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The Japanese publisher of recently-released action RPG title Nioh says the game has helped expand its audience. Speaking to MCV, the firm’s president Hisashi Koinuma said that while the publisher takes pride in its more traditional Japanese line-up, which includes the likes of the Warriors series and Nobunaga’s Ambition, its …
Read More »Team Kinguin announces new deal with nutrition supplier Runtime
Team Kinguin has announced a new sponsorship deal with Runtime, the company that makes nutritional drinks and supplements aimed at the eSports market. The deal sees Runtime become an official partner of the organisation and will provide performance nutrition products to Team Kinguin’s CS:GO and League of Legends teams. In …
Read More »Ghost Recon Wildlands open beta arriving on February 23rd
Ubisoft has announced that the open beta for its upcoming open world title Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands will be available next week between February 23rd and February 27th for all players, with pre-load starting next Monday on the 20th. The open beta will see players romping around two of …
Read More »Snowprint Studios launch new Berlin studio with former Black Anvil team
New studio to work on mid-core mobile titles
Read More »Cities: Skylines coming to Xbox One this spring
Management sim Cities: Skylines is coming to Xbox One later this year, Paradox Interactive has announced. The game will launch this spring and will also include the original’s first expansion, Cities: Skylines – After Dark. Cities: Skylines – Xbox One Edition is being ported by Tantalus Media (previously responsible for …
Read More »Gabe Newell: “At Valve, we don’t have a budgeting process”
Newell sheds light on how games get made at Valve
Read More »Starbreeze’s StarVR headset to enter mass production late 2017
Starbreeze is to begin mass producing its StarVR headsets later this year, the company revealed in its full year report for 2016. For now, the publisher will continue to distribute and prioritise development on the current version of the headset to its key partners, but there’s been interest from "multiple …
Read More »Starbreeze net revenue up 58%, ‘over the moon’ with Dead by Daylight
Starbreeze has released it full year-end report for 2016 and its net revenue for the year was up 58 per cent year-on-year, reaching 345.5m Swedish Krona (SEK) (or 31m). The publisher had a particularly healthy Q4 as well, with net revenue totalling 99.4m SEK (8.9m), showing a growth of 103 …
Read More »RSC Anderlecht looking to sign a FIFA player
Belgian football club RSC Anderlecht has announced its intention to sign a FIFA player. The club will hold an open trial on April 29th and 30th, with up to 256 player taking part. Those that do well will be invited to annual RSCA fan day where the final round of …
Read More »Sony to cease PlayStation Now support for everything but the PS4 and PC
Won't somebody think of the PS Vita?
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