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Diablo III producer leaves Blizzard
Newsbrief: Steven Parker, senior game producer on Diablo III at Blizzard Entertainment, has left the company after working there for more than…
STOP IT: Put Save Games In ONE Place
I’ve mentioned this flippantly before, in The Rules, but really I’m beyond exasperated now. I demand – DEMAND I say – a…
Guild Wars 2 open beta begins in March
The Guild Wars 2 open beta launches in March, ArenaNet has announced. “We recently finished our first closed beta test, and we’re…
Microsoft: Xbox 360 exclusives need “quality” not quantity
Xbox 360-exclusive games need to have “quality and impact”, Microsoft Studios exec Phil Spencer has insisted. Creating Xbox 360-only games and IP…
Resident Evil 6 six-player co-op confirmed?
Resident Evil 6 will support six-player online co-op play, according to now-removed information on the game’s official Xbox.com marketplace listing. Microsoft’s Resident…
Syphon Filter 4 out winter 2012, UK mag claims
PlayStation 3 exclusive Syphon Filter 4 launches winter 2012, UK magazine Play claims. The game, alongside God of War 4, will be…
Japanese hardware sales, January 9 – 15: Looking back edition
What with Resident Evil 6 being a real, honest-to-goodness thing now, we thought’d we’d take this opportunity to look back at the…
The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Platagolf
Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to…
Sniper Elite V2 trailer, dev diary and gallery explode in your face
Rebellion’s Sniper Elite V2 throws players behind enemy lines as an Allied soldier in World War II, strategically taking down Axis troops…
Feel-good Sunday post: 11-year-old makes games for cancer patients, charity
Game development has become more accessible to non-professionals with tool suites such as GameSalad, which is what 11-year-old Conner Haines used to…
The Drop: Week of January 23rd 2012 New Releases
Demo’s for The Darkness II and UFC Undisputed 3 headline this week’s The Drop with enough doses of awesome to quench your…
Resident Evil 4 on Android, exclusive to Korea’s LG LTE market (for now)
You know what the world needed? Another port of Resident Evil 4. Seriously though, up until now Android users have been left…
Vessel transforms from liquid to Steam on March 1
Indie studio Strange Loop Games has been working on Vessel since at least 2010, when it was nominated for the IGF award…
Indie Game: The Movie: The HBO comedy series, produced by Scott Rudin
Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky’s Indie Game: The Movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend, and already it’s gaining mainstream…
Xbox Marketplace: RE6 features 6-player online co-op, 8-player online multi
The Xbox Marketplace listing for Resident Evil 6 appears to contain some exceedingly juicy and entirely unannounced secrets about Capcom’s upcoming thriller….
Vita’s AT&T data-plan pricing structure pulls a switcheroo
Remember the pricing plan we unveiled for PlayStation Vita’s AT&T data service? Yeah, well, forget it. All of it. Well, most of…
Official Mario and Zelda songbooks now available in English
The musician/gamer hybrid isn’t as rare as one might think; spending five minutes on YouTube searching for “piano covers” is proof enough…
Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus screens have a delicate touch
When Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus launches alongside the PlayStation Vita late next month, its trademark difficulty level will likely be responsible for…