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A new cut-price offer is being made available to those hoping to get started in the world of Hearthstone. Blizzard’s tremendously successful card battler is free to play, and can certainly be played for free, with players working their way through some early challenges to unlock a basic but decent …

Final update to Marmalade Game Platform scheduled for March 2017

US PlayStation VR buyers will have far more to sink their teeth into when they get home than their European counterparts. It was revealed last week that the UK version of PSVR will come with eight game demos in the box. In the US, however, the bundled disc will include …

The much-touted HDR technology will be rolled out to all existing PS4s today. HDR has overnight become one of the big buzzwords of the industry, and was one of the main features with which Microsoft chose to push the Xbox One S. A lot of time was also spent bigging …

Recruitment expert Amiqus consults devs and media about the most efficient audio middleware on the market

Customers who have obtained a game by redeeming a key as opposed to buying directly through Steam will no longer be able to attribute a score to their reviews. The move is designed to quash the danger of developers artificially inflating their review scores by handing out keys to players …

CryEngine firm optimistic about new incremental console cycle

The Call of Duty World League Championship was officially the most watched Call of Duty eSports event ever. According to Activision the worldwide peak concurrent viewership for the CWL final beat the previous record by more than 40%, with more than 20 million views across all the weekend’s eSports activities. …

But overall number will be higher as troubled German studio concludes voluntary redundancy program

It is the PC, and not the Xbox Scorpio, that’s at the heart of Sony’s decision to abandon the traditional console lifecycle with the generation refreshing PS4 Pro. I saw some data that really influenced me. It suggested that there’s a dip mid-console lifecycle where the players who want the …