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Indie hit ‘Stardew Valley’ has sold over 1 million copies
Since launching at the end of February, role-playing game and farming sim Stardew Valley quickly became one of the first indie hits of the year, and now publisher Chucklefish Games has confirmed that the game has now sold over 1 million copies. “It’s actually at 1,007,000 as of now,” a Chucklefish spokesperson told Polygon. “It’s been really ...
“Brutally hard” Dark Souls board game coming to Kickstarter
Tabletop game company Steamforged Games Ltd recently announced that it will be launching a Kickstarter campaign for a board game adaptation of Dark Souls, the notoriously difficult video game series developer by Japanese game studio From Software, and now Steamforged has revealed more details about the game, including when the crowdfunding campaign will go live. “Designed from the ...
Facebook unveils open-source 360-degree camera for VR video | #F82016
At this week’s F8 conference, social media giant Facebook introduced an open-source video camera called Facebook Surround 360, which is aimed at capturing footage in 360 degrees for use in virtual reality content creation. “When we started this project, all the existing 3D-360 video cameras we saw were either proprietary (so the community could not access ...
Delivery of some Oculus Rift pre-orders delayed by months
Oculus Rift officially launched more than two weeks ago, but it looks like some fans who pre-ordered the high end virtual reality headset will have to wait a bit longer for their device. Oculus VR LLC already admitted earlier this month that there would be delays for some pre-orders. “We’ve been working through an unexpected ...
John Carmack: Today’s opportunities for game devs more exciting “than anything that’s come before”
This week, legendary game maker John Carmack accepted a fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) for his pioneering work in game development since the early 1990s. Through his work on Wolfenstein 3d and Doom, Carmack helped create the first-person shooter genre, and today he has continued pushing the boundaries of game development through ...
Rust now arbitrarily picks your character’s gender, just like real life but with more murder
Indie developer Facepunch Studios Ltd had already angered some players in its survival game Rust when it decided to randomly assign race for every character, and now those same developers have made another controversial decision by randomly assigning gender as well. “We understand this is a sore subject for a lot of people,” the developers wrote in ...
Team behind old school World of Warcraft server begs Blizzard to reconsider shutdown
This week, the team behind Nostalrius, one of the most popular private World of Warcraft servers, was forced to shut it down after Blizzard Entertainment’s lawyers sent a letter threatening legal action. Now, the Nostralius team has written an open letter addressed to Blizzard founder and CEO Mike Morhaime, arguing that private servers are important for ...
Overwatch’s new Competitive Play makes you hate your team even more
This week, Blizzard Entertainment introduced a new Competitive Play mode to the closed beta of its upcoming team shooter, Overwatch, finally allowing the game to enjoy some of the same player toxicity as games like League of Legends and Dota 2. Competitive Play takes place on the same maps as the standard Quick Play, but there are a ...
BMW turns to HTC Vive and Unreal Engine to design cars in VR
It seems obvious that virtual reality would have plenty of applications outside of gaming, but now that seems to apply to game engines as well, as German automobile manufacturer BMW AG has started designing cars using Unreal Engine 4 and the HTC Vive VR headset. “BMW has become the first car manufacturer to introduce a ...
Rock Band 4 for PC crowdfunding campaign fails miserably
It seems that Harmonix Music Systems Inc set the bar a bit too high when it asked for $1.5 million in crowdfunding to produce a PC version of Rock Band 4, as the game’s Fig campaign has ended after only managing to reach roughly half of its goal. “How do we feel about the end of the campaign? Disappointed, ...
