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Death Stranding Enters "Critical Development Phase"
Hideo Kojima has informed that his upcoming action adventure game Death Stranding is entering a critical development stage. The creator is spending days playing his work on its target platform - the PlayStation 4 console.
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Bart Swiatek
March 25, 2019
Epic Games Reveals Digital Distribution Costs
Epic Games studio CEO revealed the costs of digital distribution. His calculations show that a 12% margin is enough to make big money, and the industry standard 30% is exaggerated.
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Adrian Werner
March 22, 2019
"We Thought The Witcher 3 Will be a Disaster," Says Dev
Miles Tost – a level designer working on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – has recently admitted during a podcast that there was a moment when the developers thought that their game will be a total flop.
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Bart Swiatek
March 21, 2019
Behind the Scenes of Cyberpunk 2077
After a series of videos dedicated to the beginnings of CD Projekt RED, PlayStation's YouTube channel has published a video that provides the gamers with a look behind the scenes of Cyberpunk 2077's development.
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Christian Pieniazek
March 8, 2019
Mortal Kombat 11 Retains Unreal Engine 3
NetherRealm Studios has released a fresh trailer for Mortal Kombat 11, this time focusing on the game's plot. We've also learned that the game will run on Unreal Engine 3, and not its newer, fourth generation.
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Adrian Werner
March 7, 2019
Horizon Zero Dawn Sold 10 mln Copies and Other Fun Facts
Horizon Zero Dawn is two years old today. On the occasion of the anniversary, the developers have boasted that the game sold 10 mln copies. They also shared a number of interesting facts about the game's development.
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Konrad Serafinski
March 1, 2019
Apex Legends Boasts Over 1 Million Players
Apex Legends marks a successful launch – the game can boast more than 1 million unique players in less than 8 hours after the official release.
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Agnes Adamus
February 5, 2019
Atomic Heart in development hell, insider source claims
Atomic Heart is going through hell, according to an anonymous inside source, with layoffs and lack of coherent vision becoming major problems.
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Christian Pieniazek
January 29, 2019
CD Projekt RED: more than 400 people are working on Cyberpunk 2077
If you were worried about Cyberpunk 2077 after having heard that CD Projekt RED’s story designer has left the team, rest assured - everything is fine.
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Konrad Serafinski
January 28, 2019
Metroid Prime 4 is being created and supervised by original developers
Nintendo company informed about production restart of Metroid Prime 4. The current version of the project was put erased as it did not meet the standards of the Japanese company.
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Jacob Blazewicz
January 26, 2019
Assassin's Creed Odyssey could have been a spin-off
Graphics provided by the artistic director of the latest part of Assassin's Creed suggest that Ubisoft for some time was considering making Odyssey as an independent title, unrelated to the main series.
video games
January 21, 2019
Star Citizen - in 2017 production costed $4 million per month
It seems that money and Star Citizen are two inseparable topics. Studio Cloud Imperium Games, responsible for production, has published a document in which it reveals some data on financial management.
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Konrad Serafinski
January 21, 2019
BioWare has tried to work on KOTOR 3 several times
According to Jason Schreier from Kotaku, BioWare has tried many times to start working on the third part of the Star Wars series: Knights of the Old Republic. However, the studio was not lucky, because the project was rejected by the publisher many times.
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Michael Kulakowski
January 20, 2019
Steam Spy creator explains how the Epic Games Store gets influencers
Sergey Galyonkin, the director responsible for preparing the Epic Games Store's publishing strategy, presented a lot of information about the backstage of the platform.
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Bart Swiatek
January 16, 2019
Adrian Chmielarz: Witchfire used to be a survival game
Adrian Chmielarz, the CEO of the Astronauts, posted some interesting facts about the development of Witchfire.
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Konrad Serafinski
January 10, 2019
Diablo 4 may be returning to Diablo 2’s dark atmosphere
We’ve got some interesting reports about the future of the Diablo franchise. Apparently, Blizzard is currently working on a full-fledged Diablo 4 and the game resembles the second installment.
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Adrian Werner
November 22, 2018
EA isn't taking BioWare over and won't shut the studio down no matter what
Anthem's failure, if it happens, won't be the end of BioWare – studio's former game designer believes. That's because EA considers BioWare an important, long-term investment.
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Mathias Zulpo
July 25, 2018
$9,400 – that's what CD Projekt RED paid for the Witcher license
It is clear now why Andrzej Sapkowski, the author of The Witcher books, kicks himself for refusing a percentage of The Witcher games sales. He licensed the brand to CD Projekt RED for just about $9,400 back in early 2000s.
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May 31, 2017
$4,000 is all it took to acquire rights to make a Witcher game in the '90s
Before CD Projekt Red decided to make their own Witcher game, Metropolis Software gave it a shot on their own. Now we know how much the studio had to pay Andrzej Sapkowski to be able to do that.
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Mike Manka
May 26, 2017
Andrzej Sapkowski, the creator of The Witcher universe, didn't believe in success of the games
In a recent interview for Eurogamer, Andrzej Sapkowski, the author of the Witcher universe, called himself stupid over not accepting a percentage of the games' profit. That's because he didn't believe the games would achieve any success.
video games
March 24, 2017