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A defiant ESA, the organiser of E3, says the LA expo is ‘essential and critical’ to the games industry. Its comments come after Activision joined EA in not renewing its E3 booth for 2016. The two businesses follow the likes of Sega, Bandai Namco and Disney in no-longer booking space …

“Microsoft has no right to impose its certification regime on software obtained outside of its store”

Free-to-play outlet founded a new Games arm last year

PlayStation is holding a job fair for Lionhead employees on Monday. The Xbox-owned studio is facing closure following the cancellation of its game, Fable Legends, earlier this week. PlayStation operates a number of UK outfits, including Media Molecule, Guerrilla Cambridge and London Studios, all of which are working on PS4 …

Toki Tori developer Two Tribes has said that it is calling time on game development following the release of its next title Rive. The studio will remain operational and continue to support its existing games, but it has no plans to release any further games. In a long statement, the …

Recruitment event to be held on Monday, March 14th in Guildford

The Wii U actually had a No.1 game in the UK. Every week on this very website, we publish the ‘All-Formats Charts’. This week, Far Cry Primal was No.1. That included physical sales of the game on PS4 and Xbox One. However, if you only count individual consoles, Zelda: Twilight …

Current project Rive will be studio’s final game before focusing on support and operations

February marked another sales victory for Sony’s PlayStation 4 in the US. VentureBeat reports that the result means that PS4 has outsold Xbox One for 12 of the last 14 months in the region, with Sony saying: We continued to see strong year-over-year sales growth for PS4 hardware and software …

Phil Spencer’s repetitive insistence that Xbox remains ‘committed to first party’ seems to be falling on deaf ears. Because, as some of the firm’s more vocal critics will tell you, what Microsoft says and what Microsoft does are often very different. It’s just announced the intention to close two internal …