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Hugh Laurie will be joining Stephen Fry on the voice cast list of upcoming PS4 and PS3 title LittleBigPlanet 3. Laurie is voicing antagonist Newton, while Fry returns as the game’s iconic narrator. It’s not nearly as different as I might have thought ten years ago; storytelling is storytelling, whatever …

A developer working on Assassin’s Creed: Unity has said that the game has been made to run at a reduced resolution of 900p on PS4 to keep it in line with the Xbox One release. Both versions of the title will run at 900p and 30fps – which was also …

PS4 owners in the UK will be able to begin pre-loading DriveClub onto their consoles this Wednesday. That means they’ll have two days to get the 17GB game installed onto their consoles before its official release on Friday (October 10th). Pre-loading is due to start any moment in the US …

Daniel Dawkins, group editor-in-chief for games, tells MCV about Future Publishing’s major transition and the challenge of good journalism What are your main campaigns at the moment? We’re busy with the Golden Joysticks Awards, which move to a fantastic new venue this year, Indigo at 02. We’ve already broken a …

Microsoft will ship DirectX 12 alongside Windows 10 in 2015, the computing firm has announced. The company has also revealed the latest version of its DirectX API will be supported by Unreal Engine 4.4. Developers in the Early Access program who subscribe to UE4 will also have access to the …

API gets Unreal Engine 4 support

Users can interact with virtual world in physical space

Tiny Death Star studio Nimblebit unaware of Disney's plans until game was removed from app stores

Halo franchise developer 343 Industries will pack a batch of maps previously exclusive to Windows PC into Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Xbox One. A new post on Halo Waypoint explains that six maps from the original Halo and two maps from Halo 2 will be included in the …

Reports suggest decades-old Japanese studio suffering debt problems