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Jeremy Lin, point guard for NBA team the Brooklyn Nets and known Dota fan, has endorsed the new ViCi Gaming J Dota 2 team. Lin signed an agreement with China Digital Group and ViCi Gaming to create the new team, which will feature Lin as the team’s honorary captain. The …

Former Jagex boss Mark Gerhard explains how his new studio is going to advance a troubled but technologically promising market

Remastered versions of the first two Dark Souls games could be on the cards. From Software boss and Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki has suggested to Polygon that while Dark Souls is finished for now, future projects could be possible, although these are most likely to be ‘HD remakes’ of …

PS4 Pro’s 4.2 teraflops of processing power is not enough to run true” 4K, Microsoft said. I think there are a lot of caveats they’re giving customers right now around 4K,” Microsoft’s Albert Penello told Eurogamer. They’re talking about checkerboard rendering and up-scaling and things like that. There are just …

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Wasteland 2 developer will be offering assets from previously released and upcoming games

Last week, MCV revealed that 40 per cent of French, British, German and Spanish players felt that in-game purchases harmed the enjoyment of video games – versus just 13 per cent who disagreed (the rest either had no opinion or didn’t know). For the UK, the criticism is more pronounced …

After that anger that greeted its recent changes, Valve has further tweaked Steam’s user review system. It was announced last week that buyers who purchase a game outside of Steam would no longer have their review scores contribute to a game’s overall store average. This was designed to curb the …

Engine firm’s virtual reality educational initiative now partners with 26 academic institutes

The UK games industry can be contrary at the best of times and right now, in the face of Brexit uncertainty, it’s contradicting even the most optimistic of analysts. The vote to leave the EU saw some countries threaten to pull support from Britain. It saw the pound plunge, share …