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Driveclub dev’s director Mick Hocking to oversee all Codies studios

But creative director Sam Lake insists that studio’s focus remains on “story and storytelling”

Codemasters has stepped in to save recently shut Driveclub developer Evolution Studios. The closure of the Sony studio was announced last month, but now the team is heading over to Codemasters, with Evolution co-founder Mike Hocking being named as Codemasters’ VP of product development, overseeing activity across all Codemasters studios. …

Crazy Craft Mod For Minecraft PC Edition was the No.3 best-selling paid iPhone game in the UK charts during its debut week (week ending April 3rd). It beat another new release, LEGO Jurassic World, which debuted at No.4. The data is couresty of mobile games specialist Reflection. The Minecraft app …

‘The game industry has changed so dramatically that a mid-sized studio just simply can’t continue in the same way,’ co-founder Alex Neuse explains

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The Xbox One version of Quantum Break was the best-selling game in the UK last week. The story-driven action title just beat Codemasters’ Dirt Rally to the No.1 position. Quantum Break is also available on PC, but this data only collects physical sales – the PC version was a digital-only …

Valve has announced that the upcoming ESL One Cologne tournament will be the next Counter-Strike: Global Offensive major. The event, which is set to run between July 5th and 10th at the LANXESS Arena in Cologne, will feature a one million dollar prize pool for the top eight teams from …

Square Enix’s episodic approach to Final Fantasy 7 Remake will adopt an entirely different model to its more recent episodic release, Hitman. GameSpot reports that producer Yoshinori Kitase has said in the latest Game Informer magazine that instead the RPG will be more like how the company approached Final Fantasy …