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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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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Import only? Everything’s better in Japan. Food, toilets, and vending machines are all superior; littering, pollution, and crime rates are all down. Even the dirt, it’s clean. And, depending on who you ask, Japan gets all the best video games. From platformers to shmups, fighting games to rhythm games, it …
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Truth be told, we’re not sure how it took us this long to dive into Majyuuou. This Japanese Super Famicom game is something of a cult classic, with imaginative enemies and a grueling difficulty that echoes Super Castlevania IV and Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts. On this episode of RadarPlays Freaky, …
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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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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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The composers behind some of this generation’s biggest games will gather on Sept. 9 in London. Us unrepentant soundtrack fiends at GamesRadar are partnering with Game Art Connect for Game Music Connect, a one-day conference of panels, roundtables, and rubbing elbows with the minds behind the music of Assassin’s Creed, …
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Electronic Arts has shuttered the studio behind the SpellForce series and the browser-based Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances, according to GamesIndustry International sources. The publisher didn’t comment on the fate of EA Phenomic specifically, but did acknowledge some layoffs in a statement. “As part of EA’s realignment in recent weeks, …
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The Electronic Entertainment Expo is the most important week of the year for gaming news, and 2013’s convention has the potential to be the biggest in a decade. Gaming’s in a weird spot right now, and the future of the industry is anything but certain–Nintendo’s Wii U is stumbling, the …
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Ubisoft’s E3 2013 Lineup will include Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Watch Dogs, Rayman Legends, Splinter Cell Blacklist, South Park: The Stick of Truth, and more. The publisher will show off its upcoming lineup on stage at 3 p.m. PDT on June 10 and on the show floor throughout the …
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