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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 …
Read More »Outside Xbox reaches 1m YouTube subscribers
Gamer Network’s Xbox-based video outlet Outside Xbox has surpassed one million subscribers. The channel was launched in August 2012 2012 by Andy Farrant, Mike Channell and Jane Douglas, and is focused on Microsoft and Xbox content. In addition to smashing one million subscribers on YouTube, the outlet has seen year-on-year …
Read More »Space Engineers studio Keen launches AI firm GoodAI
Space Engineers developer Keen Software House has unveiled the formation of GoodAI – a sister company of the studio focused on general artificial intelligence. Keen’s founder and CEO Marek Rosa announced the news on hispersonal blog, explaining GoodAI formed from within Keen itself: "One of my life-long dreams has always …
Read More »Twitch mobile games streaming arrives on some Sony devices
Owners of the Xperia Z3 or Xperia Z4 are now able to stream their mobile games directly to Twitch. That’s thanks to a partnership between the video network and Sony and marks a first for Twitch, which until now hasn’t offered a mobile streaming solution outside of a few select …
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