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Contest aims to help grow region’s indie scene, devs will retain full rights and revenues from their games

Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney talks about the firm’s efforts to blend the virtual world and reality, how indies can be built into businesses

When Watch Dogs arrived in May 2014, it was the biggest IP launch of all time. From the moment it was unveiled at E3 2012, it had an almost unobtainable level of hype and expectation surrounding it. Ubisoft ended up releasing an excellent action game, but it wasn’t quite enough …

South African studio relocates to Mauritius to work on Genital Jousting and other projects

Mobile developer’s demise due to client exiting games market

Microsoft's OS reaches milestone six months faster than Windows 7

Clash Royale dev embarks on long-term partnership with studio behind the Badland series

The Philadelphia 76ers have acquired controlling stakes in both Team Dignitas and Team Apex and have merged the two organisations together. This new super organisation will function under the Team Dignitas name, and will feature all of the remaining teams currently under contract with both teams. This includes the Apex …

M&S and Nike vet joins online retailer, OXM’s Castle to run Xbox UK’s YouTube channel and a new head of business development at Heaven Media. New EVP of marketing at Green Man Gaming The online retailer has announced the hire of its new marketing boss. Murray Beckett (pictured, right) joins …

Microsoft is celebrating a big milestone for the latest iteration of its world-conquering operating system. Windows 10 is now installed on over 400m systems worldwide. It has hit this number in 14 months. That’s a fair bit quicker than Windows 7, which took over 20 months to reach the same …