes three months Project …
Read More »No new Conker game coming from Rare
Studio is working on “something else” while classic character is being introduced to Project Spark
Read More »Rare isn’t making a new Conker game, but Conker IS coming to Project Spark
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has confirmed that whatever it is Rare may be working on, it isn’t a new Conker game. However, Project Spark developer Team Dakota is working on a Conker Build Pack featuring assets that players can use to create their own Conker content and has also developed …
Read More »Project Spark joins the busy October release schedule
Xbox One exclusive Project Spark finally has a release date. The creative interactive world build will be released for Xbox One and Windows 8.1 in the UK on October 10th. In the same week gamers will also have the choice of shelling out for Sega’s Alien: Isolation and Middle-earth: Shadow …
Read More »Project Spark attracts one million players
Conker makes cheeky cameo in E3 trailer
Read More »Project Spark microtransactions scaled back
Xbox One title Project Spark has undergone some changes to its microtransaction model. OXM reports that developer Team Dakota has removed the cap on ‘Spark Time’ which effectively limited the amount of time players could spend on the game without paying up. Tokens that allow for the unlocking of some …
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