Digital Bros has rebranded its Hook Indie Publishing label as 505 Pulse. Digital Bros said the rebrand “reinforce[s] the indie division’s synergy with its larger publishing arm, 505 Games, enabling closer collaboration while maintaining its core mission.” Milan-based 505 Pulse said this will “empower indie developers and help bring their creative visions to life, from … Read more
Image: @RetroGameTech Convergence in consumer technology isn’t a new thing – just look at how the humble mobile phone has made digital cameras, MP3 players and even desktop computers obsolete for some people. However, when AtGames decided it was a good idea to combine a Sega Genesis / Mega Drive with a crappy digital camera, … Read more
Sonic X Shadow Generations launched towards the end of last month, and here at Pure Xbox we were rather happy with the Blue Blur’s latest outing. Having said that, with this game containing a bunch of remastered content, it’s always worth checking in with the tech experts at Digital Foundry on something like this – … Read more
Subscribe to Pure Xbox on YouTube27k Dragon Age: The Veilguard launches for Xbox Series X|S tomorrow, and ahead of BioWare’s new release landing, the folks over at Digital Foundry have taken a look at all the console versions of the game. There’s some analysis on both Xbox versions in here – and the good news … Read more
In December 2023, indie publisher Versus Evil was shut down – ten years after it first opened its doors, and two years after it was acquired by TinyBuild in a $31.3 million deal. The news came just a couple of weeks after founder and general manager Steve Escalante announced he was leaving the company. It … Read more
Digital Vortex Entertainment is a new publishing team focused on “elevating indie developers.” Established by the former chief publishing officer of My.Games and the business development director of Wargaming, Digital Vortex says its team will “leverage their industry insight encompassing AAA blockbusters, single-developer projects, and everything in between.” “Thanks to a collaborative open discussion policy, … Read more
The vast majority of the games industry is digital. This has been the case for quite some time. Overall, when we factor in downloads, microtransactions, DLC, subscription, PC, mobile, and so on, the physical games market represents a very small share of the video games business. However, when we are talking about the sale of … Read more
Earlier this year, the CEO of Hasbro said the firm was “going all in on digital play.” When we catch up Hasbro’s senior vice president of digital licensing Eugene Evans, we asked him for a little more insight as to what this actually means and he told us that, while it inevitably brings video games … Read more
