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Yosuke Matsuda explains: ‘It wouldn’t be good for that market to consist entirely of free-to-play’

As the new CEO of Women in Games, Marie-Claire Isaaman hopes to be part of the movement leading to gender equality in the games industry. But actually she has already done her fair share of work to improve diversity, as a researcher and education consultant in games at the Norwich …

Intel Developer Blog: How RealSense helps VR devs track hand movements

Punch Club and SpeedRunners studio hits out at site G2A for ‘facilitating a fraud-fueled economy’ by offering Steam codes often obtained deceitfully

New product will help devs build games with Ink scripting language

Pixyul’s debut title planned to scan real-world environments using drones and implement them in its open world

Champion. God. Undefeatable. Throughout the duration of Smash 4’s lifespan, Gonzalo ZeRo” Barrios has been referred to as all of these and more. With 55 consecutive tournament-win victories, he’s been the game’s top dog for the longest amount of time. Read more on Splyce >>>

17 years ago to the day the first beta of Counter-Strike (CS) was released. What could have just been another mod among many quickly eclipsed the game it was modifying and became a cultural phenomenon in gaming on a scale never before witnessed. Read more on Gamurs >>>

Months after Susan Tully and friends bought a pair of professional video game teams for an estimated $1 million, her four-man Call of Duty” squad finished its season in 11th out of 12 places. A loss in a post-season gunfight would relegate Tully’s H2K squad to the second-tier league. There, …

In the world of Hearthstone, meta doesn’t just refer to the cards and decklists—the emotes have a ranking all of their own. So, as part of our aim to bring you the most crucial Hearthstone coverage on the internet, a few months ago we ranked all the emotes currently in …