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The prize pool for the upcoming Halo 5: Guardians World Championship has swelled to over $2m, 343 Industries has announced. "We’re excited to announce that the Halo World Championship prize pool is now $2,000,000, and continues to grow,” a poston the game’s Twitter accountrevealed. Microsoft previously promised a portion of …

Maria Sayans to serve in newly-created role of chief customer officer

‘Free-to-publish’ GoPlay offering launched in July

Developer CD Projekt has said it would be unfair for the studio not to release a fourth game in the Witcher franchise. While this year’s big hit The Witcher 3 may have been the end of star Geralt’s story, it’s huge critical and commercial success means it almost certainly won’t …

Fun House, the Ubisoft development arm founded to create more quirky titles, has revealed its first full game. Led by Child of Light creative director PatrickPlourde, Fun House was created as a spin-off of Ubisoft Montreal earlier this year in August and initially revealed Eagle’s Flight, an air-bound tech demo …

SuperData’s Joost van Dreunen discusses his new partnership with UKIE

Google Japan veteran to head up location focused on new platform creation

Title features VR 'technology breakthrough' to combat motion sickness

The forthcoming remake of 1997 classic RPG Final Fantasy VII could be released over several episodes. That’s according to publisher Square Enix who said the game will be ‘told across a multi-part series, with each entry providing its own unique experience’. Final Fantasy VII Remake was announced during Sony’s E3 …

Insomniac’s remake of the original Ratchet and Clank title is going to be hitting stores in early 2016. The studio’s boss Ted Price took to the stage at PlayStation Experience and revealed the game would be coming out on April 12th, 2016. This is shortly ahead of the launch of …