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Sniper Elite V2 is set during World War II, one of the most explored areas of history when it comes to video games, but the development team at Rebellion believes that it is the right time to explore the setting once again.
Steve Hart, the senior producer working on Sniper Elite V2 at Rebellion, told GamerZines that... |
25 January 2012
04:23 GMT |
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A lot of older gamers were negatively surprised when developer Starbreeze and publisher Electronic Arts announced that they were planning to revive the old Syndicate franchise in the form of a first-person shooter, but the for the game creators the genre was a perfect fit.
Mikael Nermark, the chief executive officer... |
24 January 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Eric Hirshberg, who is the Chief Executive Officer at Activision Publishing, told the audience at the Creativity and Technology event organized by Advertising Age that, “I said, like it or not our launch just started. And it wasn’t on our time table, and we didn’t instigate it, but it’s out th... |
20 January 2012
15:11 GMT |
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id Software has confirmed that it has laid off a number of employees recently, although it refused to say exactly how many people were let go.Bethesda, the parent company of id Software, has said that the development process for the upcoming Doom 4 was not affected and that the restructuring process was not in any wa... |
11 January 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Hideo Kojima, the man behind the well known Metal Gear Solid franchise, has said that one of the big problems with video game design is that sequels and AAA shooters are taking most of the audience and tend to limit innovation.Speaking to the Official PlayStation Magazine the Japanese developer has stated, “It&... |
5 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Alan Kertz, who is a core gameplay designer working at DICE on the first person shooter Battlefield 3, has launched a discussion on Reddit, seeking feedback from players on a number of changes that the development team is aiming to make to the accessories side of the equipment loadaout.The DICE developer says that, &... |
4 January 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Quite a lot of great first-person shooters have been released this year, with two special ones, Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 being released in quick succession, one after another. While both those titles were very good, the best shooter experience I had this year was with Crysis 2. Crytek stomped... |
29 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Gamers who spend impressive amounts of time in Battlefield 3 have noticed a possible teaser pointing that the developers at DICE are already working on a new science fiction themed game in the series.The BF3Blog site has noticed that the number 2143 appears on a wall in the Wake Island multiplayer map, which might me... |
19 December 2011
10:32 GMT |
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The Red Cross announced that it planned to hold discussions about how video game developers reflected humanitarian law in the experiences they create and the Red Cross was quickly attacked for taking on issues that were outside its area of competency.But the organization seems determined to highlight the subject and ... |
9 December 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Battlefield 3 might have not managed to beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in terms of sales but the game has nonetheless been a hit for publisher Electronic Arts and, according to one leading executive, a good thing for the video game industry.Speaking to IndustryGamers as part of a bigger interview Peter Moore, wh... |
8 December 2011
21:41 GMT |
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Eric Brown, who is the Chief Financial Officer at video game publisher Electronic Arts, has told an audience at the Baird Technology Conference that the DICE created first person shooter Battlefield 3 has been sold more than 8 million times since launch, with 12 million copies shipped to retailer during the same peri... |
30 November 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Dusty Welch, who was a senior vice president and the leader of publishing at Activision, has created a new games studio called U4iA Games, with the ultimate aim being to create a free-to-play and browser-powered FPS that will be more popular than the Call of Duty series.
Speaking about his new studio and his next pr... |
30 November 2011
02:29 GMT |
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Raptr, the social gaming service that tracks player behavior and playtime, has announced that on the Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft, the platform that is widely seen as the most first person shooter oriented of the current generation, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has beat Battlefield 3 in terms of playtime by... |
21 November 2011
05:25 GMT |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim might just be the biggest role playing game launched of 2012 and at least one leading develop linked to the genre believes that this type of game can dominate the future of video games as long as writers and developers take care to create complex, believable worlds.Speaking at the GDC Chin... |
14 November 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Sledgehammer Games saw the opportunity to work on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 as a perfect way to deliver their best work, even if this meant working under a lot of pressure.
