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Contrast casts shadows on vaudevillian Paris
by Alice O'Connor, shacknews.com, May 24, 2013 1:15PM PDT
It was a murky world, the Parisian nightlife of the 1920s, but sometimes a little shadow can be useful when you're an 8-year-old girl's glamorous imaginary friend. Publisher Focus Home Interactive today announced it's picked up Contrast, a puzzle-platformer where you can shift into shadow to pass obstacles in the unreal world. Read more
EA puts Fight Night on hold in favor of UFC
by Steve Watts, shacknews.com, May 24, 2013 12:30PM PDT
EA Sports head Andrew Wilson says the Fight Night team has been almost entirely redirected to work on UFC, after the company grabbed the rights from THQ in June of last year. Read more
Grid 2 sets world record for most expensive Special Edition
by Steve Watts, shacknews.com, May 24, 2013 11:30AM PDT
Grid 2 has set the Guinness World Record for the most expensive special edition of a video game, with a $190,000 version that includes an actual race car. Read more
ITC rules Xbox did not infringe on Motorola patent
by Steve Watts, shacknews.com, May 24, 2013 10:30AM PDT
The ITC has ruled that Microsoft did not violate Motorola's wireless communications patent with the Xbox, defeating the last remaining of Motorola's five patent complaints against the company. Read more
How an 'immature smartass' helps Shadow Warrior reboot
by Ozzie Mejia, shacknews.com, May 24, 2013 10:00AM PDT
Devolver Digital's Nigel Lowrie and Flying Wild Hog's Jan Bartkowicz talk about their plans to update Shadow Warrior and frontman Lo Wang for a 2013 audience. Read more
Call of Duty: Ghosts using voice commands for Xbox One Kinect
by Steve Watts, shacknews.com, May 24, 2013 9:30AM PDT
Activision Publishing head Eric Hirshberg talks about how the Kinect integration and improved visuals of the Xbox One are influencing hte direction for Call of Duty: Ghosts. Read more
Star Wars Battlefront opportunity 'very exciting,' says EA
by Steve Watts, shacknews.com, May 24, 2013 9:00AM PDT
EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said at a recent conference that the opportunity to make a new Battlefront game, for example, is "very exciting." Read more
Ninja Theory announces mobile game Fightback
by Steve Watts, shacknews.com, May 24, 2013 8:15AM PDT
Ninja Theory has announced its first mobile game, a free-to-play action title called Fightback. It is being published by EA subsidiary Chillingo and will appear on iOS and Android devices this summer. Read more
Sony explains why Gran Turismo 6 is not coming to PlayStation 4 (for now)
by Steve Watts, shacknews.com, May 24, 2013 7:30AM PDT
Sony has remarked on why Gran Turismo 6 is heading to PlayStation 3 instead of PS4, saying that the PS3's install base of 70 million units is much more appealing than starting from scratch on PS4. Read more
Valve forms Overwatch for CS:GO community to police itself
by Alice O'Connor, shacknews.com, May 24, 2013 6:45AM PDT
As someone reading this on the Internet, you know that people on the Internet are often awful. Doubly so if they're playing a video game. To help weed out horrors, Valve is playing with a community self-policing scheme for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. It sounds similar to the Tribunal in Riot's League of Legends, presenting players with "cases" of others who've been reported and asking them to make judgements. Read more
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