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Nintendo’s turbulent relationship with the online games community continues to fumble along. Kotaku reports that the platform holder has seen fit to wipe clean all of the Mario Maker levels created by speedrunner David ‘GrandPOObear’ Hunt. Streaming Mario Maker is 90 per cent of my stream, which is 90 per …

Division focused on putting VR games through their paces to be headed by sector vet Julian Mower

Services firm expands into live operations with new Philippines outfit

Studio says that online policies for competing consoles is last hurdle to cross-platform connectivity

5th Cell, creator of the Scribblenauts series has been forced to cut a number of positions. According to tweets from former lead animator Tim Borrelli, artists, programmers, designers, QA and IT workers are among the 45 staff laid off. Borrelli stated that the first round of losses took place last …

1.6 million units downloaded illegally, with PC accounting for almost 70 per cent

But outlet denies rumours that it is closing completely in wake of cancelled project

Indie publisher TinyBuild has revealed that Punch Club has sold 300,000 units, as well as some alarming information about the degree to which the game has been pirated. The title has been illegally downloaded 1.6m times since it launched earlier this year. That breaks down as one million times on …

Forget basketball or baseball. These students are members of their school’s officialLeague of Legendsteam. And like many young esports hopefuls, their dream is to go pro. According toDaily EsportsandFomos(via tipster Sang), principal Bang Seung Ho ofAhyeon Polytechnic High Schoolin South Korea created an esports department (which was later renamed the …

Publisher Panic has expressed its gratitude for the way in which the video games community has made its recent narrative adventure title Firewatch such a great success. The company has revealed that in its first month Campo Santo’s game sold around 500,000 full-price units. Furthermore, it recouped the money spent …