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The figure comes from Microsoft's recent earnings call and takes in to account Xbox One, Mobile and Windows 10 users
Read More »Microsoft has 53 milllion monthly active users across its gaming platforms
Amazon Games Studio’s Breakaway put on hold
Feedback from the public alpha test will lead to the team taking time to "iterate and evolve" core gameplay
Read More »Digital Extremes puts The Amazing Eternals on the shelf
All staff are safe and will be redeployed to work on Warframe and refunds will be issued
Read More »Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus – What’s Old is New
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is the latest in a twenty five year old franchise which has watched countless other FPS IPs rise and fall over the years. Jem Alexander talks to Arcade Berg, senior game designer at MachineGames to find out how shooter design is evolving
Read More »Resident Evil 7 doubled the amount of time gamers spent in PSVR
Nearly 10 million games for the Sony VR headset have been sold over the last year
Read More »UK Government responds to loot box petition and is monitoring convergence between gambling and video games
Following a petition for the government to address the legality of in-game loot boxes reaching over 10,000 signatures, the DCMS replies
Read More »Board game specialist Fantasy Flight Games launches development studio
Fantasy Flight Games has announced plans to enter the video games market. The company has previously produced board games based on IP such as XCOM, Game of Thrones, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings and Arkham Horror. Now it has launched a video game development studio called Fantasy Flight …
Read More »Recruiter Hot Seat: nDreams
Tamsin O’Luanaigh, talent director at developer nDreams gives us a look in to the VR studio and the perks on offer, including ‘Bacon Mondays’ and ‘Beer Fridays’ – that sounds nice to us!
Read More »GameMaker Studio 2 adds UWP support with new Microsoft partnership
The popular 2D engine will now give access to the Xbox Live Creators Program and allow indie developers to publish games directly to Xbox and windows
Read More »BAFTA celebrates indie success with Breakthrough Brits 2017
A judging panel, including Brenda Romero, Harvey Elliott and Dave Ranyard, selects 5 newcomers from the world of games for the BAFTA honour
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