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The co-founder and studio head of COD developer Sledgehammer Games has said that the industry must start confronting its diversity problem. As reported by Games Industry, a 2005 report from the International Game Developers Association found that 88.5 per cent of developers were male, 83.3 per cent white and 92 …

A listing for the as-of-yet unannounced Battlefield 5 has turned up online, complete with a very surprising detail. PCGamesN reports that an entry for Battlefield 5 has cropped up on the site of German retailer World of Games. As well as naming PS4, Xbox One and PC as the formats, …

As we countdown to the MCV Awards 2016, which takes place in London on March 3rd, we profile each of the finalists for the Digital Marketing Team category Bethesda The challenge for Fallout 4 was to take a sequel to a game that launched seven years ago and convert the …

This weekend, an event celebrating Pokmon’s 20th birthday will be hosted by none other than ET, Charlie’s Angels and Never Been Kissed star Drew Barrymore. The Los Angeles event – dubbed the Pokmon Afternoon Soiree – is being held tomorrow (Saturday, February 27th), and will be an ‘intimate’ celebration of …

Multiplayer online shooters that lock some of their map content behind paywalls risk fragmenting their community. That’s according to Microsoft’s Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hyrb, who in IGN’s latest Podcast Unlocked episode praised 343 Industries for making Halo 5’s post-release map downloads free to all players, GameSpot reports. [DLC passes can …

WatchKit extension also added for devs building games for Apple Watch

Customers who buy products such as Rise of The Tomb Raider on Microsoft’s Windows Store as opposed to rival services such as Steam aren’t getting exactly the same game. That’s according to How-To Geek which reports that differences between how purchases are delivered result in the Windows Store version missing …

EA’s near abandonment of Nintendo hardware could be about to change. NintendoLife reports not only that EA is already in possession of NX dev kits, which would be in line with previous reports, but also that meetings are planned in the coming weeks that the platform holder hopes will get …

Super sampling for displacement surfaces, cascade shadow maps, phong specular highlights and map blending among graphical improvements made to shooter

Japanese mobile giant DeNA has announced it is closing down its Transformers title Battle Tactics this May Posting on the publisher’s forums– as spotted by Seibertron–an admin revealed that Battle Tactics was to cease operations in the coming months. In addition, the admin – Nick – announced a timeline of …