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Wegnez replaces Simon Kemp,Yogscast community manager joins Sold Out and video producer leaves GameSpot. Nintendo hires new UK general manager The platform holder’s UK general manager Simon Kemp has left the firm. He had joined Nintendo in 2012 to replace David Yarnton, having previously worked for the likes of GSK …

Other additions include a new depth of field technique, height mapped ambient occlusion and iOS performance improved by 15 per cent

The producer of the upcoming Tetris movie has explained why it is the first part in a trilogy. Speaking to film publication Empire, Larry Kasanoff said that the story they have in mind for the film is ‘so big’ that they need three films to cover it. In May, it …

Danish indie shuttered alongside Lionhead working on PC construction title Pioneers

Mojang has revealed that the Minecraft film is launching in just under three years. In a post on the developer’s website, COO Vu Bui announced that the film will be hitting the silver screen on May 24th, 2019. Furthermore, the flick will be coming out in 3D and Imax, too. …

Warner Bros’ Batman: Return to Arkham HD collection will not be hitting its July release date. In a post on the publisher’s community forum, a member of Warner Bros staff, Steve Grayson, announced that the title had been delayed indefinitely. The reason for this is apparently to give Virtuous Games …

Key-reseller marketplace G2A has revealed some improvements to its offering to keep game companies happy. The firm has announced that studios and publishers can now make money from third-party auctions. One of the criticisms levelled at G2A by publishers was that they didn’t see a penny from some sales of …

PlayStation surprised us this year. If you had asked us what we would have expected ahead of their pre-E3 press conference, we would have suggested a hardware-centric show, featuring PlayStation VR and the firm’s new ‘Neo’ console. We would have put our money on the traditional sizzle reel of inventive …

One of the key differences between PlayStation and Xbox is how they operate on a worldwide level. Whereas Xbox takes a more global approach to its marketing and content acquisition, PlayStation adopts a more local strategy. Sony develops marketing campaigns for each territory, and it’s not unusual for Europe to …

At the start of June, popular video games show VGN was dropped by broadcaster Challenge and production firm Ginx. Just ten days later, Ginx announced it was launching a 24-hour eSports channel with Sky and ITV. We had been reviewing our programming output for some time,” Ginx CEO Michiel Bakker …