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Assassin’s Creed, Watch Dogs and The Division developer-publisher Ubisoft is bulking up its defences in an attempt to remain independent. The games giant has been fending off a hostile takeover from Vivendi, which hasintensified in the last 12 monthsas the aggressive conglomeratehas repeatedly upped its stake in both Ubisoft and …

Rez isn’t the only Sega classic in line for the virtual reality treatment. Polygon reports that Sega and mobile games company KDDI have announced plans to showcase Space Channel 5 VR at the Tokyo Game Show. Sadly, this doesn’t appear to be a full port of the 1999 cult classic. …

Family including publisher’s CEO Yves and former Gameloft head Michel pay $161m for an extra 3.5 per cent

Five campus vists planned between September and November

Member of studio’s QA team apologises after accusing critic of being ‘too cheap to pony up 20 dollars for a game worth 60’

Bulgarian start-up working with Valve to free headset from its cables

Well this is embarrassing. Warner Bros, like most major rights holders, employs people to scour the internet in search of those illegally hosting its copyrighted material. However, current partner Vobile appears to have been a little too thorough with its approach to the problem. TorrentFreak reports that included among a …

Studio previously announced that it would ‘drastically’ overhaul its development tools for sci-fi title ‘far, far bigger’ than fantasy RPG

Sales of virtual reality hardware has almost ground to a halt, according to a new survey. The study, spotted byVentureBeat, shows the number of Steam users that acquired a HTC Vive only grew 0.3 per cent in July and was flat in August. Similarly, growth from Oculus Rift’s Steam userbase …

‘What matters now, as always, is what we do rather than what we say’