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During a livestream earlier today, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot announced the creation of a new studio in Saguenay (Quebec, Canada) and a massive investment plan for the region – the most important one for Ubisoft since it opened its first studio in Quebec in 1997. Ubisoft Saguenay will open as …

Saguenay will be the fourth studio in the area, opening January 31st, 2018, with the second opening at a later date in the future

Fast Travel Games, the VR studio founded by ex-EA, Rovio and DICE employees, has announced it’s raised a $2.1m series A funding rounded. The funding was led by leading Nordic venture capital firm Industrifonden, with participation from Creades, Inbox Capital and existing investor Sunstone Capital. This brings the company’s total …

We catch up with founder and managing director Luke Keighran to talk about how Merge Games embraced the Switch, why special editions of PC titles are still relevant and why indie games saturation is a double-edged sword What’s your overarching strategy and how has it evolved over the past few years? When I …

Team expert has dropped their Overwatch roster, according to tweets from the team’s former support player Marcel ‘Veineless’ Lehmann. Lehmann took to twitter to confirm the team’s release from Team expert, stating that he’s now a free agent and looking for offers as a support or coach for Overwatch. “Expert …

Revenue from Swedish game developers increased to €1.4bn in 2016, showing a growth of 1,000 per cent since 2010, according to the 2017 edition of the Swedish Game Developer Index. Of that figure, €35m (or 25 per cent) was generated by micro, small or medium sized companies, and the staff …

Hyper Dash works by making the player move more physically to enable in-game movement, lowering visual and sensory dissonance.

Ubisoft has announced a new partnership between its upcoming Assassin’s Creed Origins title and Monster Energy. Not only will more 500m Monster Energy drinks receive custom Assassin’s Creed Origins character designs, including protagonist Bayek, but the deal will also allow fans to access special in-game items and prizes. Starting on …

Swery, the creator of Deadly Premonition and D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die and founder of new indie studio White Owls, has announced that his next game will be funded through crowd-funding platform Fig. The Good Life, which Swery describes as a ‘debt repayment life simulation RPG’, is part murder mystery …

Switch exclusive Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle didn’t manage to take the top spot for its first week in the charts, as Uncharted: The Lost Legacy remained No.1 for a second week. Sales for Sony’s title were down 70 per cent week-on-week though. Ubisoft’s Mario + Rabbids debuted at No.2 …