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Indie hit Firewatch has out-performed developer Campo Santo’s commercial predictions. The developer announced the good news via its Twitter account, saying: Firewatch has out-sold our wildest expectations. Campo Santo is going to be around for a while and we can’t wait to make whatever is next. Thank you to everyone …

Streaming service Twitch has announced plans to preserve a video’s chat as part of its archive. Which sounds horrific, although to be fair while the chat on more popular streams is often akin to actual hell on earth, smaller streams can often be more productive and interactive. And dare we …

Move aside, Duke Nukem Forever – there’s a new contender for the longest-developed game of all time. Unreal World has finally come to Steam, after nearly three decades in development. That’s right – the sandbox RPG has been worked on for 26 years by a team of two people. Head …

Japanese developer Marvelous has postponed the release of an upcoming Vita game because it is concerned there is not enough interest to make it financially viable. Siliconera reports that Uppers was due for release on April 21st, but producer Kenichiro Takaki has confirmed that pre-orders were so low the company …

Special address, Unity Dev Day and more lined up for San Francisco next month

Philip Bang joins from Wooga to oversee strategy games

Release date and price expected to be revealed in San Francisco next month

Things continue to look distinctly unhealthy for former social gaming giant, Zynga. According to VentureBeat, Zynga has confirmed a report fromlocal blog SFist that the social firm was selling its San Francisco HQ (pictured). The blog also reports that the property is 670,000 square feet and according to San Francisco …

Unreal World started life as a shareware ASCII RPG in 1990

Call of Duty publisher claims it is now "the largest game network in the world"