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Originally Posted by wraggster

Former Capcom producer and Comcept CEO Keiji Inafune has revealed that he is working on a new zombie game titled Yaiba.
The designer announced the project via a press release which promises that it will contain not only the walking dead, but ninjas, robots and action - examples of which you can see in the teaser trailer below.

A year and a half has passed after becoming independent, and I have been fortunate enough to announce several projects along the way," Inafune writes.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Blacklist creative director Maxime Béland calls previous installation a stepping stone

Splinter Cell: Conviction became a rescue job after a trouble development, Blacklist's creative director Maxime Béland has claimed.
Conviction was an action-oriented reboot of the popular stealth series, but many fans were upset with some of the changes.

"I'm not going to go into the whole story," Béland told Joystiq.
"But Conviction was kind of a rescue job

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Free iOS version of hit football app downloaded more than one million times, 30x more than on Android

Not making New Star Soccer free-to-play on Android was a big mistake given its breakout success on iOS, developer Simon Read has told Develop.
Speaking in a newly published interview, Read revealed that the iOS version of NSS5 had been downloaded more than one million times, whilst the paid-for Android edition - which costs £1.99 - had been bought just 40,000 times.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

An Xbox 360 version of zombie survival hit DayZ is looking a certainty.
Developer Bohemia Interactive is overseeing the official development of a standalone version of DayZ, which started life as a fan-made mod for its war shooter Arma II.
But logic dictates, it admits, that it would be sound business sense to aim beyond simply PC alone.
"Obviously DayZ, you've seen the success of Minecraft on Xbox Live Arcade [4m sales] and we'd probably be stupid not to try to do something

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Wing Commander, Privateer and Freelancer creator Chris Roberts has announced a new game after nearly ten years away from the videogame industry.
Roberts' new game is currently called Cloud Imperium, and has been in development for just under a year and will be officially revealed on October 10 this year.
"I grew up making video games," Roberts writes on the new Roberts Space Industries website. "I sold my first game at the age of 13 and created Wing Commander when I was

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