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The London Games Festival kicks off today and runs until April 10th. There are 32 events set to take place across nine days, with over 500 games to be shown. There are two sets of events – official ones such as BAFTA and Rezzed, and ‘fringe’ events, which includes the …

Mobile Business Division will ‘aggressively’ utilise the publisher’s IP, with Monster Hunter and Mega Man spin-offs planned by early 2017

At this point in time, you may know Quantum Break as a game with enormous scope involving time travel, branching narratives, time travel and its own TV show. But it was not always this way. In fact, the game was the result of Remedy – fresh off the release of …

Sony has announced that YouTube channel PlayStation Access has reached one million subscribers. The platform holder has said that that outlet has grown top be the biggest PlayStation channel in the European, Middle East and Africa regions. PlayStation Access launched in 2010, and Sony says that the site is home …

We round up the (questionably) funny efforts of the development industry for 2016's April Fools' Day

KISS has signed up as a meeting host for the third iteration of Interface, a joint venture between MCV and Develop. The publisher will be taking part in a series of prearranged one-to-one meetings, where developers can pitch their games face-to-face in the hopes of securing that all-important publishing deal, …

Just before Christmas GAME warned its shareholders that sales had been lower than expected. The news of a disappointing festive period can be a critical blow to any retailer, but especially to one in a market like video games, which is so heavily dependant on Q4. The profit warning was …

Japanese publisher Capcom has opened a new mobile business division. The company has announced via its investor relations page that it has ‘intergrated’ mobile games company Beeline Interactive Japan to this end, with the firm being renamed Capcom Mobile Co. Capcom says this is part of a plan to ‘aggressively …

Publisher will be one of several companies keen to meet developers in London next month

TinyBuild has condemned the use of DRM to stop illegal downloading, despite its latest game being heavily pirated. Punch Club on smartphones and PC was purchased by 300,000 people, but downloaded illegally by another 1.6 million – that’s 81 per cent of the total players. But TinyBuild CEO Alex Nichiporchik …