Creative Assembly GM Tim Heaton ran Relic following SEGA takeover
When THQ went bankrupt and sold Relic to SEGA it was in a state of turmoil. The developer was deep into making Company of Heroes 2 and they had to ship this game in a matter of months. They were lacking a general manager to oversee the studio and this was causing problems across the studio.
SEGA asked one of their other studios, Creative Assembly, to help. Tim Heaton stepped up and began running both Creative Assembly in the UK and Relic over in Canada.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive community map packs “having a real impact on our lives,” says designer
Since Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s launch Valve have been pushing out community map packs. The first of these, Operation: Payback, raised more than $180,000 for the amateur designers involved. One of these mappers, Shawn 'FMPONE' Snelling, has said how these efforts by Valve are “having a real impact on our lives.”
Planetside 2 optimisations bring up to “30% increase in framerate.” Aiming for 23 October release
“Overall we're running faster across all our hardware test cases, in some cases with up to a 30% increase in framerate, and we're not even done yet,” said creative director Matt Higby. “We know everyone here is anxious for news so we wanted to share some tentative dates of when we expect to have some of these efforts released to you guys.”
That first major patch should be released on 23 October, “assuming that our testing goes well.”
Homefront 2: first work-in-progress images appear in promotional handout
The first images of Homefront 2 from developer Crytek have appeared via a promotional handout, and we’ve got off-screen images of the title for you below.
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