Michael Condrey, who is the co-founder and the chief operations officer at Sledgehammer Games, stated, “I’d be dishonest if I s... |
10 November 2011
02:40 GMT |
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To the surprise of actually no one, Activision has confirmed that 2012 will see the release of a brand new Call of Duty game, although no actual details have been given by the large games publisher.The Call of Duty series has just seen its newest installment, Modern Warfare 3, appear yesterday and, judging by first e... |
9 November 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Video game developer Bungie, which has long been associated with the very successful Halo series, is now working with publisher Activision Blizzard on a new game world and, while not yet ready to reveal its new title, one leading developer is ready to talk about the challenges of its new project.Speaking to Gamasutra... |
8 November 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Rockstar Games, the developer of hit franchises like Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead Redemption, tries to avoid genres like first person shooters because it wants to deliver original things with all of its projects, and there are just too many companies that make such shooters without bringing anything new to the mix.Ro... |
31 October 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Planetside 2 does not yet have a release date but it has some impressive statistics when it comes to the ground it will cover, with one leading developers saying that the smallest continent will be eight by eight kilometers in area.Speaking to PC Gamer Matt Higby, who is the creative director working on Planetside 2,... |
27 October 2011
10:32 GMT |
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One of the big draws for the recently released Battlefield 3, the first person shooter from DICE and Electronic Arts, is the fact that it allows for 64 players to hunt each other on a map on foot, in vehicles or using jets and helicopters but players should not hold their breath about 128 player games in the next ins... |
27 October 2011
05:49 GMT |
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The biggest challenge for the developers of first person shooters is to create games that manage to be familiar to players while changing enough to make them feel like they are exploring new ground.Speaking to Gamasutra Patrick Bach, who is the executive producer working on Battlefield 3, stated, “Everyone want... |
25 October 2011
17:21 GMT |
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With both Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 launching during the next few weeks one leading developer in the first person shooter genre has said that the market can support more than one big franchise and that the market is seeing both of them more as services than simply as products.Speaking to Indust... |
19 October 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Analysts are yet unsure who will win the first person shooter crown this year but they believe that the fierce competition between Battlefield 3, from DICE and Electronic Arts, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, from Infinity Ward and Activision, is good for the health of the industry.John Taylor, who is an analyst ... |
18 October 2011
17:21 GMT |
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The first new intellectual property for id Software for quite some years, RAGE, has just been released and a number of gamers have suggested that the less than inspired welcome is down to expectations for the title being too high because of how long the game has been in development.Speaking to VG247 at the Eurogamer ... |
6 October 2011
04:44 GMT |
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RAGE will soon arrive on the consoles of gamers all over the world and the developers at id Software are trying to make sure that players approach the game right, talking about how choice is handled and why the game is not actually open world.Speaking to Gamasutra as part of a bigger interview Todd Hollenshead, who i... |
5 October 2011
03:27 GMT |
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DICE is well known for making competent, when not brilliant, first person shooters but it seems that some important members of the development team cannot look at them without seeing their flaws.Patrick Bach, who is an executive producer working at DICE, has stated, “We need to make sure people in this company ... |
3 October 2011
13:41 GMT |
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The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the most disputed in World War II and most people see it as the turning point on the Eastern Front, the moment when it became clear that the might of the Wehrmacht was shattered and that the Red Army was ready to take the initiative and drive towards Berlin.
The battle has been ... |
29 September 2011
07:52 GMT |
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Hard Reset came out of nowhere a few months ago, impressing lots of PC gamers with its lovely graphics and promising to deliver a high quality experience from a new studio, called Flying Wild Hog, composed of veterans from other Polish developers like People Can Fly, the makers of Painkiller or Bulletstorm, or CD Pro... |
15 September 2011
09:51 GMT |
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John Smedley, who is the president of Sony Online Entertainment, has announced that the upcoming PlanetSide 2 MMO will adopt the free-to-play business model, allowing interested gamers to experience most of the game universe and mechanics without paying a monthly subscription.The executive has used the PlanetSide Uni... |
13 September 2011
16:41 GMT |
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The developers at DICE working on Battlefield 3, the soon-to-be-released first-person shooter, have set out to create a game that can go head to head with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and that means offering a cooperative experience to rival the Spec Ops mode.
Tommy Rydling, who is a junior product manager worki... |
1 September 2011
05:48 GMT |
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The developers working on the upcoming first person shooter Battlefield 3 at DICE have announced that they will not be allowing players to take shots at civilians in the title, because it's impossible to punish them in game for doing so.Speaking to Rock, Paper, Shotgun at the DICE headquarters in Stock... |
1 September 2011
03:21 GMT |
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Since video game developer DICE announced that the framerate for their first person shooter Battlefield 3 will be locked at 30 FPS a lot of fans of the series have expressed their disapproval, pointing to rivals that are running at 60 FPS.But Karl Magnus Troedsson, who is the general manager of the Battlefield franch... |
30 August 2011
18:21 GMT |
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The developers working on the first-person shooter RAGE at id Software have announced that they are ready to begin working on downloadable content for the title, but that they are also busy putting the finishing touches on the experience.
