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Blizzard designer Jeff Kaplan has revealed how the cancellation of MMO Titan has provided huge motivation for the studio. Titan was abandoned in 2014 after seven years in development. CEO Mike Morhaime said simply that the team weren’t able to find the fun” in the title. "You had a really …

Tools firm's Andy Brammall will speak during the event's conference on May 5th

Microsoft is pretty coy about the sales performance of the Xbox One nowadays, but it looks as if the console has grown sales year-on-year. Xbox One hardware unit sales were up year-on-year for the nine months ending March 31st 2016, although hardware revenues were down 26 per cent – a …

Inkle, the interactive fiction specialists behind 80 Days and Sorcery, has released its text engine for free. Co-founder Joseph Humfrey tells Will Freeman what developers can expect from Ink

With just a pair of games under its belt, Disruptor Beam has already worked with two of pop culture’s biggest brands. CEO Jon Radoff discusses moving from Game of Thrones to Star Trek, the benefit of building around verbs and boldly going where no mobile dev has gone before

A number of players claim to have been wrongly banned from the online component of Dark Souls 3. From Software has since the days of the original Dark Souls struggled with policing the series’ community. Historically players who are deemed to have cheated in any way are pooled off into …

There are just four weeks to go until we celebrate the Top 30 Women in Games and the winners of the six special categories are announced. The Women in Games Awards take place on May 19th at the Hamyard Hotel, London. Tickets cost just 49 and are available by simply …

‘Nobody said a word, everyone was super supportive, but I think there was this inward embarrassment,’ designer Jeff Kaplan says of cancelled MMO

PS4 Neo? Check. Nintendo NX? Check. Xbox Two? Maybe. Chip manufacturer AMD has dropped the second hint in as many weeks that all three platform holders are very much gearing up for new hardware launches. Ars Technica reports that in an earnings call the company cited three semi-custom system-on-chip (SOC) …

Support for virtual currency coming soon, with Valve promising it has ‘a system that insulates partners from risk and volatility ‘ in place