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Microsoft’s Gears of War 4 may not be arriving for another six months, but it currently has a bigger ad presence on US TV than games that are just around the corner. VentureBeat reports that data from real-time TV advertising intelligence iSpot.tv show that Microsoft accounted for 24.4 per cent …

Publisher NIS America will no longer be releasing games from Japanese firm Atlus in Europe, MCV can reveal. That’s according to NIS America president and CEO Takuro Yamashita, who said that since Atlus was purchased by Sega it has becoming increasingly difficult to work together. Not only does this mean …

Rock Band 4 owners will have to pay extra if they want to play the game online. Developer Harmonix has confirmed expansion plans for the game in place for later this year, part of which includes synchronous online multiplayer This is just one of the exciting features included as a …

Microsoft owned Minecraft creator Mojang has, without any pre-amble or teases, released a free title on Steam. Crown and Council is described as a casual strategy game of geopolitical drama”. It originates from a game jam and was developed by Mojang’s Henrik Pettersson. It ships with 75 levels, and is …

With Sega doubling-down on its pledge to mobile, Chris Southall – GM for the publisher’s Hardlight studio – tells Matthew Jarvis about bringing two of gaming’s best-known series to smart devices

Epic Games explains why Vulkan API marks a new era for mobile developers

The need for virtual reality devs to get as much bang for your buck out of the limited processing capacity available harks back to the early days of coding. That’s according to Futuretown co-founder and CTO Justin Liebregts, who told Develop: A large portion of the engineering and art issues …

Executive producer Vincent Martel tells us how the developer is targeting compassion from its players

Steve Howse’s Slither.io once again dominated the free UK App Store charts last week. The title has pushed the usual frontrunners down and rose three place to No.1 on iPhone, charting ahead of Disney Crossy Road. Slither.io was also still at the top of the free iPad games charts, again …

Man behind Broken Age and The Walking Dead sounds involved in motorcycle accident