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‘There are tremendous operational challenges to integrating classic servers,’ says exec producer J. Allen Brack following closure of ‘vanilla’ server

The upcoming PC strategy game Phoenix Point will merge the gameplay of the new XCOM titles, with those from the 1990s. That’s the one piece of information that creator Julian Gollop shared with MCV whilst reminiscing about the origins of the series. Gallop was part of the team that created …

‘I believe there are still many foreigners that would like to have a shot at Japanese-style creativity, says president and CEO Hiroshi Matsuyama

Linden Lab’s 3D world supports multiple headsets on PC and mobile, including the HTC Vive and Rift Oculus

It appears that there could be more than one Call of Duty game launching this year. This year’s release in Activision’s shooter franchise could also be called Infinite Warfare. That’s according to a Reddituser– as reported by Videogamer – who spotted a listing for ‘Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare’ on …

More than 10m people worldwide have signed up to Miitomo,Nintendo’s first foray into the mobile games space. This was announced as part of the platform holder’s financial report today – the firm also announced this news via Twitter (below). Nintendo has also revealed that over 300 million conversations have taken …

Internal forecasts for the Wii U in Nintendo’s current financial year point to a possible cancellation for the hardware. Nintendo says it expects to sell just 800,000 units in the 12 months ending March 31st 2017. That compares to sales of 3.2m units for the machine in the financial year …

Hubs in San Francisco, Beijing and Taipei to offer help from experts, investment, mentorship and other support services

As a brand new expansion launches for Hearthstone, Blizzard has revealed that over 50 million people are registered for the free-to-play card game. This was announced by Blizzard CEO and co-founder Mike Morhaime in a blog post on Activision Blizzard’s investor relations portal, and indicates that 20 million people have …

UPDATE: All Uncharted 4 stock sold at CEX and on eBay was the result of a violent assault and theft, PlayStation has said. "We can confirm that unfortunately some contents from a lorry transporting a variety of video game and DVD titles, including a quantity of the much anticipated Uncharted …