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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 …

Top Eleven game designer Mladen Markovic discusses the most effective ways to get your audience engaging with that social functionality you've spent so long designing

PS4 owners’ wait for Rise of the Tomb Raider will soon be over. The current Xbox and PC exclusive will be released on PS4 on October 11th, and will complete with some new virtual reality content for PlayStation VR. Furthermore, developer Crystal Dynamics has promised that the PS4 edition will …

The Epic Games talk devs through its new Sequencer cinematics tool, which is used for many of the company's game trailers

The wait for the Japanese launch of Pokemon Go is going to be a lot shorter than feared, if new reports are correct. TechCrunch reckons that the world-conquering app will actually hit Japan tomorrow (July 20th). The news may make current users nervous about server stability, especially since the game …