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Having examined 12 months worth of gameplay for every employee, League of Legends developer Riot discovered "a correlation between in-game and in-Riot toxicity". Writing for GoogleRe:work, the studio said: The Riot team hypothesised there’d be a correlation between highly toxic in-game play and workplace toxicity; if a Rioter received lots …

Every year when we sit down with E3 organisers the ESA, we generally end up chatting about the same topics. ‘What can we expect from the show?’, ‘What’s different this year?’, ‘How much space is being dedicated to mobile/VR/AR/the next big thing?’. But this year, there’s actually quite a lot …

Nintendo’s UK general manager Simon Kemp is leaving the company. Kemp replaced David Yarnton as the UK boss in 2012. He will be temporarily replaced by Stephan Bole, who is senior managing director for European subsidiaries. Nintendo is seeking a permanent replacement for Kemp. Nintendo of Europe told MCV that …

1995 was an iconic year for video games. It was the year of the first PlayStation, the Sega Saturn… the Virtual Boy. It was also the year of Donkey Kong Country, Yoshi’s Island, Command and Conquer and Worms. And it was the year of the very first Electronics Entertainment Expo. …

Sony has admitted that that PlayStation Neo is real, but has also confirmed that there will not be any details announced at E3 next week. It is intended to sit alongside and complement the standard PS4,” Sony Interactive president Andrew House told The Financial Times. We will be selling both …

ILogos CEO Elena Lobova discusses the advantages of working on branded titles

Publishing giant EA is giving away $1m to five different charities, one of which is the UK’s very own SpecialEffect. This donation comes as part of the firm’s Play to Give programme. HeForShe, Code.org, National Center for Women and Information Technology, Code2040 and SpecialEffect will be sharing the $1m figure. …

Apple’s announcement that it is to allow app subscriptions on the iOS App Store is nothing more than a ‘gesture’. The streaming music service remains critical of both the size of the slice Apple claims from App Store payments, and the inflexibility of Apple’s pricing model. "It’s a nice gesture, …

Back in 2012, Supermassive Games released its ambitious Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock. Working with the BBC, the Guildford-based studio had pitched a multi-part adventure for PlayStation consoles. It was to star Matt Smith in the title role and was being created, lovingly, by real fanatics of the sci-fi TV …

Former Sony London Studios VR developer Dave Ranyard discusses how virtual reality could see the worlds of film and video games unite. For years now we have seen games and movies do a merry dance together but never really meet up. Sure there have been games made of movies and …