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Former Vivendi COO Stphane Roussel has been named CEO of Gameloft during its shareholders’ meeting yesterday. In addition to Roussel, four new members also entered the Gameloft board of directors: Sbastien Bollor (chairman of Omnium Bollor, director and chairman of Blue Solutions USA), Frdric Crpin (member of the Vivendi management …

Collaboration between 30 major players in space, including HTC and Unity, will accept pitches six times a year

Media firm Future is launching three new kids magazines – and two of them are video game related. Minecraft Mayhem, Your Gaming Heroes and Your Comic Heroes are aimed at kids aged between six and 12, and will come out every three weeks. Editor Daniella Lucas, who heralds from Gamesradar.com, …

The long-rumoured HD BioShock compilation has resurfaced once again, this time on publisher 2K’s website. A logo, cover art as well as screens for HD versions of BioShock and BioShock Infinite were spotted and recorded by AllGamesDeltabefore they were promptly removed from 2K’s site. These pics give an indication of …

Political party also proposes revival of short-lived Australian Interactive Games Fund and $5m funding for creative working spaces

Rovio Stockholm founder Oskar Burman, senior development director of Frostbite Labs Kristoffer Benjaminsson and Mirror’s Edge Catalyst design director Erik Odeldahl behind venture

A new entry in Koei Tecmo’s Ninja Gaiden franchise is coming up, but fans hoping for a new game may be disappointed. Composer Keiji Yamagishi announced earlier this week on Twitter that he was working on a new project related to Ninja Gaiden.” I’ll be able to share more news …

A Final Fantasy–themed Monopoly will be coming out next year. The board game will launch exactly 20 years after the release of Final Fantasy VII on PSOne, on April 14th 2017. It’s already available to pre-order, and is being releasedexclusively on merchandise website Merchoid. The board game will set consumers …

Nintendo’s famed designer Shigeru Miyamoto has shed some light on why its new console was not shown at E3 2016. Speaking to investors, Miyamoto said – as translated by Twitter user Cheesemeister3K (below) – that the firm was worried about giving away too much information early for fear of imitators. …

Indie smash hit and critical darling Her Story is coming to Google’s Play Store. Her Story launched on iOS last year, at the same time as the PC version, and has finally reached Android devices today. It is currently on sale, at just 2.69. Sam Barlow’s FMV-driven title has met …