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CEO Ruben Cortez tells us more about his 'crowdpublishing' platform and how it plans to shake up games development

Former 3DO vice president helped engineer custom chips for Amiga computer released in 1985

An HD compilation of the BioShock franchise has popped up again. This time it has appeared on the Brazilian Advisory Rating Board– the nation’s age rating programme – for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (credit for the spot goes to Gematsu). BioShock: The Collection was …

'When I feel the world is ready, then we will allow normal people to buy it,' says creator Alex Kipman

New IP suggested by Japanese partnership

Less than a quarter of those working in games are women, reveals CEO Michael Gallagher

Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops III claims its 11th week at the top spot in the UK and outperforms newcomer Street Fighter V. No other entry in the first person shooter series has claimed this many No.1s – the previous record was 2009’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 …

Mobile outlet continues battle between media giant and Guillemot brothers, following attempted takeover of Ubisoft last year

$800. That’s the amount it will take to buy HTC’s Steam VR Vive headset on launch day. It’s a staggering amount of money, even surpassing Oculus Rift’s at-the-time astonishing $600 RRP. That, incidentally, translated to 500 in the UK, so if Vive follows the same pattern we could be looking …

Apple boss Tim Cook has received the backing of Google CEO Sundar Pichai in his security row with the US government. Cook earlier this week said he would not abide by FBI orders to create what he sees as a security backdoor to iOS that allow authorities to access a …