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Are people holding out for the release of the Xbox One S and Xbox Scorpio? Quite possibly. Microsoft’s latest financials reveal that Xbox hardware revenue sales are down 33 per cent year-on-year for the three months ending June. There are lots of factors to consider here. For one, the discontinuation …

20 10th- and 11th-grade students will be taught to program in Scratch and Python, as well as learning AI and UX design

The Video Games Tax Relief has seen almost 46m paid to UK studios over the last two years, HMRC has said. Just 500,000 were paid to studios during the 2014 – 2015 tax year. However, in the 2015 – 2016 tax year, there was 130 claimants, who together received 45.4m …

Rise of the Tomb Raider on PS4 will feature a PlayStation VR chapter allowing players to explore Croft Manor

Company working across games, film and TV acquired virtual reality developer Digital Funk Machine in June

An extreme skier has died in an avalanche while filming a promo for Ubisoft’s in-development sports title Steep. The Guardian reports that Swede Matilda Rapaport, who was 30 years old, was involved in the accident outside the resort town of Farellones near Chile’s capital Santiago. "We are deeply saddened to …

Customisable page showcasing a title costs nothing in addition to five per cent cut from completed sales

Country overtakes Sweden as region where devs feel highest quality titles are made, with 27 per cent of community predicting UK will still be the top place for development in five years’ time

Batman: The Telltale Series will be out in just a couple of weeks. Telltale has given the game a digital release date of August 2nd on PC, PSN, Xbox Live, iOS and Google Play. The retail release will then follow on September 16th in Europe, following its September 13th release …

The Witcher 3 has sold nearly 10m copies and launched on PC without any in-built anti-piracy measures. Which should tell you something, Marcin Iwinski argues. Kotaku reports that the co-founder of developer CD Projekt and retailer GOG told an audience at InfoShare 2016 last month that winning favour with pirates …