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The last time that William Leffen” Hjelte played Super Smash Bros. in North America, he swept Juan Hungrybox” Debiedma in the Grand Finals of HTC Throwdown. Just a month later, a visa issue kept him from competing in NA competitions for eight months, and by the time he got back, …

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End looks on track to be a fitting commercial send off for the series. Sony has said that combined physical Blu-ray and digital sell-through of the game worldwide since its launch last week has hit 2.7m units. The game is the fastest selling first party PS4 …

An Assassin’s Creed film? Sure, that makes sense. Angry Birds? Well, if you must. Tetris? Seriously, dude what are you on? Fruit Ninja? Now you’re just trolling. Except this is no troll. The Hollywood Reporter says that Fruit Ninja is indeed the next big game IP in line for the …

The Division publisher has announced four promotions within its UK marketing team. PR executive David Burroughs has been promoted to junior PR manager. He will be taking the lead on the Just Dance franchise over the next year. After spending over a year as marketing exec, Will Buck is now …

The organisers of the upcoming games festival discuss why these events are vital to finding future talent for the industry

Mojang has paired up with NetEase to make a bespoke version of Minecraft fro the Chinese market. The deal is for a PC version of Minecraft for Pocket, fully localised for the region. It’s a good fit, you’d think, what with China’s propensity for digital PC titles. We’ll always embrace …

Publisher Avanquest is now entirely dedicated to video games. The UK firm used to publish a number of non-game software, but that has now changed following the firm’s acquisition by US publisher Maximum Games. Avanquest will now be called Maximum Games, and its line-up for the year includes PS4 and …

Popular mobile puzzle game Monument Valley is now two years old, and total downloads across all major mobile platforms has now surpassed 26m. 3m were racked up in the first year, meaning the game was downloaded a whopping 23m times between April 3rd, 2015 and April 3rd, 2016. Despite being …

Sega, once a dominant force in the console space, has reduced its presence in the sector over the years. Though it still supports console platforms, the firm is today best known as a PC publisher, producing the likes of Football Manager, Total War, Company of Heroes and Dawn of War. …

The launch of SimCity in 2013 has become one of gaming’s most infamous online cock-ups. The Maxis title arrived alongside a huge amount of hype, but the decision to require that even single player users log onto EA’s systems to access their game led to millions being unable to play …