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Six games will be showcased in the ‘VR, why just be part of the audience?’ display at the Nexon Computer Museum, with first-place winners also invited for workshops in South Korea

It’s been a huge commercial success, but from the off Star Wars Battlefront has been criticised for its lack of a meaningful single player mode. Now Eurogamer reports that EA Studios boss Patrick Soderlund has admitted in an investor broadcast that DICE opted against developing a single player campaign in …

‘We intend to continue to regularly select what we consider to be the most and most polished mods from among the many thousands available on Steam Workshop,’ says lead designer Jeremy Stieglitz

It appears that not one, not two, but three Tetris movies are coming the cinemas in the near future. Deadline reports that the entry in this apparent series is going to cost $80m and is a co China-US production under Threshold Global Studios (Chinese media entrepreneur Bruno Wu and Mortal …

Hoechsmann brothers releasing their first title this summer

Keita Takahashi, the developer behind cult PlayStation title Katamari Damacy, is working on an augmented reality title. Takahashi is working alongside the rest of his team at studio Funomena on a new game built around Google’s augmented reality technology Project Tango. It’s called Woorld (with two ‘o’s) and is said …

Woorld said to ‘mix digital and physical play’ by utilising the camera on a compatible mobile device

Success may be more attainable than you think, says Pollen VC’s Martin Macmillan

Cutesy platformer for PS4, Xbox One and PC announced at E3 2015 and released earlier this year

The next project from Unravel developer Coldwood Interactive is going to be launching courtesy of EA. EVP of EA Studios Patrick Sderlund made this announcement on the publishing giant’s website, though was unable to share any details about this next project from the indie studio. Though the firm has not …