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The creators of League of Legends and Call of Duty have once again made it into Fortune’s ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ league table. Riot Games features in 39th place, down from 13 last year. Stats show that 23 per cent of its workforce is female and that its …

Meta 2 DK costs $950, enables AR users to interact with digital objects

Support for the Oculus Rift on Mac will only happen when Apple ups the GPU performance of its machines, Palmer Luckey has said. The Oculus CEO was speaking toShack Newswhen he revealed that the ball for VR support was entirely in Apple’s court, and that Oculus would love to support …

The next Monster Hunter will reach 3DS this summer, Nintendo has announced. Monster Hunter Generations is, according to the company, ‘the most customisable Monster Hunter experience to date’. The title went by the name Monster Hunter X in Japan. Monster Hunter is one of the most popular game franchises in …

Sports Interactive head Miles Jacobson was named Person of the Year at last night’s MCV Awards. And to herald his appearance on stage, a special video was created featuring industry legends such as Andy Payne, Paul Collyer and Ian Livingstone, as well as charity War Child. The video charts the …

A writer for developer Remedy has said that he was left a little baffled by the angry reaction to last month’s news that Quantum Break will be released for PC. Xbox boss Phil Spencer previously took to Twitter to calm the furious masses who felt that the game’s release on …

Engine creator to share the “State of Unreal” on Wednesday, March 16th

Pictures from last night’s 2016 MCV Awards are now available to view online. Whether you were unable to attend and want to see your industry colleagues dressed up in all their splendour, or you were in attendance and want a reminder of how last night went, a full album of …

Future has announced a pair of senior promotions within the GamesRadar global editorial team. Susan Arendt has been named as US executive editor. She joined the site as managing editor from Joystiq a year ago. Meanwhile, commissioning editor Matt Elliot joins the global senior editorial team as senior commissioning editor. …

Epic founder Tim Sweeney has severely criticised what he sees at Microsoft’s attempt to take control of the PC games market via its new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) standard. Windows 10 apps and games – including the upcoming Quantum Break and Forza 6: Apex, and recent release Gears of War …