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It appears that Ubisoft’s follow-up to its hacking blockbuster Watch Dogs will be coming out this year. That’s if a leak from IGN to be believed. Advertising on the media giant went up early, revealing an November 15th release date for Watch Dogs 2 (courtesy of Eurogamer, below). This is …

The lead writer behind BioWare's Dragon Age discusses how he crafts fantasy worlds

The latest entry in Atlus’ cult JRPG Persona series will be hitting American shelves at the start of 2017. Publisher Atlus has revealed that Persona 5 will be launching for PS4 and PS3 on February 14th, 2017. Not only that – the firm has announced a special edition, which is …

Former Lionhead, Creative Assembly and Sony devs join Until Dawn studio

Nine new brands will be added to the LEGO Dimensions roster at E3, one report has claimed. Press Start reckons it has the jump on the announcement, claiming that the additions will be headlined by cult games IP Sonic the Hedgehog and current Cartoon Network hit Adventure Time. Also on …

Kopla Games’ clicker-meets-dungeon-crawler tops 2m downloads

Addition to Runescape Old School celebrates ‘Falador Massacre’, when scores of players in ‘safe’ zones were accidentally able to be killed

The UK’s only regular TV video games show, Videogame Nation, has been cancelled after its fourth series. The decision was described by co-host Dan Maher as sudden” in a Facebook post, where he added: Challenge TV decided not to renew the show in order to focus exclusively on gameshow content. …

Indie dev and Giftgaming CEO Nick Hatter discusses how service providers can make life easier for games makers

The creators of XCOM 2, The Binding of Isaac, Enter the Gungeon and The Swindle reveal how procedural generation and random gameplay elements can be used to build timeless titles