Growing comms platform Discord now lets its users join games with their friends more easily. Discord already shows you want games your friends are currently playing. Now a new feature called Rich Presence adds a button that, when pressed, will allow you to either boot the game and join in …
Read More »FIFA and Madden may move away from annual releases says EA CEO
Andrew Wilson, speaking to Bloomberg TV, says a subscription model may replace game releases and follow a similar model to its Chinese and Korean operations
Read More »Respawn Entertainment to be purchased by EA
The Titanfall developer will join the EA family in a deal worth over $300 million
Read More »Two Insomniac engine developers join Unity
Mike Acton and Andreas Frederiksson will be joining the new Burbank office to work on data-oriented programming
Read More »Asura wins game of the year at the NGF Awards in India
Four studios took home Awards and prizes at the event during the NASSCOM Game Developers Conference
Read More »The video game voice actor strike is over
After nearly a year, voice actors in the SAG-AFTRA have ratified an agreement to end a dispute that had forced many of gaming’s most recognisable voices to stay away from the sector. 90 per cent of those who voted agreed to the deal, which grants actors a bonus of up …
Read More »India has grown to be the third biggest country for games – NASSCOM
The data from Unity Analytics opened the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference 2017 showing that in just ten months the popularity of gaming in the country has massively increased
Read More »Vote ends the SAG-AFTRA voice actors strike
The union's members have officially voted to end the strike following the deal outlined in September
Read More »Zynga buys Peak Games rights for $100m as it turns new profits
Following from its first profitable quarter in a long time, Zynga invests by acquiring the Turkish developer's card games
Read More »Interior Night is a new London based studio with a narrative focus
Ex-Sony developers turn indie in an attempt to bring mainstream TV audiences into games
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