Premier League clubs now using Football Manager database to determine new signings
It’s finally started: life is mimicking games. Sports Interactive have become so good at simulating the player-buying behaviour of UK football clubs that those same clubs have begun looking to them for help finding new signings.
Premier League teams will now incorporate Football Manager’s biographical, contractual and positional player database into their recruitment process.
Mastertronic will live on: UK publisher wins backing for all-digital future
In a time before Steam, Mastertronic were the kings of the budget boxed PC game - but eventually, that dependency on retail threatened to yank them backwards over a cliff. The UK publisher had to lay off staff, and only today has learned its fate: creditors have unanimously voted to let Mastertronic attempt to rock the coach forwards into a better future.
Enemy Unforgiven: Hard West is XCOM as a Western
A group of Call of Juarez veterans have realised they’ve been approaching cowboys from completely the wrong perspective. They’ve been looking through the practiced squint of John Wayne in first-person, when they should’ve been watching ol’ wide-shoulders from above: commanding him to flip tables and expend all his action points opening saloon doors far too vigorously.
That’s Hard West: a sun-baked meeting of XCOM and Heroes of Might and Magic, inspired by Stephen King and David Lynch.
Dead Island 2 – First Gameplay “Sunshine & Slaughter” Trailer + First Screenshots
Deep Silver revealed today the first gameplay trailer for Dead Island 2, the next installment in the multi-million-selling Dead Island franchise. Furthermore, the publisher has released the first in-game screenshots from it. The video shows Pre-Alpha in-game footage and gives a first impression on how the game looks like. Dead Island 2 is coming Spring 2015 from development studio YAGER for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Enjoy! Continue reading
World of Speed – Gamescom 2014 Team Racing Trailer
My.com and Slightly Mad Studios have released a Gamescom 2014 trailer for their upcoming free racer, World of Speed. In this trailer you’ll see that teammates and friends will need to cooperate to complete in-race objectives that will determine the winning team in the race. Enjoy! Continue reading
Square Enix Announces “Life is Strange” – New Episodic Adventure From The Creators Of “Remember Me”
Square Enix today announced that the brand new, episodic, digitally delivered, narrative driven adventure game entitled Life is Strange is coming to PC, PS4, Xbox One, PS3 and X360. Continue reading
OpenGL 4.5 Specifications Released, Next Generation OpenGL Plans Announced
Khronos, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies, publicly released the OpenGL 4.5 specification today, bringing the very latest functionality to the industry’s most advanced 3D graphics API while maintaining full backwards compatibility, enabling applications to incrementally use new features. The full specification and reference materials are available for immediate download from the OpenGL Registry. Continue reading
Grand Ages: Medieval Announced – New RTS – Debut Trailer
Kalypso Media announced that Grand Ages: Medieval is currently in development by Gaming Mind Studios and will be released in 2015 for PC. Being shown behind closed doors at gamescom 2014, Grand Ages: Medieval takes place in the High Middle Ages while Europe is in a period of huge change and rapid population growth. Continue reading
Project CARS – Limited Edition Announced
Namco Bandai has just unveiled the Limited Edition for its upcoming racer, Project CARS. This Limited Edition will offer players a special steel case featuring an exclusive visual, a behind-the-scenes book “Project CARS: By Racers 4 Racers”, as well as 5 legendary cars drivable in any game mode and with special one-make series career invitations to showcase them in. Continue reading
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