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Julian Ward, a partner at law firm Hamlins specialising in digital, games and interactive entertainment, weighs up the pros and cons of the UK's latest flagship games event

Will Freeman visits the city of Pune to find out more about this emerging market

On the eve of hisreturnto full-time development, Warren Spector has issued a manifesto of sorts about the shape of triple-A game development. The Deus Ex, Epic Mickey and System Shock creator toldGamasutrathat coming up with more realistic character behaviours and allowing players to form their own narrative through emergent storytelling …

The Yo-Kai Watch video game has been confirmed to launch in Europe at the end of April. Nintendo has announced that the hit Japanese monster title is going to come to 3DS on April 29th. This comes shortly after Viz Media Europe revealed that the animated series based on the …

Ubisoft has revealed that the beta for its new online shooter IP The Division was played by a record-breaking 6.4 million gamers. It is the biggest beta for a new IP on ‘current generation platforms’. That’s PlayStation 4 and Xbox One to you and me. In doing so it beats …

Bethesda has offered another glimpse into the secretive world of digital console game sales. Speaking to Game Informer, Bethesda producer Todd Howard has revealed that RPG hit Fallout 4 sold more digitally on day one that it did physically. To put that into perspective, while the publisher never announced any …

Deus Ex creator highlights character AI and emergent storytelling as the trends that will push game creation forwards

Multiplayer efforts including Marvel: Contest of Champions and Star Wars: Uprising to be prioritised

Oculus owner says that it wants to bring the structure of networks such as Instagram and WhatsApp to virtual reality

An animated series based on Japanese super brand Yo-Kai Watch will debut in over 100 countries in Europe and Africa in the coming months. That’s according todistributorViz Media Europe, which has announced that the Yo-Kai Watch TV show will debut on April 23rd in the UK. In January, the company …