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Devolver Digital has announced its upcoming online action game Absolver will receive a limited physical release in when it launches next month. This is in addition to its standard digital release. Launching on PS4 and PC on August 29th, Devolver Digital will also be releasing 3,250 physical collector’s editions per …

BioWare’s general manager Aaryn Flynn has announced its departure from the studio, with former Mass Effect lead Casey Hudson due to return and take over the role. This was announced in two posts on BioWare’s blog, with Flynn saying he’ll be leaving at the end of July after 17 years …

Keeping mobile users engaged with new apps and games is a tricky business, butrowth marketing platform Iterable has released a new report analysing how game publishers can do just that – which is important, considering 62 per cent of smartphone owners are now installing a game within a week of …

Kalypso Media has reported significant growth in its Asian and Russian operations, with China now forming 20 per cent of the publisher’s overall digital PC sales. That’s an increase of 19 per cent year-on-year. The publisher has also seen promising pre-sale figures for several of its upcoming titles in China …

Ubisoft has announced its Q1 sales report for fiscal year 2017-18. Sales were up 45.2 per cent year-on-year between April and June 30th, amounting to €202.1m. That’s just over €30m more than expectations. Of that €202.1m, 94.3 per cent came from back catalogue sales, which equated to €190.4m. A lot …

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The Overwatch League could be about to face its latest hurdle, a legal challenge from Major League Baseball, over OWL’s logo. This comes from the law firm Morrison Lee, who report that MLB, after seeing the Overwatch League’s logo in a weekly newsletter roundup of new corporate logos. This is …

Psyonix’s car-based kickabout Rocket League is two years old this month, and while most toddlers can’t even string a sentence together, Rocket League has managed to mark itself out as one of the most promising esports of the generation. Over those two years, Rocket League has picked up 33m players, …

Atari finally offered a first look at its new mysterious console, after teasing the product at E3 2017. Called the Ataribox, it aims at delivering both classic gamingcontent” and current gamingcontent,” the announcement reads, without further details on what we should expect. Atari rather chose to focus on giving details …

Hand-tracking company Leap Motion has raised another $50m in Series C funding led by JP Morgan Asset Management, the firm has announced. This brings Leap Motion’s total fund-raising amount to just over $94m, according to Crunchbase. As described in a blog post on Leap Motion’s website, the funding will allow …