Publishing

Industry body presents ten recommendations for a successful UK games industry

Runescape developer will use the technology for future projects

Two years after its inception, voice and text chat app Discord has announced that it has now reached 45m users. Mashable reports that concurrent users have hit a peak 4m, with daily active users standing at a massive 8.9m. As of July 2016 Discord had only 11m users, meaning that …

Ubisoft has revealed two big sequels will arrive before March 2018. Far Cry 5 and The Crew 2 have both been name dropped by the company, as well as confirmation that a new Assassin’s Creed game will arrive in the same time frame – presumably called Origins and set in …

Hot off the back of securing $500m of investment from Softbank, UK developer Improbable has just secured its most high profile partner yet in the form of Jagex. The two UK companies have today announced a technology partnership that will see the Runescape developer use Improbable’s SpatialOS tech in a …

The series is the one of the last regular EA releases to be moved on to DICE's engine

A rhythm action dream team is working on a brand new mystery project. PaRappa the Rapper creator Masaya Matsuura and Gitaroo Man creator Keiichi Yano have joined forces for a new game currently going under the glorious name of Project Rap Rabbit. Details are thin on the ground, although there …

Chris Lee takes the reigns as 343i confirm no Halo 6 at E3

Disgaea 5 Complete is set to sell over 110,000 units in the US and Europe when it launches on Switch on May 26th, but publisher NIS America has said it needs to work harder to improve the franchise’s standing in the UK. So far, the game has reached 36,000 pre-orders …

The rumours about sky-high fees for entry into the new Overwatch League are unverified and wildly ranging”, Blizzard has said. Reports from the likes of Polygon and Kotaku suggest that Blizzard may be asking as much as $20m for the establishment of a regional franchise to participate in the new …