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Nintendo announce commitment at Nintendo Indies

Epic Games, The Mill and Chevrolet team up to demonstrate new digital filmmaking technologies

The term ‘Netflix for games’ is bounded about all too frequently, but a new service from Microsoft might be just that for Xbox owners. Xbox Games Pass will cost 7.99 a month and offer members the chance to access a constantly shifting library of titles. It’s very much along the …

Encouraging next generation of designers to get involved with the industry early

A project designed to preserve the history and culture of the games industry is now live. The Video Games History Foundation is headed up by former games journalist and developer Frank Cifaldi. We’re non-profit corporation dedicated to figuring out how to save as much video game history as we can, …

It looks like CCP’s Gunjack might be the best-selling VR title to date. Speaking to Games Industry, CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Ptursson said that the space shooter has so far sold over half a million copies. I think [this] is a record,” he added. I’m certainly gonna claim it until …

Twitch has announced it will start selling games and in-game content directly through its streaming platform starting this spring. Both developers and Partnered Twitch streamers will be able to get a cut of the money made from game sales, with developers earning 70 per cent of the revenue and streamers …

Quad damage

Ubisoft’s For Honor is the UK No.1 for the second week in a row, despite a hefty drop in sales. Physical unit sales for the game were down 72 per cent week-on-week, although this was still enough to force Microsoft And THQ Nordic’s Halo Wars 2 to settle for second …

It's been a bigger hit than Sony were expecting