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Minecraft is getting a combat revamp on PC, Xbox One, and more
The popular Minecraft video game will be getting a significant revamp to its combat mechanics according to a Reddit post (via WC) made today on Reddit by the game’s chief creative officer, Jens Bergensten. In the post, Bergensten explains that they’ve been wanting to improve upon the combat system for a while now and that they’ll first begin testing it in the Java version of Minecraft ...read more
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Modern Warfare’s Game Engine Took More Than 5 Years to Develop
The next installment in the long running shooter series, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, is looking to do some different things with the series. One thing that’s also different is a new game engine that really catches the eyes. It looks pretty amazing. It also took a very long time to develop. We often think and talk about game development in the scope of individual games, usually taking three ...read more
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Infinity Ward slam speculation about censoring Modern Warfare
"To be very clear, we’re making the exact game we want to make." Earlier this week, a new interview with former Sledgehammer Games co-founder Michael Condrey was released in which the developer talked about how Activision had supposedly pushed Infinity Ward to make Call of Duty: Modern Warfare darker than past games. “That said, MW seems like a tough challenge for any studio, especially if ...read more
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Phil Spencer Talks About Giving First-Party Teams Extra Time
Xbox Head Phil Spencer speaks on the future of first-party Xbox and how the studios are benefiting from each other. For the entirety of the Xbox One’s life cycle, one of the most common criticisms of Microsoft has been the lack of first-party games. Even for the ones that did exist were seen as underwhelming. In a new interview with Kotaku, Phil Spencer talks about the direction he and the ...read more
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Fallout 76 Would Have Never Been Abandoned, Says Pete Hines
The last year has not been too kind to big GaaS (Games as a Service) releases. In fact, in a relatively short time period we saw two launches that were, frankly, rather disastrous. One being EA and BioWare’s Anthem, which both parties are hoping to turn around soon, with the other being Fallout 76. While on paper the latter seemed like an easy slam dunk, the launch was marred with what seemed ...read more
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New Toy Story Mash-Up pack is now available for Minecraft
In collaboration with some pretty famous franchises, Mojang has released several mash-up packs for Minecraft in the past. Fans of the game have been treated to mash-ups for Adventure Time, Fallout 4, and more. Today, a new such pack has been announced by the company, dubbed the Toy Story Mash-Up. Arriving mere days after the release of the franchise's latest movie, Toy Story 4, the pack will ...read more
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Cyberpunk 2077 will probably have a New Game Plus mode
If a Reddit post is to be believed, it’s likely that Cyberpunk 2077 will feature a New Game+ mode. A Reddit user named CaptainGJB shared a screenshot on Reddit of a conversation they had with Lead Quest Designer Paweł Sasko via Twitter direct message. CaptainGJB asked Sasko if it will be possible to max out every stat and obtain every ability in one Cyberpunk 2077 playthrough, to which ...read more
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Treyarch testers describe sweatshop conditions working on Black Ops 4
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 had a difficult development period, one that ended up discarding an experimental campaign mode, and then adding in its Blackout battle royale mode less than a year prior to release. And according to a new report by Kotaku, that led to about a year's worth of crunch, with QA contractors working long hours for low wages. Kotaku interviewed 11 current and former Treyarch ...read more
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Treyarch Heads Respond to Report of Crunch & Poor Working Conditions
In an internal email obtained by Kotaku, Treyarch has responded to the claims of intense crunch and other poor working conditions. Earlier this morning, Kotaku released an extensive report about a number of different working conditions at Treyarch, the studio behind the Call of Duty: Black Ops series. The report goes into great detail about what has transpired at the studio over the past few ...read more
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Ubisoft Confident Watch Dogs: Legion Is Something Special
Watch Dogs: Legions was one of the standout games at E3 this year, mostly thanks to its ambitious promise of allowing players to play as any NPC in the world. That said, it seems Ubisoft is well aware of the game's quality. Speaking to Telegraph, Ubisoft's Alain Corre more or less confirmed that Ubi knew going into the game's reveal that it had something "very, very good" on its hands.
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