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Sega has announced not one but two new Sonic games for release in 2017. The first is Sonic Mania, a title that resembles the original 2D pixel art releases that kickstartered the franchise. Though the game comes with entirely new levels and characters, it also features ‘classic’ gameplay as well …

French company Emtec wants to succeed where nearly everybody else has failed. On August 18th, the firm will launch Gem Box in the US, UK and France, before releasing in other European territories later this year. This Android micro-console, which comes with its own controller, gives access to a large …

Christopher Schmitz leaves Parisian studio behind Heavy Rain after a year and a half to take on role of executive producer

There were a few reasons for thinking that the Kickstarter campaign for Fable Fortune would do pretty well. For one, the free-to-play card game was associated with an iconic brand, Fable, and was being made by former Lionhead developers who, since the studio’s closure, have formed Flaming Fowl. Historically, this …

CEO Simon Gardner tells us why the studio behind Assassin’s Creed Chronicles is focusing solely on virtual and augmented reality

The Xbox One has had yet another price cut in the US. All bundles including the entry-level 500GB machine now cost just $249 in the US. This includes bundles featuring Gears of War: Ultimate Edition and the white Quantum Break SKU. Microsoft first shaved some off the price of the …

Generation Media account executive Joe Phelan looks at the decline in games marketing so far this year and finds out in which sectors TV ads are concentrated. Following E3, many will be looking forward to the end of the year, but we have decided to look back on 2016 so …

LittleBigPlanet studio Media Molecule recognized with YGD Hero Award, while Cambridge Regional College head of game development and Rizing Games creator Michael Warburton was honoured as YGD Mentor

‘At the end of the day, this is for the players, isn't it?’ says CEO Marcin Iwi?ski

Overwatch was the best-selling title at UK games retail last month. But June was severely down compared with the year before, with just 1.2m games sold – a drop of 33 per cent. 34m was generated through software sales, a huge decline of 40 per cent year-on-year. June 2015 was …