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Two popular space games are arriving on PlayStation 4 this week. Space ship building simulator Kerbal Space Program is making its debut on Sony’s console tomorrow (July 12th). The title spent two years on Steam’s Early Access and was released on PC last year. Meanwhile, virtual reality survival game Adrift …
Read More »Zynga to sell San Francisco HQ
Mobile studio acquired location in 2012 for $228 million, which could now be worth more than half a billion dollars
Read More »New Horizons Pluto probe powered by original PlayStation processor
There are a lot of things that ran on the first PlayStation – Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII, Crash Bandicoot. But what about an interplanetary space probe? Well, thanks to NASA, Sony’s inaugural games hardware has taken one bold three-billion mile step for man. That’s because the space agency …
Read More »Star Citizen adds pets as crowdfunding giant tops $65m
Upcoming space sim and undisputed crowdfunding champion of the world Star Citizen has surpassed $65m in total funds received, thanks in part to developer Cloud Imperium’s promise of in-game pets. In a post on the Star Citizen’s official site, creator Chris Roberts revealed that the dev team would implement cats, …
Read More »VIDEO: New Elite: Dangerous trailer released
Galactic MMO Elite: Dangerous has emerged from E3 with a new trailer. Frontier Developments showcased the new trailer, which offers a detailed look at the gameplay in Elite: Dangerous. The footage shows off the open-world gameplay of Elite: Dangerous as players board their spacecraft and head out into the vast …
Read More »The Last of Us: Remastered is struggling to fit on a Blu-ray disc
Naughty Dog has said that disc space, as opposed to hardware limitations, are proving the biggest challenge for PS4 title The Last of Us: Remastered. The PS3 original used a host of tricks such as swapping out the high-quality character models used for cut scenes with lower-details versions for gameplay. …
Read More »Hello Games to "risk everything all over again" with No Man’s Sky
UK studio Hello Games realises that attempting to break into the increasingly crowded ‘Is This The Next Elite?’ genre is a risk. It’s freshly revealed game No Man’s Sky (the trailer for which can be seen below) was the surprise hit of last weekend’s VGX Awards. And the Joe Danger …
Read More »There’s a one-off $1,000,000 version of Saints Row IV
Deep Silver has announced the most extravagant video game SKU ever seen – and of course it’s for the flamboyant Saints Row IV. In May MCV reported on what was then the world’s most expensive video game, the 125,000 Grid 2 Mono Edition. Well, forget that. GAME is now offering …
Read More »VIDEO: X Rebirth gets release date, promises radical overhaul
Cult PC developer Egosoft has at last confirmed what appears to be a firm release date for X Rebirth. The epic space exploration sim is scheduled for release on PC in North America on November 15th. The studio has also released a highly impressive trailer for the game that can …
Read More »Nintendo UK not pulling Wii U Basic in UK… but will retail pull the plug regardless?
Wii U is entering a perilous period at UK retail. It was reported this morning that GameStop is removing its Wii U Basic 8GB stock from shelves in the US and returning it to Nintendo. Neither Nintendo or GameStop has responded officially to the claims. Nintendo UK, however, has confirmed …
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