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TinyBuild Games just announced that Punch Club has grossed over $1m (0.6m) in just 10 days, with more than 100,000 sales across all platforms. It follows the game’s unusual marketing push via the ‘Twitch Plays’ system. Punch Club was launched on Steam on January 8thand on iOS on January 14th. …

The writer of PS4 exclusive Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture picked up the games writing prize at the British Writers’ Guild last night. Dan Pinchbeck of UK studio The Chinese Room beat out competition from murder mystery game Her Story and Failbetter Games’ Sunless Sea. The first person title is …

Developer Lazy Bear Games refused to release the PC and iOS title until it was completed via an audience-controlled live stream

London Games Festival and Games Finance Market in April to match up local talent with international backers

Group led by CEO of mobile publisher Gumi aims to turn Japanese capital into a global hub for nascent platform

Almost ten years ago, Boris Johnson said that computer games ‘rot the brain’ in this Telegraph editorial. But what a difference ten years make. Not only have we seen Boris playing Wii and with VR, now he’s giving the industry he once lambasted 1.2m to relaunch London Games Festival. To …

Skylake architecture offers graphical improvements by up to ’30 times’ on Windows 10, Microsoft claims

Boris Johnson has given the UK games industry 1.2m to launch Games London and develop a new London Games Festival. LGF will take place between April 1st to April 10th, and includes a Games Finance Market, a series of BFI talks, and it will also encompass EGX Rezzed and the …

The Wii U edition of Telltale’s Minecraft: Story Mode is being released this coming Thursday. The developer has announced that the first episode of the game – The Order of the Stone – will be coming out on Thursday, January 21st. This follows Mojang’s Minecraft finally launching on Nintendo’s home …

Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture collects prize, with Her Story and Sunless Sea also shortlisted