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Ubisoft has announced that the first free update from Rainbow Six Siege Year 2 is now available for Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Year 2 pass holders can download the Operation Velvet Shell update from today, but non-season pass holders will have to wait until February 14th before they can …
Read More »Cultural Diversity’s Positive Impact
SuperData’s Stephanie Llamas investigates the reasons racial and ethnic diversity are underrepresented in games, and the effects that this has on their audiences
Read More »Mass Effect Andromeda: Everything you need to know, release date, free trial, price, pre-order deals, season pass, PS4 Pro support and official merchandise
Bioware’s Mass Effect trilogy was one of the most popular sci-fi series of the last generation. Now the Canadian studio’s finally bringing its grand space opera to PS4, Xbox One and PC. Dubbed Mass Effect Andromeda, the latest entry in its intergalactic RPG series promises a world four times the …
Read More »Psychonauts 2 to be published by Starbreeze
Starbreeze has signed a publishing deal with Double Fine for Psychonauts 2, the company announced this morning. Starbreeze will be investing $8m to bring the game to PC and console via digital distribution. Psychonauts 2 was successfully funded through crowd-funding last year on Fig, and Starbreeze says it will be …
Read More »For Honor: Everything you need to know, release date, price, beta and season pass info, merchandise and pre-order deals
It’s been a while since we’ve seen Ubisoft take a chance on something new, but its upcoming online hack and slash title For Honor looks set to change that. With creative director Jason VandenBerghe leading the team, whose previous works include Far Cry 3 and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, For …
Read More »Currency shifts muddle Sony figures – but industry can celebrate strong PS4 sales
Sony’s Game and Network Services division announced its third-quarter results today, for the key trading period up to the 31st of December. Sales for the division were up by 5.2% year-on-year to $5.3bn, though that amounted to an impressive rise of 15% on a constant currency basis. Shifting exchange rates …
Read More »Hutch raises $5.5m of investment to help strengthen its mobile ambitions
British free-to-play mobile studio Hutch has raised $5.5m of investment, the company confirmed today. The investment was co-led by Index Ventures and Backed VC and comes just after the release of Hutch’s licensed Mattel title, Hot Wheels: Race Off. Since it launched last Christmas, Hot Wheels: Race Off has attracted …
Read More »Blazing Griffin secures £5m in funding to support further studio growth
Scottish digital entertainment group Blazing Griffin has just completed its Series A round of venture capital financing, the company announced today, raising a total of 5m led by private investors and matched by the Scottish Investment Bank. Blazing Griffin says the funds will be used to help support its continued …
Read More »The Develop Post-Mortem: Dying Light
From a potential sequel through to independent project and finally successful game, Sean Cleaver talks to Techland’s Tymon Smektala about the storied production of Dying Light
Read More »Zenimax Snaps up Escalation Studios
The studio, which helped to make Snapmap on Doom, are working with other Zenimax studios.
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