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Valve have announced details of the next stop on their seasonal Majors tour, with Manila’s Mall of Asia playing host to a second Dota 2 tournament of the year. The Manila Major will take place over June 7-12, two months after ESL One Manila hosts another premier Dota tournament in …

Motion capture systems overhauled with rental pricing schemes, additional languages and new hardware bundles

Next month’s London Games Festival will offer a range of summits touching upon some of the most pressing subjects affecting the global games industry. Tickets are on sale for the talks, which will focus on virtual reality, eSports, games finance, games culture and audio. Each will feature a number of …

Fictional US president Frank Underwood’s latest gaming darling is another indie hit. In the early series of Netflix hit House of Cards, the then presidential hopeful was a big Call of Duty player and in one episode openly coveted a PlayStation Vita. In the third series, Ustwo’s mobile puzzle title …

Head of Angry Birds 2 developer temporarily replaced by creative director Patrick Liu

Limited free passes for indie developers – register now for May 5th London event

Interface is returning to London on May 5th at St Mary’s Church – inviting publishers, developers and investors to make new connections and do business in a unique and informative event. The event will bring together over 350 firms in a series of one-to-one pitching meetings, informative masterclass sessions as …

Develop:VR will take place on November 24th in London

The editor for franchises including Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Guild Wars and Gears of War is to leave games development completely. Cameron Harris has been at BioWare since late 2013, working on titles such as Dragon Age: Inquisition and upcoming sci-fi sequel Mass Effect: Andromeda. I’ve decided to exit the …

Kickstarters and regular blog posts are in danger of glossing over the public’s appreciation of the harsh realities involved in bringing a game to market. Develop asks leading devs at Playtonic, Cloud Imperium, Ninja Theory and Epic about potential ways to educate the masses