News: Fez programmer Renaud Bedard has said that the team is working with Microsoft to fix the worst issues. Programmer Renaud Bedard has been fielding bug complaints since Fez’s release on Friday . He has confirmed that the developer is working with Microsoft on fixing major bugs, but admits the team don’t yet have a release date for a patch. [...]

News: Minecraft creator Notch believes that game developers are wrong to pursue the strengths of other media. Mojang head Marcus ‘Notch’ Persson has dismissed game designers who limit interactivity by pursuing linear storytelling. “People who want games to emulate other art forms are missing the point so bad I just want to smack them across the face with a shovel,” said [...]

Video: Crytek have released an update for the CryEngine SDK, accompanied by a new promotional video. Why is it that the environments of engine tech demos are always far more intriguing than the worlds of the commercially-released games of the developers who produce them? So it was with the haunting Epic Citadel from Gears of War types Epic Games ; so [...]

News: Space Quest creators Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy are working on a new “Spaceventure” in the mould of their beloved series. Two Guys from Andromeda – known to their families as Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy - have reunited to work on an adventure game successor to the Sierra Space Quest series. “We’re very excited to announce that we’re back working together again, and [...]

News: An early ‘vision statement’ doc for what would become Planescape Torment has been unearthed by Wasteland 2 lead and former Interplay head Brian Fargo. It must often be the case that designers and writers look back at early design docs and sigh the weary requiem of wasted potential and overambition. But Black Isle ‘s postmodern RPG, Planescape Torment , still [...]

News: Sega’s third-person shooter and conversationalist disappointed at US retail in March, NPD figures have revealed. Figures from market research group NPD have revealed that Binary Domain , the third-person shooter from Yakuza Team , sold only 20,000 copies at US retail last month. By way of cruel comparison, let’s compare that figure with its great talk ‘n’ shoot competitor, Mass Effect 3 , [...]

News: EA titles are expected to return to GAME stores next week after the Group’s OpCapita takeover. EA has agreed a deal with GAME to begin stocking the publisher’s titles again, MCV reports. New EA titles have appeared on the retailer’s website , and are expected to arrive in stores next week. EA pulled stock from GAME shortly before the Group [...]

News: Kickstarter and PayPal fan donations now total over $2.5 million, says InXile head and Wasteland creator Brian Fargo. Wasteland 2 now has a fund of more than $2.5 million thanks to fan donations, says InXile‘s Brian Fargo. “We just crept over $2.5 million in fan funds!!!!,” said Fargo via Twitter. “I’m still amazed! Only thing more exciting will be [...]

News: Apple CEO Tim Cook visited Valve’s Bellevue headquarters yesterday, Apple Insider reports. Tim Cook , CEO of reluctant games industry gamechangers Apple, was spotted yesterday visiting Valve at their headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, says the Apple Insider . Both companies occupy similar spaces on different platforms, and Steam has been expanding its Mac catalogue in recent months – is a move to [...]

News: The multiplayer component of the upcoming Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will “drive players to play like a squad”, say Ubisoft. So says Ghost Recon: Future Soldier creative director Tommy Jacob , who says that the game’s multiplayer is built around three pillars - ”combat, the Intel Loop and teamwork”. “It’s a Ghost Recon game, so combat had to work in [...]

News: Epic Mickey: The Power of Two, the cross-platform sequel to the Wii-exclusive Epic Mickey, will take advantage of the higher-powered consoles, says Warren Spector. Epic Mickey: The Power of Two is working hard to make up for the Wii exclusivity of its predecessor. The sequel is currently set for release on Wii, Xbox 360 , PC, Mac and PlayStation 3 - and [...]

News: Following a hardware development job listing yesterday, a Valve employee blog post reveals that the company is in the early stages of developing “wearable computing”. Yesterday, we all engaged in group knicker-twisting over a Valve job listing concerning “platform hardware” , which appeared to lend more credence to rumours of a ‘ Steam Box ‘ home console. Today, however, Valve have [...]

News: Gears of War and one-time Unreal studio Epic Games is currently developing a PC-exclusive title, the developer has revealed. After the best part of a decade spent with one of Microsoft‘s flagship Xbox series, Gears of War , Epic Games is finally set to return to its roots, at least in one sense: the studio is developing a PC-exclusive title. Studio [...]

News: Runic Games CEO Max Schaefer says that Torchlight II will “ideally” launch a month after Diablo III, but the developer won’t rush to beat its competition. Although Torchlight II was originally scheduled to land before its rather highly-anticipated genre mate, Diablo III , the game was delayed to this year and will now “ideally” launch a month after its competition, [...]

News: Obsidian’s Chris Avellone has said that there are ”a lot of gameplay elements that can be learned from working on ‘old school’ titles that are just as applicable in current titles”. This week, Wasteland 2 ‘s Kickstarter campaign passed its new $2.1m goal and Interplay‘s finest were reunited on the project. Obsidian‘s Chris Avellone is set to contribute to area and narrative design [...]

News: 343 Industries’ Josh Holmes says that Halo 4 will take a “darker, more sophisticated tone” and be “more cinematic” than the series has been. 343 Industries have spent the last year placating fans terrified to see Halo 4 in hands not belonging to Bungie, but are gingerly starting to talk change. Creative director Josh Holmes has said that the game [...]

News: Sierra veteran and Leisure Suit Larry creator Al Lowe has said that the original’s Kickstarter remake needs to sell enough copies to convince Codemasters to license a new sequel. Although Al Lowe ‘s Replay Games bought the Leisure Suit Larry license last year, the developer was forced to turn to Kickstarter to get their remake of the 1987 adventure game off the [...]

Video: PS3 MMO shooter Defiance, from Rift developer Trion Worlds, will bring post-apocalyptic bug-hunting to the PS3, as evidenced by a new gameplay trailer. Defiance has so far been a tricky prospect to fathom, announced as it was alongside a Syfy TV series of the same name. It’s an MMO shooter – third-person, looks like – from Rift veterans Trion Worlds , [...]