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It was after just 50k. Now the creators of Dark Souls: The Board Game have seen their funding pass the 3.5m mark as the venture reaches the final few hours of its Kickstarter. Funding currently stands at 3,564,906 with four hours to go. And that total is raising every minute, …

Mario and Link could be making their way to a big screen near you as early as 2018. Nintendo Life reports that Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima has said in a Japanese interview that while the company is still at an early stage in the process, and that no plans have …

Small Impact Games talk us through their medieval survival title

It’s sometimes easy to forget that Oculus, Gear VR, Vive and PlayStation VR are far from the only players in the virtual reality headset market. Starbreeze announced the StarVR back at E3. Now it has revealed that Acer is its manufacturing partner. The pair will cooperate on the design, manufacturing, …

Collaboration will see games firm and PC manufacturer work together on design, manufacturing, promotion, sales and more of virtual reality hardware to professional and location-based sectors

Jason Green to focus on Brighton dev’s mobile titles

Campaign from System Shock: Enhanced Edition co-creator Night Dive Studios to launch at end of June with an as-yet unspecified target

Chilli team adds economy management following beta phase

The majority stake holder in Clash of Clans and Clash Royale creator Supercell is said to be weighing up the possibility of selling the mobile powerhouse. Bloombergreports that SoftBank has held talks with potential strategic buyers based in China” to sell its stake, although the talks were said to be …

Developer valued at more than $5 billion by majority shareholder SoftBank