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PS4 Livestream happening RIGHT NOW!

The embargo has lifted, the PS4 review is live, and we can finally give you a peek behind the curtain the beginning of a new generation. We’ve got a PS4 in-hand, and some amazing games to boot, and we want to spend half the day showing them to you. Tune …

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People Can Fly working on Fortnite, renamed Epic Games Poland

Gears of War: Judgment (opens in new tab) and Bulletstorm (opens in new tab) developer People Can Fly has been renamed Epic Games Poland and put to work on next-gen build-and-battle survival game Fortnite (opens in new tab). Epic Games confirmed the switch-up in a statement to Pixel Enemy (opens …

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AAA devs get back to making games, not products

“It was not the way I envisioned creating video games,” says Simon Darveau. He’d been with Ubisoft for half a decade, where he worked as a game designer on the Assassin’s Creed series. Being a AAA developer on an established franchise certainly had its perks–a decent salary, a secure job. …

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World 1-2, the ultimate video game music collaboration

Mega Man composer Manami Matsumae, along with Keiji Yamagishi of Ninja Gaiden, Austin Wintory of Journey, and other video game composers have announced today the release of their mega collaboration: World 1-2: The Complete Collection. Available now, this collection features both the original collaboration, World 1-2, and the follow up, …

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Ubisoft adding 500 positions to Quebec studios through 2020

Ubisoft is adding more than 500 jobs to its Quebec studios over the next seven years. Usually the numbers are going in the opposite direction in stories like these, but Ubisoft said the need to strengthen its online gaming headquarters and company-wide infrastructure justified the $373 million investment. Its Quebec …

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BioShock Infinite sells more than 4 million since March

Four million isn’t Call of Duty numbers, but it’s not half bad for a semi-political, semi-historical shooter: Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick shed some insight on BioShock Infinite‘s sales since March in a conference call with investors today (via Joystiq). “BioShock Infinite is North America’s best-selling multiplatform release so far …

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Ubisoft sees an open-world, seamless multiplayer future

You may have noticed a common theme across Ubisoft’s upcoming games: Watch Dogs, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, The Division, and The Crew are all open world games with varying degrees of seamless multiplayer built in. That’s not for lack of ideas, The Crew creative director Julian Gerighty told Polygon. …

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