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Project Godus is the first and perhaps only full game from Peter Molyneux’s studio 22 Cans. The veteran developer has explained to VG247 how an abundance of strict publisher control helped him consider Kickstarter instead, and why putting the beta into investor’s hands will help Godus become a better game.

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22 Cans designers Peter Molyneux and Jack Attridge discuss which design elements to “steal” from Bullfrog’s past games for Project GODUS.

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Peter Molyneux’s studio 22 Cans launched a Kickstarter page for what is supposedly its one and only game release. It’s a god sim called Godus that attempts to recreate and improve on the foundation laid by Molyneux’s 1989 PC title Populous. However, a tearful Molyneux has revealed that he’s concerned that Curiosity’s server issues have created distrust among gamers. More below.

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Peter Molyneux and 22Cans have launched a Kickstarter for Project Godus, an “innovative reinvention of Populous,” the original god game. It promises “exciting global co-operation, competition, creation and destruction to a whole new generation.”

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Curiosity, the app experiment from 22Cans, will have “six big new features” which could be added next week, according to Peter Molyneux who said the content was designed based on “how people interact” with the app. Yesterday, the team responsible for the Cube servers said an update eliminating future loss of coins was “in the pipeline” and being submitted for review by Apple. It will be released first on Android within the next few days. Thanks, CVG.

22Cans has said it “regrets and apologizes” for the coin loss and connection issues players have been experiencing with Curiosity.

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Peter Molyneux has called on the games industry to extend its reach beyond established gamers.

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Curiosity: What’s Inside the Cube? has been battered by ongoing server issues since it launched last week. Peter Molyneux cube-tapping bonanza has been lagging, crashing out and has been wiping player’s hard-earned coins without reason. The developer has now admitted that the situation isn’t good enough. Get his thoughts below.

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22Cans will announce the firm’s next project, Cooperation, sometime “early next week,”according to Peter Molyneux.

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22Cans and Peter Molyneux have released a video, apologizing for technical issues with Curiosity: What’s Inside The Cube?. The video explains that the issues stem from server issues caused by a high volume of folks playing the mobile title. The team is working on resolving the issues, with the ultimate goal being users to log on instantaneously and for concurrent users to be able to perform block taps in actual real-time. Watch below.

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Peter Molyneux may have just launched Curiosity: What’s Inside the Cube? on smartphone and tablets this week, but he’s not convinced by the way tablet devices are being used by Wii U and via Xbox SmartGlass. He reckons it’s a case of tech guys running wild with ideas without thinking of the logistics.

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Curiosity: What’s Inside the Cube? should be receiving its first title update today, 22 Cans head Peter Molyneux has revealed. The fix wills top your hard-earned coins magically disappearing at random.

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Peter Molyneux has discussed the love-hate relationship between developers and monetisation in a new interview, calling it a ‘disgusting’ discussion for studios to have. The developer’s indie studio 22 Cans has just this week launched its debut app Curiosity: What’s Inside the Cube? – a game which will soon include microtransactions.

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Curisoty: What’s Inside the Cube? has progressed to its second layer. Users are now chipping away images of green bubbles to reveal something red on the surface of layer three. Check out the cube’s current stats and status below.

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Curiosity: What’s Inside The Cube? creator Peter Molyneux has laid out his wildest dream for the project: to see 100 million people tapping away at it in one day.

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Curiosity: What’s Inside The Cube? has enjoyed a wobbly but fruitful launch day, with just under 158,000 players descending on Peter Molyneux’s box of mystery to tap away at its surface. 97 million ‘cubelets’ have been obliterated by your fingers. Good work, but there’s still much to do.

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Curiosity: What’s Inside the Cube? the mad, but genius app from Peter Molyneux’s studio 22 Cans launched early on iOS today, and the Android version is available now. What are you waiting for? Get tapping!

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Curiosity: What’s Inside The Cube has launched. VG247′s Dave Cook begins his cube tapping journey, and ponders if Peter Molyneux’s project is actually a work of genius.

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Peter Molyneux and his faux-Twitter self, Adam Capone – a.k.a PeterMolydeux, recently sat down with Wired to discuss how the parody account came to be, and how it inspired Molyneux to go independent. It’s an extremely comprehensive feature, and will take some time to read, but if you are a fan of either Molydeux or Molyneux, you’ll want to make the time. In it, Molyneux drops hints regrading 22 Cans’ next title, and Capone discusses the inspiration behind the parody account and his thoughts on the Molyjam events it birthed.

It’s not strictly news, but it will be new to many of you: Eurogamer has a bittersweet feature running on unreleased games from Peter Molyneux-headed teams Bullfrog Productions and Lionhead Studios. You probably remember Kinect experiment Milo and Kate, but check out lost treasures Creation, The Indestructibles, B.C. and Unity – then vow to buy every quirky, clever game released from now until the end of time if only the pre-release culling of these delights will stop.