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Major updates and changes coming to systems and mechanics across the game.
Read More »Bungie outlines Destiny 2 development plans for early 2018 in bid to increase transparency
Spanish government injecting €6.25m into games industry in reaction to worrying White Paper
Focus on funding small developers in an aim to prevent development studio extinction event in the region.
Read More »Perforce Software acquired by Clearlake Capital
Private equity firm anticipates minimal disruption to business, keeping current leadership in place.
Read More »Video games crowdfunding estimated to bring in $25m in 2017
Figures from Ico Partners have shown that the video games crowdfunding market has dipped by less than two per cent in 2017. Ico’s chief Thomas Bidaux has said that the firms estimates point to around $25m being raised by video game crowdfunding in 2018 in a piece for PCGamesInsider.biz, with …
Read More »NSPCC and Aardman team up for game aiming to combat child abuse
Playtime with Pantosaurus, features four minigames to help protect kids
Read More »Battalion 1944 coming to Steam Early Access on February 1
Classic multiplayer FPS gets ready to do the pew pew
Read More »EA’s Dynamic Difficulty patent is not a radical idea – but it must be used carefully
An EA patent has been uncovered detailing research into adjusting multiplayer matchmaking in order to retain players and boost engagement. The snappily titled Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment for Maximized Engagement in Digital Games debates an idea that is pretty much as described by the title. The abstract for Dynamic difficulty adjustment …
Read More »Jade Raymond joins AIAS board of directors
Raymond joins governing body for video games trade organisation
Read More »Indian publisher Nazara acquires majority stake in Nextwave Multimedia
Rise of the VRCade
Read More »Steam hits 18.5m concurrent users
More people logged in than the population of Chile
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