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Open marketplace Itch.io has admitted that some users have been using its platform to sell fraudulent copies of popular indie games. A Kotaku UKreport revealed that two big indie hits – Rimworld and Dead Cells – were put up for sale on the Itch.io marketplace at big discounts. Neither were …

UK sporting retailer Sports Direct has acquired 44m shares in GAME Digital. This means that the company, headed by controversial UK businessman Mike Ashley, now owns over a quarter of the struggling video games specialist. The move has seen GAME’s share price recover a little. It had fallen to as …

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The studio behind Wasteland and Tides of Numenera has announced it’s working on a VR open world survival RPG title after securing a combined equity and project investment of $4.5m from a subsidiary of Japan’s global entertainment publisher and developer Gumi Inc. InXile Entertainment, who’s also currently working on Wasteland …

Expansions for narrative games are becoming too big for their boots. Jem Alexander thinks these smaller triple-A experiences are a great way to remove financial pressure from developers and players alike

A team of ex-ARM and Guerrilla Cambridge devs have set up a new company based in Cambridge dedicated to revolutionising the worlds of virtual, augmented and mixed reality technology and content. Virtual Arts was initially formed in December 2016 when co-founders Nizar Romdan and Doug Day (CEO and CTO respectively) …

Blizzard has unveiled details on its Overwatch League, with a list of team owners putting an end to a lot of speculation regarding who will be competing, but the lack of a date giving more fuel to the burning questions about when, exactly. Teams will be based in Boston, Los …

Oculus’ recent price cut to its Rift virtual reality headset as part of its Summer of Rift sale may be actually doing more harm than good, says research firm SuperData. Oculus dropped the price of its Rift + Touch bundle by another 200 in the UK on Monday,taking the price …

Peripheral company Logitech has announced its acquisition of headset and sound outfit Astro Gaming in a deal worth $85m in cash. While Logitech are known primarily for their PC peripherals, Astro has strong brand awareness in the console space for their headsets, and by acquiring them Logitech has put itself …

Konami has teamed up with Topps Trading Cards for a special PES 2018 promotion, which will see limited edition UEFA Champions League Match Attax trading cards for the upcoming 2017-18 tournament appearing in boxed copies of the game. Starting on September 14th to coincide with the game’s launch on PS4, …