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The lead writer for Gearbox’s recently-released shooter Battleborn has left the studio. Aaron Linde joined Gearbox in late 2013, having previously worked as a narrative design consultant on Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor with Monolith. Gonna be hauling back up to the pacific northwest in a week or so for an …

Aaron Linde previously worked on Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Gears of War 3

The UK launch day for Hello Games’ ambitious sci-fi title No Man’s Sky has been pushed forward two days. The title will now be launching simultaneously in the UK and Europe on August 10th. This was announced by the PlayStation UK official Twitter account (below). This followed a delay that …

Developers didn’t expect NPCs to create super weapons

Motive Studios and Visceral Games GM Jade Raymond has assured fans that work continues on EA’s mystery Star Wars game. The team at Visceral Games is forging ahead into an exciting phase of development,” Raymond stated. Seeing Amy Hennig lead this team through the creative process has been incredible. She …

Indie effort inspired by canned Konami horror game halted its Kickstarter campaign in October after securing backing from Team 17

Survival horror title Allison Road has been cancelled. Developer Lillith announced the cancellation on Twitter, saying that a statement would be coming in the next few days. The title was due to be published by indie label Team17. Initially the title was being crowdfunded on Kickstarter, raising 145,959 of its …

Upcoming strategy card game Faeria will have monthly tournaments where the best players will compete for a share of $3,000. Despite only being in early access developer Abrakam is already starting up a regular eSports scene with the new tournaments. Each month 32 players will compete for the $3,000 prize, …

The third season of the ESL Pro League saw a peak year-on-year growth of over 44% for online content consumed, making it the most successful cycle to date for the competition. Viewership for the season broke records once again with more than 61 million online sessions throughout the nine week …

Paper Toss developer Backflip and UK studio Space Ape have released a new game based on Hasbro’s lucrative Transformers IP. Transformers: Earth Wars follows the Clash of Clans formula but injects a big dose of Autobots and Decepticons. A host of familiar faces feature, including Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave, …