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Creative marketing agency Substance Global has two new hires in its social media and project teams, as well as one promotion, the firm has announced. After six years at GameSpot, Sarah Lynch (pictured left) joins as project manager to support the team’s work on its entertainment clients, including Netflix, and …

Made with Code allows users to code three scenes from the recent DC Universe film

Production agency Attention Seekers has today announced that it’s entered into an exclusive agreement with BT Productions – the production arm of BT Sport – to produce new TV formats and live content programming based around games. The joint venture will see Attention Seekers creating content that covers all forms …

Veteran PlayStation developer to launch a new title for a franchise at E3

The Pokemon Company released its latest financial report this week, and its net sales reached an incredible $143.3m in the last fiscal year (ended February 28th 2017), showing a massive growth of 2,458 per cent compared to last year. To put that in perspective – that’s 26x higher than The …

The creators behind PlayStation titles Pain and Ratchet: Deadlocked HD have reformed to create a brand-new studio. Previously known as Idol Minds, the studio has now re-branded itself as Deck Nine Games, marking a new direction for the Colorado-based development team as it shifts its focus toward narrative-driven games. Deck …

GTA publisher have been 'persistently knocking on our door'

Take-Two has acquired the IP rights to Squad’s physics-based space sim game Kerbal Space Program, the publisher has announced. The title, which was originally released on Steam in April 2015, has sold over 2m copies so far, and received a PS4 and Xbox One port in July last year. The …

Sonic Mania finally has a release date, and it’s getting a special collector’s edition for the Nintendo Switch to boot, Sega has confirmed. Launching on August 15th 2017 for PS4, Xbox One, PC and Switch, Sonic Mania celebrates the best of classic Sonic with all the benefits of modern day …

After more than ten years on shop shelves, Sony has finally ceased production of the PlayStation 3, according to the official Japanese PlayStation website. As translated by Gematsu, shipments for the standard 500GB model have now officially ‘ended’. Sony previously hinted at the end of its production run back in …