Tag Archives: Development

The issue of developer crunch has been coming up a lot lately, with extensive reports on the issue plaguing many major studios, including Rockstar, Epic Games, NetherRealm, BioWare and more. CD Projekt Red has been relatively open about the fact that it goes through ‘crunch’ periods during development. Now ahead …

2018 held more marked developments and revelations concerning the field of AI than ever before, yet the public at large seems more concerned with its potential shortcomings than its inevitable benefits. These concerns are hardly unfounded yet could prove troublesome for the future development of machine learning processes. After all, …

Microsoft has taken fans through the ringer when it comes to Crackdown 3. The game was announced too early, the game’s cloud gaming features were too ambitious and development has struggled over the years. At this point, we wouldn’t be surprised if the game was delayed a fourth time, but …

Back in 2016, Nightdive Studios successfully took to Kickstarter to crowdfund a remake of System Shock, with the goal of bringing the classic up to today’s graphical standards while maintaining beloved gameplay and story elements. Over time, the studio got more and more ambitious, which transformed the project into something …

The Québécois government has announced EA will be upping its existing investment in the city of Montréal and – over the course of 10 years – bring 500 new jobs and an estimated $500 million, presumably Canadian, to the dinner table. Montréal is where EA’s Bioware studios have been hard …

Original Left 4 Dead creator Turtle Rock, has announced in a heartfelt message, that it will no longer be developing monster slaying, asymmetrical multiplayer title, Evolve. While the servers will remain online for continued play, no more content updates or DLC releases can be expected. Its future is in the …

If the robots ever do decide to take over, at least we’ll have plenty of people to blame. Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and IBM have all formed a partnership to help further the cause of AI development and acceptance the world over. It’s not a lobby group, we’re told, but …

As much as there are still a lot of people with their fingers crossed that one day Valve will release an update to its Half Life and Portal Universes, it may be that the stories are expanded through movies next. There’s been rumours of both hitting the big screen at …

Far Cry: Primal may have completely changed setting, with the spin-off title going back to prehistoric times. However, that doesn’t mean that the world’s layout has changed as a comparison image between Far Cry Primal and Far Cry 4’s map shows that the layout is almost unchanged, with many things …

Early last year, Microsoft announced Project Astoria, a tool designed to allow developers to easily port their Android apps over to Windows 10, a similar tool known as Project Islandwood was also announced for porting iOS apps to Windows 10. Now almost a year later, Microsoft has announced that it …

From duct tape prototype, right through the developer versions to the final product, we’ve seen the Oculus Rift from its inception through to its consumer version, but not so with rival VR headset, the HTC Vive. Fortunately though we have VR Product Specialist at HTC, Shen Ye, tweeting out images of …

Nintendo is working on a brand new Paper Mario for the Wii U, if unnamed sources via certain Twitter accounts are to be believed. Supposedly five separate sources have confirmed it and the game is currently undergoing localisation and testing, so presumably isn’t too far from release. This news first …

What does $100 million buy you in game development? So far it’s purchased the fans of Star Citizen a second Alpha, as with the continued expansion of the number of backers – now over one millon – and ever increasing pledges, that astronomical total has now been reached. The celebratory …

When it comes to the Final Fantasy series, Square Enix has a track record of taking its time to get a new game out, with the most obvious example right now being Final Fantasy XV. So when Final Fantasy VII: Remake was announced, many assumed we wouldn’t see the game …

Up and coming game developers in the UK now have another avenue to explore in the quest for production budgets, as the UK Games Fund, a self-described “community interest company,” non-profit designed to aid the British game making economy, has just received a £4 million grant from the government. That …

Konami wasn’t too happy with the time it took to develop Metal Gear Solid V or the amount it cost to make. Now it looks like the publisher is looking to ditch video games all together- well, for the most part. According to new reports, Konami has now ceased triple-A …

With the launch of The Witcher: Wild Hunt, CD Projekt Red has comfortably made a name for itself in the mainstream gaming market, which would make the studio quite attractive to larger publishers. GOG has also become more popular over the past year, which has spurred rumours that CD Projekt …

The first wave of consumer virtual reality headsets are on the way, kicking off with Valve’s headset, supposedly at some point this year, followed by the Oculus Rift next year and finally, Sony’s console oriented headset, Project Morpheus. We have been following Morpheus for some time now but it looks …

Sony has gone ahead and set up a new first party studio to create virtual reality games for the upcoming Project Morpheus headset. The studio will be located in North West England and it will focus entirely on developing for virtual reality. News of the studio first broke when  Sony …

If you have been following virtual reality news for a while now then you probably heard that the Oculus Rift consumer edition is launching at the start of next year. However, if you are a Mac or Linux user, you are going to have to wait a bit longer. Oculus …

Microsoft announced the Hololens back in January and recently showed the device off a bit more at its annual Build conference last night. Now, Unity, the company behind the popular Unity Engine has announced that it will be fully supporting the augmented reality lenses. The announcement was made in an …

Google shut down its Glass explorers program earlier this year, bringing development of the wearable back behind closed doors. However, it turns out that Google is already ready to show off early versions of Glass 2, reportedly sending prototype units out to selected partners. The few people to have a …

Zenimax, parent company of Bethesda, has gone ahead and sent a cease and desist letter to the developer of mobile game, Fortress Fallout, demanding that the game stop using the word ‘Fallout’ in its name. Xreal, the studio behind the small mobile game will no longer be able to use …

Blizzard has plans to continue to expand on the Heroes of the Storm character roster, map selection and game modes in order to prevent the game from becoming “stale”, until the studio gets “sick of it”, according to the game’s director. Heroes of the Storm game director, Dustin Browder, recently …

Gearbox Software is gearing up to start work on Borderlands 3 the development studio has reveled. Gearbox President, Randy Pitchford, teased the game during a panel at PAX South over the weekend, following the panel, he tweeted out that the studio was hiring for the upcoming project. “We are recruiting …

Making a AAA game takes a long time. Years in-fact, but the original vision of what that game would be isn’t necessarily the one that is carried through to the release day. Take the case of Evolve, where today we have hunters with specific roles, locked equipment and some varied …

The development of a real, thinking AI, will perhaps be – when achieved – mankind’s most crowning achievement. The true creation of an artificial life form. While we’re still a way off from that, development of something akin to what we see in any of the many new and upcoming movies …

Too often it seems that the protagonists in our games are the same muscle bound, shaved headed super soldiers. Some titles offer character customisation or play with our expectations, but I don’t think I’ve ever played as a marked-for-death teen before. And that’s exactly what we’ll get to do in the upcoming …

The highly anticipated upcoming PC version of Grand Theft Auto V is apparently being worked on by the same development team that made the PC version of Max Payne 3 according to new rumors. This should be good news as Max Payne 3 is widely considered to be Rockstar’s best …

Project Vaulderie, a fan remake of Vampire: The Masquerade, has been shut down by CCP Games, the developers behind Eve Online. According to the group behind the fan development project, they were served with a Cease and Desist letter, essentially shutting down development of the remake. The aim of Project …