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Read More »Early Access comes to PS4 with Dungeon Defenders 2
Pre-alpha version of tower defence game to be released on September 29th
Read More »Margin Makers: Guide to tabletop games
The TV screen isn’t the only place to find innovative gameplay and gripping multiplayer. MCV gets physical with the finest board and card games out there It’s not long now until battered copies of Monopoly and Scrabble are extracted from dusty cupboards in anticipation of Christmas family gatherings. You might …
Read More »Meet the UK studio trying to resurrect P.T. on Kickstarter
A new UK studio wants to bring Konami’s abandoned horror concept back from the dead in creepy new horror, Allison Road. London-based Lilith has been working on the game for several months and has now taken to Kickstarter in an effort to make the game ‘the best it can be’. …
Read More »Kate Gray joins GameSpot UK
Attention Seeker’s Kate Gray has joined the UK brand of media giant GameSpot Gray was a presenter, writer and producer on Attention Seeker’s Xbox On brand. She started her career in the games media when she joined Official Nintendo Magazine as a staff writer in 2014, before moving over to …
Read More »Konami’s Cox joins Fish in a Bottle
New studio hires veteran dev to lead expansion into core games
Read More »Made in Britain: The UK digital games renaissance
To truly call something a trend, at least three things along a similar theme need to occur. This proves that individual events were not simply random. And one trend this summer is that British indies sure know how to make a digital smash hit. Over just a few weeks we …
Read More »PC RTS Age of Mythology getting a second expansion pack, 12 years after its first
Perhaps as proof that it’s never too late for DLC, 13-year-old PC game Age of Mythology is getting a new expansion pack. The real-time strategy title, which features a host of mythical figures and creatures, was originally released back in 2002. Its first (and until now, only) expansion set, The …
Read More »Gunning for gold: How Robo Pixel won Gamescom’s UK Game of the Show award
'It’s great to have people who will tell us straight what’s good and what’s crap'
Read More »Konami vet Cox joins new studio Fish in a Bottle
Former Konami studio head David Coxhas joined digital production company Fish in a Bottle in an effort to grow its core games business. Cox worked at Konami for 17 years, joining in 1997 as UK product manager. He then rose to European product manager in 1999, before becoming studio head …
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