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Axis Studios has produced many incredible game trailers – including that famous 2011 Dead Island trailer, as well as content for Halo, League of Legends and more. We talk to CEO Richard Scott (pictured) about what’s next for the company. Tell us about Axis for those unfamiliar with your work. Axis Studios …

Telltale Games has seen huge success with its numerous point and click franchises, but it appears that sales for Tales of the Borderlands were rather more disappointing compared to its lauded stablemates. No exact figures have been revealed, but in a recently published oral history of the game’s development on …

Enhance Games has announced that its award-winning game Rez Infinite is now available to buy on PC for the very first time. Originally developed for the PS4 and PS VR, players can now buy the game on Steam and Oculus Home. It’s also compatible with the HTC Vive and will …

Fig has today announced its first-ever returns to investors. Accredited investors who purchased Fig Game Shares for Kingdom and Castles, the first Fig-funded game to be released, has earned a 2x (or 100 per cent) return on their initial investment after just a few weeks following the game’s launch. The …

Game publisher Kongregate has announced a new $10m initiative to help fund promising indie titles on PC and console. The move continues Kongregate’s expansion into cross-platform publishing and will include both paid and free-to-play titles. The fund will provide independent developers with customised marketing, financial assistance and production support, as …

Film division of the Indie publisher to release movie by UK film maker Jonathan Beals on September 19th

Despite being on sale for just two days last month, Square Enix’s Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age was the best-selling game in Japan this July, according to the latest figures from Famitsu. As we reported last week, the 3DS version ofDragon Quest XI sold an incredible 1.1m …

Devolver Digital Films has announced its feature-length documentary film around the rise of Call of Duty will release worldwide on major video-on-demand platforms and Steam on September 19th 2017. The 93-minute film, dubbed CODumentary,was written, directed and produced in the UK by Jonathan Beales, and is set to explore how …

When building a platform, one of the first challenges is persuading developers that experimenting with it is a good use of their time. The next challenge is learning from all the fantastically inventive ways developers find the edges of your tech. Improbable’s platform, SpatialOS, enables game developers to build massive, …

Sega remains one of the most recognisable names in the video game business. That’s still largely thanks to its days as a platform holder, though since then the company has diversified into every area of publishing, utilising its immense back catalogue to great effect and working with top-end developers on …