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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 …

Jumo unveils new toys/games hybrid Infinite Arms, due this summer

Driveclub devs hope to continue creating games

UFC fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov has lambasted EA for giving his avatar a religiously inappropriate celebration in UFC 2. Eurogamer reports that in the game Nurmagomedov, who is a practising Muslim, can at times after a victory make the sign of the cross over his chest. The animation can be triggered …

The team behind Driveclub wants to keep on working together, following the news of the studio’s closure. Sony announced yesterday that Evolution, well known for its racing games, would close–a year after the firm made 55 redundancies to the team. MotorStorm and Driveclub senior community manager Jamie Brayshaw said on …

Earlier today it was announced by Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles, Erik "DoA" Lonnquist and Christopher "PapaSmithy" Smith that they would not be attending the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational due to a failure to come to an agreement on contract terms. The three casters currently work for Ongamenet in South Korea, where each …