Lewis Packwood
Games Journalist at Freelance
Freelance video-game journalist with bylines in The Guardian, EDGE, Retro Gamer, etc. Author of Curious Video Game Machines.
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2 days ago |
gamesindustry.biz | Lewis Packwood
The Dutch consumer group Stichting Massaschade & Consument (Mass Damage & Consumer Foundation) has filed a collective lawsuit against Sony, claiming that the console manufacturer has been exploiting its dominant position in the market. The group maintains that at least 1.7 million PlayStation owners in the Netherlands are paying too much for digital games on Sony's console.
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3 days ago |
gamesindustry.biz | Lewis Packwood
"We're all pretty happy," beams Logie MacDonald, communications manager at UKIE. The trade association has welcomed with open arms the publication of the UK government's Creative Industries Sector Plan this week – a plan that MacDonald says satisfies many of UKIE's proposals. "We've never seen this level of support before," he says. "It's a really big moment."He thinks the plan indicates a change of tone from the UK government.
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4 days ago |
gamesindustry.biz | Lewis Packwood
If there's one lesson to be learned in the games industry, it's that past success is no guarantee of future success. It's something that Travis George has found out the hard way over the past few years. George began his career at Activision, but joined Riot Games as a game designer in 2008, just in time to ride the dragon that is League of Legends. "I was the team lead for all of League for several years," he says.
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1 week ago |
gamesindustry.biz | Lewis Packwood
"I would like Citizen Sleeper 2 to have been on Switch 2 at launch, but that wasn't possible," says Gareth Damian Martin. They're not the only indie developer that wasn't invited to the Switch 2 party. Looking at the current list of titles for Nintendo's latest console, there are very few games from indie devs. Deltarune and No Man's Sky are among the lucky ones that managed to get past the velvet rope.
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1 week ago |
gamesindustry.biz | Lewis Packwood
Digital Eclipse has gained a reputation throughout the industry for its lavish collections of retro games, featuring generous helpings of extra content that help to tell the story of the games' development. At Sony's State of Play presentation in June, the company revealed its latest project – Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection. "It's a long time coming," says Stephen Frost, head of production at Digital Eclipse.
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