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Read More »Adult Swim’s Big Pixel Studios – creator of Pocket Mortys – to shut down
For the good of the industry – can Sony and Xbox please clarify their Cyberpunk 2077 returns policy
Send out the Trauma Team now! Sony and Microsoft must stand with CDPR for this mess, as they both passed the game through their TRCs
Read More »Does Nintendo, Sony and Xbox’s ‘Shared Commitment to Safer Gaming’ go far enough?
Platform holders can do more and be more transparent, although it must also be remembered that online discourse will always be tricky to police – just ask Facebook or Twitter
Read More »Steam breaks its record for concurrent users, at nearly 25m
Steam has once again broken its own record for the highest number of concurrent users ever recorded on the platform
Read More »CD Projekt Red offers refunds on Cyberpunk 2077, apologises for not showing last-gen gameplay footage
"We should have paid more attention to making it play better on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One."
Read More »EA to acquire Codemasters for $1.2 billion
“We believe there is a deeply compelling opportunity in bringing together Codemasters and Electronic Arts to create amazing and innovative new racing games for fans"
Read More »[ICYMI] Codemasters: a formula for multi-platform success
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We look back at our in-depth interview with CEO Frank Sagnier and SVP of product development Clive Moody to understand Codemasters' long-term strategy
Read More »The UK games industry contributed a record £2.91bn to the national economy in 2019
“These new figures underline how successfully, and quickly, the UK industry is growing"
Read More »The Nintendo Switch outsold the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in their launch month in the US
Despite seeing the launch of The Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, the best selling console of November 2020 was actually the Nintendo Switch in the United States
Read More »Ark: Survival Evolved to get an animated TV series
ARK: Survival Evolved is being adapted into an animated TV series, titled Ark: The Animated Series.
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