There has been a Forza branded game released every year since 2012. Three of these have been created by Leamington Spa-based Playground Games, earning acclaim as some of the best racers ever. Sean Cleaver speaks to creative director Ralph Fulton to find out the story of Forza Horizon 3
Read More »The numbers continue to rise for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite
The popularity of the battle royale genre continues apace with Epic and PUBG Inc games achieving record numbers
Read More »Game for a Laugh: The road to stand-up – Pt.4
Indie developer Byron Atkinson-Jones is going on stage to tell jokes in the name of charity. This month, he gets some advice from fellow games industry member, Claire Sharkey
Read More »Leap Motion opens new research studio in London
The VR and AR motion tracking company will be working with award winning film maker Keiichi Matsuda
Read More »PlayStack: Reinventing Publishing
Young publisher PlayStack intends to bring indie developers the money, guidance and marketing nous to make the most of their dream games. Jem Alexander speaks to CEO Harvey Elliott about the company's philosophy and how developers can get involved
Read More »Epic announce the ‘Epic MegaJam’ for UE4
The Unreal Engine game jam will kick off on November 2nd for seven days
Read More »OneSpecialDay raises over £300,000 smashing the £100k target
Donations from the games industry and fundraising events on September 29th all contributed towards the total
Read More »Nintendo and Dark Horse to publish Arms graphic novel
After the success of its Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia books, Nintendo and comics publisher Dark Horse have announced a brand-new graphic novel centred around its family-friendly fighting game, Arms. Illustrated by Joe Ng, thegraphic novel is set to arrive in Fall 2018 and willlikely explore the game’s rather bizarre …
Read More »Synapse Games acquired by Kongregate
The Animation Showdown developer gets purchased by the MTG owned publisher
Read More »PlayStation bolsters Christmas lineup with Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition
Sony will be bringing a ‘Complete Edition’ of Horizon Zero Dawn to retail later this year – according to a tweet from the official account last night. The ‘game-of-the-year’ style release will include the original game, with all the additional ‘Digital Deluxe’ content, plus the upcoming Frozen Wilds expansion that …
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