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Sony has revealed three new titles for its upcoming PlayStation VR hardware. This trio of new releases were announced on PlayStation Blog. The first title is Statik from Tarsier Studios – the developer behind LittleBigPlanet for the PlayStation Vita. The firm’s Dave Mervik describes the experience as ‘a VR puzzle-mystery’, …

Voice of Solid Snake and Hollywood screenwriter highlights RPGs, Assassin’s Creed, Red Dead Redemption and Seth MacFarlane as inspirations, and rebuffs suggestion of crowdfunding campaign to finance project

Animation firm expands operations, new branch will focus on pre-production

Promises, promises. Microsoft has in its official statement on May’s NPD stats on the North American games market suggested that its E3 press conference on Monday night will be one not to miss. "In May 2016, gaming hours on Xbox One more than doubled compared to last year, driven by …

QA & localisation specialists sign on as gold partner

Heading to LA next week? Sold Out's George Morgan, Josh Garrity and Sean Labode offer advice on how to fully prepare for those all-important publisher meetings

‘We actually received some essays from employees vowing to change their ways and become not just more considerate gamers but better people,’ studio reveals as outcome of warning troublesome employees

Consumer expo EGX has shrugged off competition from GAMEFest as it unveils Amazon as its new retail partner. Organiser Rupert Loman told MCV that Amazon is the most relevant retail partner possible for the EGX audience.” GAME had previously worked as EGX’s retail support, before it decided to host its …

This year’s event to focus on VR, hardware and user-made content

North African studio comprised of 48 devs worked on Rayman series, plus Child of Light and Valiant Hearts