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Developer Guerrilla Games has spoken of its enthusiasm about moving away from the Killzone franchise after more than a decade. "It’s really exciting," studio manager Hermen Hulst told Game Informer, as reported by GameSpot. "It is fantastic when you’ve worked on a franchise for more than a decade – actually, …

Banned Runescape players are to have their indignity heightened by watching their in game loot snapped up by other players. Rock Paper Shotgun reports that the game is to auction off the in-game items associated with characters owned by banned players in ‘Storage Wars’ style blind auctions. Called ‘Bank Bidders’ …

Kiss’ Darryl Still discusses how to manage expectations for a new IP

It appears that some iPhone 7s are hissing at their owners. ArsTechnica reports that a handful of owners, some of which are quite high profile, have reported a hissing noise coming from the their smartphone. The sound seems to emanate from behind the Apple logo, which is roughly where the …

SuperData director of research and head of VR/AR strategy Stephanie Llamas takes a look at why companies in the region have embraced the nascent medium

Funding from Goldfinch Entertainment will be used to launch three new IP

Death Stranding, the first game from the new Kojima Productions, could be out in 2018. That’s if Hideo Kojima’s hints are accurate, and his development schedules uncharacteristically tight. IGN reports that Kojima said at the Tokyo Game Show not only that the game would be out before the 2020 Tokyo …

Dimensional Imaging’s Colin Urquhart discusses the impact video games are having on the world of mo-cap

The 4K war of words has intensified with a vow from Microsoft that first party Xbox Scorpio titles will support native 4K visuals. Both Xbox Scorpio and PS4 Neo will offer 4K visuals, but that does not necessarily mean that the games will be generating a 4K image – in …

Survios is the first developer to have a virtual reality title that generates $1m within one month. The firm revealed this success during an interview withFast Company, spotted byGamaSutra. Its sci-fi shooter Raw Data is already the first VR title to reach No.1 in the overall Steam charts, albeit briefly. …