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Remember that game show where folk would wage war using a version of the Total War engine? It’s coming back. The BBC has revealed that Time Commanders has been renewed for a new run. Creative Assembly’s Total War is seemingly back, too, what with the Total War Twitter account linking …

Games industry marketing expert Jon Rooke has joined 2K. Rooke is a 16-year veteran of the video games industry, including lengthy stints at Vivendi, Microsoft, Sega and THQ. His most recent roles included European marketing director at Sega, global brand director at The Creative Assembly and European marketing director at …

No Man’s Sky won’t quite launch day and date on PC and PS4. The game’s website has confirmed that the PC version of the space adventure will arrive on August 12th. That’s a couple of days after the European release on August 10th and three days after the August 9th …

Before Deus Ex, there were games about stealth and titles about shooting but rarely did these styles cross over. This was a fact that made Deus Ex creator Warren Spector desire for a more open and realistic style of game – where the player had the option to burst in …

The days of answering a knock at the door to be greeted with the sound of an absent courier screeching off down the street could be nearing an end. Retailer Amazon has been given governmental approval to begin testing delivery drones in the UK as part of its Prime Air …

Xbox showed off a lot of products during its E3 briefing this year. It announced not one, but two new consoles. It showed off some of its blockbuster first-party line-up, including new entries in the Gears of War and Forza franchises. But for five minutes, an indie game called We …

Batman: The Telltale Series will bring with it the studio’s first stab at adding multiplayer to its successful narrative game design model. Shacknews reports that the game will introduce a new mode called Crowd Play. Although not formally announced as of yet, it was shown off over the weekend at …

Three Fields Entertainment has admitted that its recent debut release Dangerous Golf hasn’t yet sold in the numbers it was hoping. The game arrived on PC consoles on PC on June 2nd and very much divided critics. On PS4, for instance, the game has a Metacritic score of 56 per …

PS4 owners will not be required to subscribe to PlayStation Plus if they wish to advantage of No Man’s Sky galaxy-spanning online features. While No Man’s Sky is pretty much a single player experience as you roam around the almost impossibly vast game world, the title does boast a number …

If you live in the sticks and haven’t already requested the addition of a Pokegym in your village, then it sounds like you’re out of luck. Pokemon Go developer Niantic had previously introduced a system whereby users were able to request the creation of either gyms of Pokestops at specific …