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Nintendo’s new Zelda Breath of the Wild is being made with the help of Xenoblade Chronicles X studio Monolith Soft. That’s according to Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto who, speaking to Game Informer, said that over 100 people are helping make the new Zelda title for Wii U and NX. The long-awaited …

Upcoming space sim No man’s Sky has avoided the need to change its name. Hello Games boss Sean Murray has revealed that the studio has settled a three-year legal dispute with BskyB, which felt it had ownership of the term ‘Sky’. Indeed, so protective is it of the word the …

Vacancies include narrative director, animation and rendering programmers, and character and technical artists

Xenoblade Chronicles developer assisting with building the game’s open world

Robin Kreibich’s subscription-based mod adds cheats including an aimbot, triggerbot, radars and controls designed to avoid detection

Bethesda’s new Doom has ended Overwatch’s three-weeks at the top of the UK charts. The title saw a 57 per cent rise in sales due to a reduction in price that saw retailers selling the game for 30. It shot to first place from third. This is the first time …

‘Sometime things pan out differently than expected as game development and publishing have so many layers of complexity,’ say both studio and publisher on demise of PT-inspired horror project

Broadcaster Sky allows UK developer to keep sci-fi game's title

OG, Team Liquid, Newbee, LGD Gaming, MVP Phoenix and Natus Vincere have all received direct invitations to The International 6, the biggest Dota 2 event of the year. The teams have been invited after competing at the top level over the past few months, and keeping team rosters unchanged after …

The International e-Sports Federation (IeSF) has announced that it is working on an eSports athlete’s commission, in an attempt to get eSports to the Olympics in the future. The commission will aim to give players a say when building international competitive rule sets and generally allow for more standardisation across …