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Chinese gaming giant Tencent has spent around 14.3m to acquire a five per cent share of Paradox Interactive. The deal values the company at approximately 286m. Paradox CEO Fredrik Wester stays on as a key shareholder with a 33.3 per cent share of the company. Investment firm Splitan owns 30.5 …

Creative Assembly’s latest strategy release has broken a Total War sales record. Total War: Warhammer, published by Sega, has since its release earlier this week racked up sales of over half a million units, making it the fastest ever selling title in the franchise. Total War: Warhammer has already proven …

Square Enix’s take on the Minecraft series Dragon Quest Builders is set for a Western release. In a post on the PlayStation blog, Square Enix community manager Dan Seto says that Builders is coming to both PlayStation 4 and Vita in October. The PS4 SKU is getting both a boxed …

Developer Big Ant Studios has revealed a new entry in its popular cricket series, which is set for a December release. Don Bradman Cricket 17 is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. The studio says that this title will feature a new lighting system, as well as photo-realistic …

The idea of a PC specifically designed to be lugged about on your back may seem a bit daft, but when paired with VR the notion suddenly starts to make more sense. MSI has announced the Backpack PC. The idea is that it will allow gamers to tether their VR …

Disney Infinity 3.0. Crackdown 3. LittleBigPlanet 3. Forza Horizon 2. F1 2011. Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. Dead Island 2. Xbox Fitness. Dead Space Ignition. And that’s not even the half of it. That’s as diverse a line-up as you’re ever likely to see, and it all comes from one …

Ubisoft’s racing outing The Crew continues to expand its audience, even well over a year after its release. The game has now hit 5m registered players (which is not quite the same as sales). The publisher has said that everyone who logs in on May 28th will be handed 50,000 …

Spanish event moves venue to Barcelona’s Hesperia Tower Hotel

Precision Position Tracking system will support up to 10 users in a 50x50m space, and is compatible with any Unreal Engine 4 or Unity 5 device

Troubled MMO developer Funcom has been bailed out of negative equity by an injection of investment money. The LEGO Minifigures Online, Age of Conan and The Secret World creator had previously been sat at –$10m, which has now been reversed to +$4m thanks to $6.3m in private placement investment. The …