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System will debut in upcoming Batman title, with ‘two to 2,000-plus’ players able to share a URL and have audiences vote on in-game decisions

The days of answering a knock at the door to be greeted with the sound of an absent courier screeching off down the street could be nearing an end. Retailer Amazon has been given governmental approval to begin testing delivery drones in the UK as part of its Prime Air …

Online mentorship course will run for six months and teach devs about the business side of game making

Xbox showed off a lot of products during its E3 briefing this year. It announced not one, but two new consoles. It showed off some of its blockbuster first-party line-up, including new entries in the Gears of War and Forza franchises. But for five minutes, an indie game called We …

Creative director Alex Ward details technical features that didn’t make the cut due to compact development team

Bundling platform details machine-learning defence system, SMS verification and key cancellation measures utilised in battle against sham purchases

Batman: The Telltale Series will bring with it the studio’s first stab at adding multiplayer to its successful narrative game design model. Shacknews reports that the game will introduce a new mode called Crowd Play. Although not formally announced as of yet, it was shown off over the weekend at …

Accuracy of Rift headset movement improved as launch of Touch controllers approaches

Three Fields Entertainment has admitted that its recent debut release Dangerous Golf hasn’t yet sold in the numbers it was hoping. The game arrived on PC consoles on PC on June 2nd and very much divided critics. On PS4, for instance, the game has a Metacritic score of 56 per …

PS4 owners will not be required to subscribe to PlayStation Plus if they wish to advantage of No Man’s Sky galaxy-spanning online features. While No Man’s Sky is pretty much a single player experience as you roam around the almost impossibly vast game world, the title does boast a number …