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

After being knocked out of the Manila Major and coming joint last, both Team Secret and Evil Geniuses have made roster changes. Team Secret offlaner Saahil UNiVeRsE” Arora has left the team, seemingly heading back to Evil Geniuses, the team he played with at TI5, while EG’s offlaner, Kanishka BuLba” …

Virtual reality is coming to the corporate sector as HTC reveals it is releasing a Business Edition of its Vive headset. This special edition is available from this month in the US, Canada, UK, Germany and France only. The headset will then be released worldwide in the coming weeks”, HTC …

Eidos Montreal's art director discusses how his team have blended different styles to bring something new to the cyberpunk genre

As if there was any doubt about it, Warner Bros is going all out to target parents just as much as it is kids with a wide and assorted range of new brands coming to LEGO Dimensions this year. As revealed earlier this week, Adventure Time, Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts …

The Guillemot family, who founded mobile studio Gameloft, have now sold its remaining share of the company to Vivendi, the Wall Street Journal reports. The newspaper adds that the family took this decision with regret”, after the entertainment giant already took control of 56 per cent of Gameloft last week. …

We try not to feature EA in our E3 MCV edition. Depending on when you’re reading this, EA is either about to announce a load of games, or it already has. To speak to the company before it’s done so, well, it seems a bit pointless. But we’re making an …

Deus Ex will be the next Square Enix property to receive the ‘Go’ treatment. The publisher has announced that the title will be launching on mobile devices this summer. The ‘Go’ games are a sub-series by Square Enix that brings some of the company’s biggest franchises to mobile. The first …

Our fourth episode of The MCV & Develop Podcast casts a critical eye on the upcoming industry showcase that is E3 2016. MCV’s editor Chris Dringjoins Develop editor James Batchelorand MCV’s associate editor Ben Parfitt to debate the relevance of E3 itself, the possible strategies for all three platform holders, …

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