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The final days of Bizarre Creations

Neil Long at 05:16pm November 13 2012

Bizarre Creations closed on February 18, 2011 after 17 years in the videogame business. Its last two releases, 007: Blood Stone and Blur, were deemed to have underperformed, and parent company Activision dropped the shutters on the Liverpool studio as a last resort. It had tried and failed to find a buyer for the studio behind Formula One, Metropolis Street Racer, Project Gotham Racing, Geometry Wars, The Club and more, leaving around 200 staff facing redundancy.

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Find game industry jobs working for DICE, Rovio or Team17

Ben Maxwell at 04:33pm November 13 2012

Our weekly game industry jobs round-up highlights some of the recently advertised positions from Edge Jobs.

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Sony details PlayStation Plus for Vita – Uncharted and Gravity Rush free at launch next week

Nathan Brown at 04:27pm November 13 2012

Announced in a press release, PS Plus for Vita kicks off on November 21 for European players and will come at no extra cost for existing members. Sony promises four Vita games will be made available for free each month, starting with Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Gravity Rush, Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack and Chronovolt.

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Incredipede review

Edge Staff at 11:18am November 13 2012

‘Trainee god’ is the position Incredipede initially seems to be offering, and comedy is definitely the wage it’s paying. Broad, slapstick comedy to be sure, but also awkward, horrific, gallows comedy, as the contorted freaks that spring from your mouse flop and twitch and spasm across the landscape.

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Ubisoft CEO not happy with Wii U price, wants even cheaper hardware

Ben Maxwell at 10:44am November 13 2012

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot believes that Nintendo’s Wii U console, launching next week in the US and November 30 in the UK, isn’t priced aggressively enough. In the UK, the console will cost around £249.99 for the white 8GB version, and £299.99 for the black 32GB console.

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Blackberry’s hard sell: Volker Hirsch on why a new operating system is winning over developers

Neil Long at 05:37pm November 12 2012

The “other fruit guys” kickstarted a mobile games revolution with iPhone, then with iPad. Now BlackBerry has set its sights on the mobile games space, looking to seduce studios worldwide with a new platform and developer-friendly approach. But is it too late?

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Still Playing: Yakuza Dead Souls

David Valjalo at 12:44pm November 12 2012

Sega might just be the most playful big publisher around. From Virtua Fighter Kids’ weirdly proportioned, funhouse mirror battlers and grapplers to Phantasy Star Online’s surprise seasonal themes; from Typing Of The Dead to the greatest freebie in videogame history, Christmas Nights Into Dreams, the company isn’t afraid to stretch and subvert its major properties for the sake of a few giggles. It’s also unafraid to let its developers take big names and transplant them into other genres. Remember Sonic The Fighters? Probably best not to, actually. Panzer Dragoon Saga? Now that’s more like it. Yakuza: Dead Souls follows this fine tradition, taking the cast of the Yakuza series and tossing them into one giant, out-of-continuity April Fool’s joke

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THQ defaulted on $50 million loan during last financial quarter

Ben Maxwell at 11:59am November 12 2012

Ailing publisher THQ defaulted on a $50 million loan from financial services company Wells Fargo during the last financial quarter, ended September 30. The default was revealed by recent SEC findings, and come after the publisher reported losses of $21 million and called in mergers and acquisitions consultant Centerview Partners to discuss other potential strategies to rescue the company.

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Halo 4 becomes UK number one, though can’t top Halo 3 or Reach’s debuts

Ben Maxwell at 11:17am November 12 2012

Halo 4 has, rather predictably, taken the top spot in this week’s UK all-formats chart, knocking last week’s best-selling game, Assassin’s Creed III, down to two. Despite its success, 343 Industries’ reboot didn’t exceed week-one sales of Halo 3 or Halo Reach (the 15th and 12th biggest-selling SKUs, respectively, with 4 becoming the 18th).

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Valve confirms new engine in the works, possibly Source 2

Ben Maxwell at 10:30am November 12 2012

Valve co-founder and president Gabe Newell has confirmed that the developer has a new engine in the works while speaking to a group of 4chan members who visited the Washington-based studio recently.

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