Daily Highlights: Friday 4th July

Pardo leaves Blizzard, Bleszinski on Project Bluestreak, Homefront in trouble.
Text: Bengt Lemne
Published 2014-07-04

Shocker this morning as we learned Blizzard chief executive officer Rob Pardo has left his position in other high-profile creative news Cliff Bleszinski revealed his Boss Key Productions' first game is called Project Bluestreak.

Rumours of Crytek's trouble are getting louder as reports which we were able to verify say Crytek UK staff has gone unpaid for six weeks, and we also publish our interview on their game Homefront: The Revolution on GRTV. That interview covers the game though, not the financial troubles.

Even more great viewing on GRTV as Jade Raymond talks of future Ubisoft Toronto projects and her favourite upcoming game (it's Evolve), while Mega Man's father Keiji Inafune feels responsible for poor reviews of his most recent game Yaiba (because of it's name as a matter of fact).

We talked to executive producer John Mamais from CD Projekt Red and shared our impressions of the E3 demo of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and reviewed Just a Pixel's Light.

Civilization: Beyond Earth gets dated, while there was a system error that saw EA Sports UFC and FIFA 14 demos go for £3.99 on Xbox One.

On the lighter side of today's news you can now "go on down to South Park" using Oculus Rift. Also on the lighter side of news we learned Fox News made use of a Bioshock Infinite-smelling logo in all the wrong ways.

Homefront: The Revolution developers at Crytek UK have reportedly gone unpaid for six weeks and many have now stopped working in protest.

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