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Team Dignitas has signed the former Creation eSports Overwatch team, as the organisation enters Blizzard’s shooter for the first time. Dignitas has paid an undisclosed fee for the team, although a statement from Creation eSports mentioned that the team’s contracts were up for renewal soon. "We saw the great potential …
Read More »New ID@XBox game I, Hope will donate all profits to cancer charities
Title is also designed to help entertain young patients during long hospital stays and difficult treatments
Read More »CastAR appoints former LucasArts boss as CEO
Darrell Rodriguez heads up augmented reality firm, Disney’s Steve Parkis joins as COO
Read More »BAFTA forms virtual reality advisory group
Team will be led from Los Angeles, investigate the impact of VR on games, TV and film
Read More »Xbox One beats PS4 in US in July, but 3DS is the overall monthly champ
For the first time since October 2015, Xbox One has beat PS4 in the monthly US sales race. This comes on the back of some heavy discounting to the console as Microsoft cleared stock ahead of the launch of the Xbox One S earlier this month. Sales of the machine …
Read More »Respawn: ‘We are treating Titanfall 2 like a new IP’
It may have the number ‘2′ after its name, but Respawn is treating its Titanfall sequel like a new IP. Speaking to MCV @ Gamescom, the studio’s COO Dusty Welch and art director Joel Emslie said that, as a result of the original Titanfall not launching on PS4, the franchise’s …
Read More »Got an idea for a VR/AR innovation? Pitch it to Hasbro and more at Toy Inventors Workshop
Do you have an idea? We’re looking for innovations in for AR, VR, holographic, or robotic tech – and we want to hear from you
Read More »‘Publishers are now calling us’ – How Life is Strange has transformed Dontnod
Dontnod says its perception in the industry has been transformed on the back of hit episodic game Life is Strange. The company was in financial trouble after its disappointing first game, 2013’s Remember Me, and was rescued when Square Enix invested in Life is Strange. The title was a huge …
Read More »Constructor HD gets January release date
System 3’s popular RTS building franchise will return 20 years after it first launched. Constructor HD has been given a release date of January 31st, 2017 which makes it one of the first promising titles to launch next year. The game reunites many of the original development team and will …
Read More »Destiny content faces further Xbox One lockout
PlayStation-exclusive content that had been expected to arrive on Xbox One this autumn will now not hit the console until autumn 2017 at the earliest. Polygon reports that a range of exclusive PlayStation content that arrived alongside last year’s Destiny: The Taken King had previously been marked down as being …
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