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Owners of a number of Sony Bravia Smart TVs released throughout 2012 will see the in-built YouTube app vanish at the end of the month. 9to5Google reports that a recent change to the YouTube HTTPS encryption API has rendered it incompatible with a number of Bravia models, with owners complaining …

Only 0.18 per cent of Steam users own HTC Vive, 0.10 per cent own Oculus Rift

Germany-based games firm Wooga has been struck by a series of layoffs that see 40 staff dismissed from the company. The layoffs were part of an internal restructure,GamesIndustryreports, chipping away at the mobile firm’s previous headcount of 300 people. Following these job cuts, Wooga will now be formed from three …

New website designed to help devs find employment and new opportunities

A player-facing community team has been installed at No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games. The long-awaited title had a tremendously successful launch but has since been beset by a vocal and at time quite vicious reaction from the community, parts of which feel that the game has failed to live …

Co-founder Oskar Guilbert adds that Life is Strange developer has no plans to open another studio following partnership with Dontnod Eleven

Redundancies partly due to projects failing to meet expectations

Endemol Shine making video games is not entirely new. The firm, famous for Masterchef, Big Brother and a whole lot more, has been making games for a long time. It’s recently developed titles based on Pointless, Mr Bean and even created its own IP, the ninja brawler Black & White …

Auto-renewal, tiers and up to 85 per cent revenue among the offerings for mobile creators

Early Access title Ark: Survival Evolved is currently bearing the brunt of a player backlash after developer Studio Wildcard announced plans for the game’s first premium expansion. The game arrived in Early Access in June 2015, where it remains. Despite being officially pre-release, however, the developer has in the meantime …