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dotarray writes:
Blizzard is making itself right at home in Australia, deploying a bunch of new game servers Down Under. This time, they're for upcoming MOBA release Heroes of the Storm, and the new speedy service should result in a smoother gameplay experience for fans in both Australia and New Zealand.
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dotarray writes:
It's been a while since we've heard from the team at Linden Lab, but the company's been secretly preparing to make a major comeback. CEO Ebbe Altberg has confirmed that a sequel to Second Life is in development, scheduled to hit public beta testing in 2015 — and it'll use the Oculus Rift VR headset.
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dotarray writes:
U.S. President Barack Obama has included The Witcher when asked his favourite things about Poland. He's in the country on a quick trip, and draws direct comparisons between the CD Projekt RED RPG and Poland on a larger scale.
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UgLyPuNk writes:
Australian game development students were surprised this morning when a programming exam included a question seemingly unrelated to their course material. Expecting to answer questions on maths, HTML and coding, students were instead faced with an ethical question about women in gaming.
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dotarray writes:
A torrent file claiming to be an early version of Watch_Dogs has leaked onto the internet days before the game's release, but it seems that gamers grabbing the file are getting more than they bargained for. A Bitcoin miner has been tucked into the archive, meaning that someone's potentially making big bucks off impatient pirates.
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dotarray writes:
Bad news for DayZ developer Bohemia Interactive, as it's revealed that an intruder has hacked their way into game servers, potentially accessing source code for the popular zombie survival game.
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dotarray writes:
George Broussard, the outspoken former president of 3D Realms has had a stroke — and the heavy social media user livetweeted the experience.
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UgLyPuNk writes:
The shutdown of Gamespy services is set to have a wider impact than fans had anticipated, with EA publishing a list of 50 games that will lose online functionality at the end of June, including Battlefield 2, Crysis.
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UgLyPuNk writes:
Yes, Epic Games is making a brand new Unreal Tournament, and it's only in development for PC, Mac and Linux. As if that wasn't enough of a bombshell, it's also going to be 100% free.
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UgLyPuNk writes:
Sunset Overdrive debuted at E3 2013 in a blaze of eye-searing neon, with an all-too-short teaser trailer that left everybody wanting more, desperate to find out what that was all about. Now, nearly 12 months later, it's time for Insomniac Games to take the wraps off... and time for us to put our sunglasses on. The super-bright colours and cartoon graphics have not been toned down. Sunset City is the messy, sprawling love child of Times Square and Harajuku, flat surfaces covered with advertising, streets crawling with mutants.
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dotarray writes:
John Carmack denies stealing intellectual property from former employer Bethesda to use at his new job at Oculus VR.
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UgLyPuNk writes:
Gearbox is sharing the Borderlands love, with the news that the studio is working with 2K Australia on the brand new, standalone Borderands: The Pre-Sequel. The new game is designed to fit neatly in the timeframe between Borderlands and Borderlands 2, and is set for release in the second half of 2014.
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dotarray writes:
Blizzard has let slip a teeny detail about just what it might be working on. A new trademark registration suggests that there's more going on at the studio than just the games we know about, and all the signs point to this being a very interesting development indeed. Could it finally be the shooter we've been hoping for?
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dotarray writes:
Last December, Kristoffer Von Hassel worked out a way of logging into his father's Xbox Live account to play games. His parents, who had set up the built-in passworded parental controls to prevent exactly that, were curious.
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dotarray writes:
Even though the announcement only mentions one game — the original Portal — and not its sequel, it marks an exciting milestone: This is the first time Valve has moved into the mobile space — the Shield is powered by Android. This suggests the Source Engine is happy to run on ARM processors, meaning that other Source games could potentially also make the leap to other ARM devices like mobile phones and tablets.
