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Games industry veteran Fergus McGovern has passed away

Popular toys and video game entrepreneur Fergus McGovern passed away at the weekend.

He was just 50.

McGovern is best known for co-founding Probe, a games developer that had worked on a number of major video game franchises including FIFA, Alien, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mortal Kombat.

He sold the business to Acclaim in 1995, before re-launching it in 2010.

Hoffmann3350d ago

Probe was awesome during their time.

R.I.P

SniperControl3350d ago

Yep, have fond memories of Probe games back in the day.

R.I.P Mr McGovern.

Kyosuke_Sanada3350d ago

Totally agree, their character models and animation for games like Aliens 3 (SNES version) and Mortal Kombat were highly impressive.

Hoffmann3350d ago

They also made Die Hard Trilogy, one of the best movie based video games ever, at least during the 32bit era

Perjoss3350d ago

Alien 3 on the snes was a fantastic game!

yewles13350d ago

Tragic, I remember Probe...

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TELUS Launches GameRx, a Wellness Gaming Platform Backed by Science

TELUS launches the GameRx wellness gaming platform, offering science-backed game recommendations for mental and physical health.

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Ex-CoD producer tells devs to “be more like Larian, less like Activision”

Rubin: "Thank you! A lot of games, Call of Duty included just focus on how to make the most money possible out of the player base. They rely heavily on FOMO marketing and EOMM matches. But I feel like it used to be just more about the quality of the game which would drive players to play. And that means making the game more player centric. i.e. less engagement based tactics and higher quality experiences for the players. Better maps, modes etc. In other words your game should have a high player count because it's good and people want to play it rather than people playing it because the game has a $250M marketing budget. Everything is just said is very simplified as it would take too long to really go into it. One last simple analogy. Be more like Larian, less like Activision."

Sonyslave31d 2h ago

Lol the producer of xdviant a cod clone in every shape and way, including the micro & fomo is piss off his game getting shut down.

Sonyslave31d 2h ago

Yet you work for another scummy company like Ubisoft that fight to flood single player games with useless battle passes, predatory microtransactions and to take away player ownership of the games they pay for.

This twitter post exposed this fool

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EA SPORTS™ WRC - Development Update

An update on EA SPORTS™ WRC.

Dear Rally Community,

Every great journey eventually finds its finish line, and today, we announce that we've reached the end of the road working on WRC.

Knushwood Butt2d ago

'It marked the first time the studio had used the license in 18 years since 2022’s Colin McRae Rally 3.'

Can you not get AI to do proofreading?

TheColbertinator2d ago

Weird article written by a bot.

In any case I knew EA would ruin Codemasters.

badboyz091d 16h ago (Edited 1d 16h ago )

Codemasters will likely close soon😞