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Capcom’s Resident Evil 7 will be returning to retail with a new Gold Edition on December 12th later this year, the publisher has announced. Available on PS4, Xbox One and PC in both physical and digital versions, the Gold Edition will feature all the original content from the original game, …

Creators using Mojang’s Minecraft Marketplace have made more than $1 million since the service launched in June, the company has announced. The program, which allows Minecraft community members to make money from their user-generated in-game content, runs alongside the Minecraft Store, and has seen users create everything from their own …

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 …