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Etemad and Jago join Microsoft, Sumo hires Lionhead art director and KamaGames opens a UK office. Microsoftstrengthens Xbox comms team The Xbox UK communications team has two new members. Roxana Etemad has been appointed as communications manager, reporting to head of communications for devices Paul Almond. Etemad spent five years …

Michel Guillemot teaming up with brother Yves to protect Assassin's Creed publsiher

Those who decide to cheat at Overwatch can expect the very harshest retaliation from developer Blizzard. In an age where PC players of titles like Dark Souls 3 and The Division have to endure some quite serious hacking among the online community, Blizzard says it is determined to make sure …

Paradox Interactive says 2016 was a record-breaker following the smash sales of PC hits Cities: Skylines and Stellaris. Sim title Cities: Skylines sold over 2m copies since it debuted in March 2015, while newly released space strategy title Stellaris shifted 200,000 units in just one day. The past 12 months …

The Immortals organisation has signed the Tempo Storm CS:GO team, marking its first venture outside of League of Legends. Immortals was first formed late last year, and fielded a League of Legends team in the North American LCS during the Spring Split. Now, just before its LoL team is due …

Recruitment expert will be among hundreds of firms attending this year's ceremony in July

An Assassin’s Creed film is launching at the end of this year, but it seems another Ubisoft property is getting the silver screen treatment. Variety reports that The Division is coming to cinemas, with Donnie Darko lead Jake Gyllenhaal said to be taking the lead the title. This won’t be …

Developer Dream Games says it has parted company with both its MD and editor after the studio directed an online anti-LGBT at a fan. Kotaku reports that following an offer of free keys for shooter Operation Caucasus, the studio refused one request from a gamer whose profile picture had a …

This week, we talked to Ready at Dawn’s president Ru Weerasuriya about new title Deformers and the studio’s partnership with GameStop’s publishing arm. We also had a chat with Debbie Betswick, Jenny Richard-Stewart, Jo Twist and Pauline Jacquey about how the games industry can help improve its diversity problem. Elsewhere, …

The team behind The Order: 1886 has unveiled its next project, and it will be published by GameStop. The retailer’s publishing arm GameTrust will co-publish Deformers with developer Ready at Dawn. The studio says that it will handle the project’s development, while GameStop will manage distribution and marketing. The studio …