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Jonathan Blow’s second title The Witness is on track for a Braid-smashing week-one sales performance. It’s hard to talk about numbers without breaking NDAs, but The Witness is on track to sell more in a week than Braid sold in its first year, and Braid was a hit indie game,” …

Expanding outside of the world of games will become a common move for big publishers, says SuperData's Joost van Dreunen

Ubisoft is opposing rival publisher EA’s attempts to trademark ‘Ghost’. The firm claims that the trademark will ‘cause confusion’ with its Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon franchise, which has a new entry – Wildlands (pictured) – launching this year. The document indicates that EA attempted to register a Ghost trademark on …

Tech giant also looking to rival Microsoft’s AR technology HoloLens

More devs should implement co-operative multiplayer modes to make the best of both worlds, says Gears of War creator

USC Games Publishing to focus on highlighting ‘innovative’ work from both students and the wider dev community

Remote services for mobile apps and games to be fully shut down on January 28th 2017

This year’s female-led Ghostbusters reboot will be accompanied by an Activision-published console title, it has been reported. Retail Merchandiser claims, in an interview with Sony Pictures Consumer Products senior VP Mark Caplan, that a ‘full-fledged’ Ghostbusters game is on the way to PS4 and Xbox One with an expected release …

Warner Bros’ LEGO Marvel’s Avengers has become the eighth LEGO video game to reach the top spot in the UK charts. The title is the first LEGO Marvel release to reach this milestone, after 2013’s LEGO Marvel Super Heroes debuted in second place behind Call of Duty: Ghosts. The former …

Both original and New 3DS platforms compatible, with editor aiming to ship as a plug-in