Following rumors earlier today that the Canadian Too Human-developer Silicon Knight had laid off all but 25 staff members, 1Up reports that Silicon Knights CFO Mike Mays confirmed that around 45 employees have been lost their jobs at the studio. Contrary to earlier reports, Mays indicated that “just under 40” employees currently remain with the studio, […]
There’s no controversy in saying that the music-rhythm genre has more than stagnated in recent years, and Rock Band developer Harmonix is keenly aware of that fact. In an interview with Giant Bomb, studio head Alex Rigopulos and company detailed the future of the franchise, and how the company plans to keep it fresh in […]
As part of a Kirby’s Return to Dream Land panel discussion on Nintendo’s “Iwata Asks”, the team at HAL Laboratory went into detail for the first time on the 11-year gap between console Kirby game releases. During that time, three titles featuring the pink puffball began development but were eventually scrapped.
Fresh from a ground-up reboot, Blizzard DOTA is looking to be the centerpiece for a new Indie Marketplace-style distribution platform called “Blizzard Arcade”. Originally manifesting as the StarCraft 2 marketplace, a distribution model for user-created mods and maps, the current plan for Arcade is to expand the user creation marketplace to include all content made […]