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VideoGamer.com head of video production Simon Miller explains how the site’s comedic approach to E3 helped it stand out from the crowd For E3 2015 VideoGamer – from a video standpoint – decided to try something different. Using comedy as a basis for the majority of our video output has …
Read More »Insight: Doping in eSports – why the stakes are raised as the sector matures
Harbottle & Lewis associateKostyantyn Lobov details the issues facing various areas of the industry as allegations of doping run rampant in the eSports space. Year after year, the march of eSports towards mainstream acceptance continues to gather momentum. However, with prize pools often now stretching into the millions and tournaments …
Read More »One indie’s journey to resurrect local multiplayer
In 2012, Geraldo Nascimento left his native Portugal to move to the UK in order to develop games. A life-long gamer, Nascimento started doing software consultancy work during his Master’s degree in computer science at the University of Lisbon, and realised he wanted to make games. But he says going …
Read More »Joel Gregory joins PCGamesN
GamesMaster editor Joel Gregory has moved to PCGamesN. He has taken on the role of editor at the PC-focused games site. Gregory was first hired by Future in 2010 as a staff writer on Official PlayStation Magazine. He was then promoted to reviews editor in 2011 and then deputy editor …
Read More »Rust will start randomly assigning you gender
Having already toyed with race and penis size, Rust is about to brave yet another frontier – automatically assigning a player’s gender. Until now the game has only offered male player models, but creator Garry Newman has said an upcoming patch the game will add a female design. The female …
Read More »Rory McIlroy PGA Tour scores a UK chart hole in one, first PGA game No.1 since 2008
After seven years of bogies, Rory McIlroy has helped 2015’s instalment in the PGA Tour series straight to the UK retail chart top spot. Rory McIlroy PGA Tour is a big shake-up for the golfing franchise – it’s both the first PGA Tour to drop a year from its title …
Read More »No rape please, but racism is fine – Reddit CEO outlines new rules
Reinstated Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has outlined what he believes is a new future for Reddit where its most distasteful content is stamped out. Effectively it boils down to this: Users can say they don’t like something or someone, but they can’t incite action against others or harass them. As …
Read More »Boys are tired of gaming’s over-sexualised women, too
A new study has found that the majority of teenage boys in the US believe that games unfairly treat women as sex objects. A Time study by Rosalind Wiseman asked US school boys whether they believed female characters are treated too often as sex objects” in video games. 47 per …
Read More »Reddit chief engineer Bethanye Blount quits
Does Reddit have a gender discrimination problem that it needs to address?” That’s the question being posed to Reddit after news that chief engineer Bethanye Blount has quit the company after just two months in the job and just days after CEO Ellen Pao also departed. Pao had endured months …
Read More »Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 launch moved up to August
Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 – the latest in the hit indie horror series – is launching sooner than expected. Creator Scott Cawthon has confirmed the game is now set to release on August 8th – the one-year anniversary of the original Five Nights at Freddy’s launch on Steam. The …
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