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More than 100 staff at PC giant Valve are working on augmented and virtual reality. That’s according to a Reddit AMA (ask me anything) – as reported by Kotaku – with Valve employee Alan Yates, who said that one third of the company is dedicated to its AR and VR …

‘I can't imagine working on something of more significance right now,’ says firm’s Alan Yates on importance of headsets such as the Vive

Media giant Vivendi has increased the amount of stock it holds in games publisher Ubisoft. The firm announced via its corporate website that it now owns 20.1 per cent of Ubisoft shares. Vivendi also holds 17.76 per cent of Ubisoft voting rights. Furthermore, the firm has said it is not …

Paradox has been around since 1999 but it’s only recently that the Swedish firm has reached mainstream attention. Its stock has risen so much that Chinese games giant Tencent recently took a five per cent stake in the firm for 286m. In March 2015, Paradox released Cities: Skylines, a title …

‘It's very important to keep [accessibility] in mind and have a solution,’ says Armature game director Mark Pacini

It’s better than nothing”. That’s the assessment of Keiji Inafune following the damning critical reception of his new platformer Mighty No.9. The reviews for the game have not been kind, with the title currently carrying a Metacritic rating of 60 per cent. There has also been some frustration about the …

As the countdown begins to this year's event, we run through the hopeful studios and the games that could earn them our coveted awards

‘Dawnwalker’ proposed as name for Japanese outlet, following founding of Mistwalker in 2004

Two of the directors of Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega Plus firm Retro Computers have resigned. Chris Smith (pictured far right) and Paul Andrews (pictured right) have stepped down from the firm due to ‘irreconcilable differences’ between them and the last remaining director, David Levy. A statement released on Smith and …

Indie developer TinyBuild has revealed that it lost nearly half a million dollars in sales for its games to key selling website G2A. Detailing the Punch Club, SpeedRunners and Party Hard creator’s dealings with the grey code marketplace on itsblog, TinyBuild’s Alex Nichiporchik posted figures based on numbers released by …