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Ubisoft is the latest publisher to head to Guildford to offer work to Lionhead staff. Reflections, which most recently worked on The Division, will visit the White House Pub on Thursday, March 17th from 3pm. Xbox-owned Lionhead faces closure following the cancellation of Fable Legends. Reflections staff says they will …

The Division and Grow Home studio will hold event on this Thursday, March 17th

London developer Splash Damage is once again back in the Gears of War fold, developer The Coalition has confirmed. Splash Damage had a hand in the recent Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, having previously worked on the likes of Return to Castle Wolfenstein and its own online shooter Brink. Now …

Newcomer to increasingly popular sector puts the processing power inside the headset, doing away with two of VR’s main gripes

Stingray now compatible with Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, while Maya LT boasts a new quick rig tool, shape authoring toolset and updated game exporter

The revenue generated by game downloads has officially become one of the measures by which the Office of National Statistics measures UK inflation. The ONS has a ‘shopping basket’ of goods that it tracks, with price changes used to gauge how inflation is shifting in the UK. City AM reports …

While players who won’t part with a penny average around 45 minutes daily, adds former Playdom creative director Eric Todd

There’s a new virtual reality headset on the block that looks to address two of the key problems with most VR headsets. The AMD Sulon Q is an all-in-one solution that is not only wire-free, but also does not require users to plus it into a PC or console. There’s …

Engine firm says that new ability is suitable for maximising performance in AR and VR titles

$99 price tag dropped for studios making under $100,000 annually