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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 …

VR platform holder HTC is making its debut as a games developer with new VR title Front Defence. The title will be shown off at Taiwan’s Computex trade show next week, VentureBeat reports. The title is a tower defence game with players holding out against increasingly difficult waves of enemies. …

Miguel Caron joins Shadowgun developer

‘It is no secret that the company has had a strained financial situation in recent years,’ admits CEO Rui Casais. ‘This investment is a major turning point’

Internal 'Creative' team working on Front Defense, as well as non-game experiences

Only one of the two games included in the PS4 version of Dead Island Definitive Edition will actually come on the retail disc. Deep Silver has confirmed that the PS4 SKU includes a Dead Island disc in the box alongside a code to download its sequel Dead Island: Riptide. This …

Buyout of dev formed by EA and Zynga vets bolsters free-to-play firm’s LA mobile team

More people may own toys-to-life games than ever, but players are spending less on them. That’s according to GfK Entertainment. MCV last week revealed that over 620,000 UK consumers own either a copy of Skylanders Superchargers, LEGO Dimensions or Disney Infinity 3, making it the most successful eight months yet …