In an interview with Edge Online, Tim Sweeney the founder of Epic Games and creator of the Unreal engine, commented on the future of gaming graphics and business. He expressed enthusiasm regarding future console graphics and also predicted the fall of retail game sales followed by the dominant rise of online game sales. Tim Sweeney continued expressing that game development budgets should focus far less on marketing and more … [ Read More... ]
According to employee tweets and other reports, Valve has fired a whole bunch of people at the company. These are some pretty big changes too. Valve, the company behind Half Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Steam and more, has supposedly let go of about 25 people, although this number is not confirmed. Furthermore, Jason Holtman, Director of Business at Valve, has reportedly resigned from the company. … [ Read More... ]
Suda51, creator of games including, Lollipop Chainsaw, Killer7, No More Heroes, and Shadows of the Damned, has sold his company Grasshopper Manufacture to GungHo Online Entertainment. However Suda51 and president of GunHo Kazuki Morishita spoke to 4Gamer to help fans understand that Grasshopper Manufacture didn’t sellout.
Morishita began the interview with 4Gamer by killing the fears fans had… “I’d like Suda-san to remain focussed … [ Read More... ]
Prolific FPS game studio Id Software has finally released the mod tools for 2011’s RAGE. While it was quite a long wait, it looks like it will prove to be worth it. The RAGE Mod Tools are basically the same tools (id Studio) that id Software used to make RAGE and presumably what they’re using to make Doom 4. With these tools you can modify the RAGE game … [ Read More... ]