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Fallen browser gaming giant Facebook wants back into the gaming market. For a brief period Facebook’s casual gaming aspirations looked to be a new dawn for mass-market gaming, but the shift to mobile and an increased emphasis on casual, bite-sized gaming in the traditional market eroded the social network’s impact. …

Partnership between engine firm and social network will make it easier for devs to release games on Facebook

Think you’ve got a great idea for a tech toy, gadget or application? We are looking for inventors to pitch their creations at Toy Inventors Workshop, taking place at Whittlebury Hall on September 20th 2016. The Workshop will bring together leading inventors, distributors and retailers to discover new ideas and …

Indie title Below is now without a release date. The game was revealed way back in 2013 as part of Microsoft’s E3 2013 Xbox One showcase. However, developer Capy has now said that it doesn’t have a planned release date and now plans to retreat from the limelight to get …

October will kick off Ubisoft’s commercial entry into the virtual reality market. Ubisoft Montreal’s Eagle Flight, which as the name suggests allows players to soar like an eagle (over Paris) will debut on Oculus Rift on October 18th. A PlayStation VR version will follow on November 8th, while an HTC …

We catch up with Studio Wildcard co-founder Jeremy Stieglitz to find out how the developer and its popular dino-centric survival game have changed over the past 12 months

A collaboration between Night School Games, Telltale Games and NBC has produced a new game based on the hit US TV show Mr Robot. Mr Robot:1.51 exfiltratiOn is described as a narrative experience” for iOS and Android that sees players using a fictional E Corp Messaging App to take part …

Nozon and Chaos Group on its ambitious new virtual reality technology

Intel’s run of almost uninterrupted reign at the top of the PC processor market could be in for a serious challenge. After years languishing at the budget end of the sector with its multicore FX CPU lineup, Engadget reports that AMD has lifted the lid on its long-awaited next generation …

Xbox One and PS4 will be the last of their kind, Xbox’s US marketing boss Aaron Greenberg has predicted. Next year’s arrival of the iterative Xbox Scorpio and PS4 Neo upgrades – as well as Microsoft’s growing unification of the Xbox and Windows space – all point to a shift …