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Echo Fox on Tuesday announced an expansion into Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, with Mohamad"m0E"Assad and Sean"sgares"Gares leading the charge. The expansion into Counter-Strike comes just more than a month after Echo Fox’s League of Legends branch was announced on Dec. 18. Speaking to ESPN, Echo Fox owner Rick Fox, a former …

Eternal Crusade – the Warhammer 40,000 title from Behaviour – is finally launching later this year. This announcement comes by way of Bandai Namco who is picking up publishing duties for the title. The game is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Eternal Crusade was originally announced in …

The smartphone sector is king, consuming all other formats in its wake, right? Apparently not. Actually, the good ol’ PC still rules the roost. The latest report by SuperData Research shows that the downloadable PC games market earned over $32bn last year – significantly more than the $25.1bn earned by …

Pixelmage Games, the studio headed up by John Smedley, has pulled its Kickstarter campaign for debut title Hero’s Song. The campaign had only been running for one week and was attempting to raise $800,000. After seven days, 3,037 backers had only managed to pledge $136,849 towards this ambitious target. We’ve …

Former SOE boss admits that Pixelmage Games “made mistakes” with first crowdfunding push

Three Fields’ in-development sports game has at last been revealed. It’s called Dangerous Golf and it’s due out on PS4, Xbox One and PC in May and is described as a physics-powered experience – that’s no surprise from key members of the team who first brought us the creative destruction …

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You haven’t got long left to participate in MCV’s Salary Survey. The Salary Survey will be closing at 5pm tomorrow (Wednesday, December 27th). In December, MCV launched its Salary Survey with sister title Develop to form a detailed look at the games industry jobs market and see just how much …

Today, Soedesco is an up and coming indie publisher, but this is a relatively new business for the company. The firm opened its doors in 2001 and until recently was publishing game and accessories bundles. For example, it was behind a Resident Evil 4 and Light Gun bundle for the …