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Ahead of its Uncovered: Final Fantasy XV live stream tonight, Square Enix has been pushing the title at London’s own Waterloo Station. The publisher was displaying an ad for the upcoming RPG on the 120 square metre display at the transport hub. Square claims this is the largest indoor LED …

Dambuster Studios was purchased from TimeSplitters IP holder Crytek by Deep Silver in 2014

London’s O2 arena will host the final stage of ESL Pro League Season 3 as eight CS:GO teams from Europe and North America compete for $750,000 prize money. The finals, taking place over the May 14-15 weekend, pit the four best European teams against their North American counterparts at the …

The next generation of Pascal-based Nvidia graphics cards could at last be revealed at an Nvidia event next week. WCCF Tech reports that a shipping manifest for the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference Keynote on April 4th lists four new SKUs, one of which is certainly either the GTX 1080 or …

There are a handful of jobs that quickly spring to mind for whichforeignerscan obtain aJapanese work visa. Language instructor is by far the most common, but skilled positions in banking and finance, as well as certain engineering disciplines, are also viable avenues by which to secure the legal right to …

The gap between mobile gaming and the chasing pack is getting wider. VentureBeat has word on an App Annie and IDC report that says the mobile games market was worth $34.8bn worldwide in 2015. PC and Mac gaming, meanwhile, clocked in at around $29bn and console gaming at $18.5bn. Handheld …

If you haven’t been paying attention to the PC gaming market over the past few years, you may not have noticed that competitive video gaming has gone from a barely-understood niche industry to a sector that’s already competing with regular professional sports. Case in point: theLeague of Legendsworld finals match …

Indiecouch.org aims to encourage game creators to open up their sofa to fellow devs during industry festivals and events

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has ruled that Valve’s Steam service breached Australian consumer law. A disagreement between Valve and the ACCC kicked off in 2014 when the Steam owner was sued over its lack of refund policy. Such a policy was eventually introduced last year, but that …

‘The market of hit-driven arcade games has become extremely competitive,’ explains head of studio