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After that anger that greeted its recent changes, Valve has further tweaked Steam’s user review system. It was announced last week that buyers who purchase a game outside of Steam would no longer have their review scores contribute to a game’s overall store average. This was designed to curb the …
Read More »12 more universities join Crytek’s VR First programme
Engine firm’s virtual reality educational initiative now partners with 26 academic institutes
Read More »CCP’s Hilmar Veigar Pétursson explains the company’s London move
The UK games industry can be contrary at the best of times and right now, in the face of Brexit uncertainty, it’s contradicting even the most optimistic of analysts. The vote to leave the EU saw some countries threaten to pull support from Britain. It saw the pound plunge, share …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: PCR boosts editorial team
PCR hires deputy editor and staff writer,British eSports Association scores content director and MLG appoints anew CEO. PCR strengthens its team MCV’s sister title PCR has strengthened its team, following the departure of editor Dominic Sacco and online editor Laura Barnes. Jonathan Easton has been appointed deputy editor, having previously …
Read More »Remedy boss Tero Virtala on Quantum Break and the studio’s new strategy
Quantum Break was quite an achievement. Not commercially. Not really. Xbox calls it ‘the biggest-selling new Microsoft Studios IP for Xbox One’ – which means it outsold Sunset Overdrive and Ori and the Blind Forest… hardly your typical barometers for success. Nor was it a runaway smash with the critics. …
Read More »Increased mobile engine competition sees Perk sell Corona Labs to CEO
Roj Niyogi stepping down as Perk president, two firms will still work together
Read More »Sainsbury’s kills its streaming and digital services
UK supermarket Sainsbury’s has called time on its Entertainment on Demand streaming and digital retail service. Over the last four years we have enjoyed providing our customers with eBooks, MP3 music, digital magazines, and movies and TV on demand,” it said. We have made some great progress and learnt a …
Read More »Sky invests in Ginx TV
Sky plc has invested 1.55 million in Ginx TV, the company behind Ginx eSports TV, the only 24 hour eSports TV channel in the UK. ITV has also invested the same amount into Ginx TV, with both companies having the option to acquire further holdings. We’re really excited to have …
Read More »Jagex auctions off loot from banned players
'Bank Bidders' won't know what they're bidding for until they've won
Read More »Armada Opens Up About the Original Evidence.zip
Many of the top players have borne witness to Leffen’s rise over the past few years, but only Armada has been there since the beginning.From their earliest meeting to Leffen’s ban to getting taken down for the very first time, Armada recalls his tumultous relationship with Leffen — and why …
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