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Trendy Entertainment alleges that former creative director has been secretly helping with Ark: Survival Evolved development

Developer to work on ‘full-fledged’ titles based on existing PlayStation IP

UK retailer GAME says it is not looking to close stores in reaction to its financial results yesterday. The firm revealed adjusted earnings of 33.1m for the first half of its financial year (up until January 23rd), a drop of almost 10m on the same period a year before. The …

ORIGINAL STORY 18/03/16: A snapshot has appeared online that claims to give us our first glimpse of the Nintendo NX controller. The picture comes from Reddit, although Dual Pixels appears to be also claiming some of the credit. The controller that’s shown seems to closely mirror a design first seen …

Virtual reality headsets won’t be available in console-like numbers at launch. That’s according to GAME, which said today that demand could well outstrip supply. "We are very well [versed in] dealing with products in high demand and low stock, and we would assume that virtual reality will fall into that …

High Street retailer GAME has partnered up with The Pokmon Company for the franchise’s 20th birthday. From Friday, March 25th, consumers will be able to pick up a limited edition Pikachu Pokmon card (pictured), marked with the Pokmon 20th branding. This is free with any Pokmon-related purchase in participating GAME …

Telltale has said that Minecraft: Story Mode will live on beyond its initial five episodes. The narrative-based romp, which blends Telltale’s trademark gameplay with Microsoft’s popular brick-building crafting game, had initially been due to end after the release of the fifth episode – for which a release date of March …

Rise of the Tomb Raider scribe Rhianna Pratchett explains why the whole development team should be working with games writers

SuperData Research's Joost van Dreunen discusses how to localise for this lucrative region

Both of HTC Vive’s VR competitors have now said they will also offer room-scale virtual reality. HTC Vive is the only virtual reality headset that will ship with room-scale support. It uses two wall-mounted emitters that allow the headset to track a user as they walk around a designated play …