The game will be launched on the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 on O... |
29 August 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Video game developer DICE has announced that it will include a number of weapon-based customization options for its upcoming first-person shooter Battlefield 3, allowing players to transform more than 50 weapons included in the game in significant ways.
The game creators are saying that each of the weapons a playe... |
29 August 2011
03:07 GMT |
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DICE has offered an explanation for its decision not to allow players to use home servers to host Battlefield 3 matches, with developer Mikael Kalms saying that the company needs to limit the need for support and work with a limited number of server providers.
The post on the official Electronic Arts forums says, ... |
25 August 2011
03:56 GMT |
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The Software Development Kit that developer Crytek has been offering on its official website has managed to get more than 100,000 downloads in the five days since it was uploaded, although it's not clear how many developers will actually use it to create actual video games.Crytek allows anyone interested to down... |
24 August 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Dishonored was one of the big video game announcements made between E3 2011 and the currently in-progress Gamescom trade events, with the developers promising a new sort of first person experience that blends exploration, choices and a universe that reacts to the player.Now the developers at Arkane Studios are saying... |
18 August 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Not too many people have heard of AssaultCube, and it is fair to say that it's not a popular game. AssaultCube is a multiplayer first person shooter with a couple of features that distinguish it from the rest of the pack.AssaultCube has a little bit of history behind it. It started in 2004 when a small grup of m... |
16 August 2011
08:30 GMT |
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The Chief Executive Officer of the Activision Publishing division has said that the Call of Duty series of first person shooters has more players who are ready to pay in order to play online multiplayer than all the games launched on the Facebook social network and that those players are also more engaged with the ga... |
10 August 2011
05:44 GMT |
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One of the executives working at developer DICE on the first-person shooter Battlefield 3 has confirmed that the game will use a solution similar to the Electronic Arts made Online Pass that will serve to limit access to the multiplayer modes for those players who pick the game up on the used market.
Patrick Bach,... |
2 August 2011
05:42 GMT |
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Gaming has been held up in the last few years, by a number of influential people from academics to politicians, as one of the main causes for a number of violent incidents, implicated in anything from the Columbine shootings to the recent assault in Norway.
But at least one leading video game developer believes th... |
1 August 2011
02:29 GMT |
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As the video game industry evolves, both fans and analysts have decried the lack of innovation coming from big developers and publishers
John Carmack, who is one of the founders of id Software and is now the lead engineer at the company, has told IndustryGamers that, “I am pretty down on people who take the... |
19 July 2011
17:01 GMT |
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2K Games has motivated the major genre change of its XCOM series to the dwindling popularity of strategy games, which just aren't "contemporary," as well as to the growing importance and popularity of first-person titles.
The XCOM franchise gained a large cult following back in the 1990s, when its turn-based ... |
15 July 2011
03:25 GMT |
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A brand new Polish game studio, Flying Wild Hog, has just announced its first game, called Hard Reset, which is set to appear in just two months, this September, exclusively for the PC.
These days games are usually announced years in advance, but a new Polish studio called Flying Wild Hog and formed by veterans fr... |
14 July 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Michael Pachter, who is the outspoken analyst who is watching the video games industry for research firm Wedbush Morgan, has announced that he believes the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard might reach the sales mark of 20 million copies when it launches later in the y... |
12 July 2011
05:50 GMT |
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id Software, the developer which is now part of the Bethesda Softworks family, is getting ready to launch its RAGE first-person shooter this fall, but it seems that the team working there was working on something else using their new id Tech 5 engine before getting the idea for their current project.
Matt Hoper, w... |
12 July 2011
04:59 GMT |
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The Wii U home console from Nintendo has been one of the big launches seen at this year's E3 and it seems that only now do video game publishers have the time needed to play around with prototypes of the platform and seen what kind of gaming experiences they can craft on it.
John Riccitiello, who is the chief... |
11 July 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Video game developer Bungie has posted an official announcement on their website in which they bid farewell to all the fans of the Halo franchise and express their hope that the franchise will prosper under the watchful eye of Microsoft and the development talent of 343 Industries.
The message has been offered jus... |
11 July 2011
09:41 GMT |
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The Sony Online Entertainment division of the video game publisher has announced that it is currently working on PlanetSide 2, a re-imagined version of its well-known mix between an MMO and a first-person shooter.
The game is set to deliver an experience that is close to the original, including massive battles, em... |
11 July 2011
04:21 GMT |
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How long can little girls with asymmetrical haircuts scare someone? Let's say they get a man for a few times when they first meet. Let's say that the scare attempts are well hidden behind mech action and some very solid shooting mechanics the second time around. Can the same horror clichés work a thi... |
6 July 2011
07:31 GMT |
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