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Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima was blacked by Konami from accepting an award at last night’s Game Awards event. Instead, Metal Gear Solid V star Kiefer Sutherland took to the stage to accept the prize for Best Action/Adventure Game. "Hideo Kojima is not here with us tonight and I …

Ubisoft has released Rayman Adventures on iOS and Android platforms. The free-to-play title is available to download now for both smartphones and tablets on the App Store and Google Play. The game currently packs more than 150 levels, with more planned to arrive through periodic updates. The upcoming Apple TV …

Mobile games company DeNA Group has confirmed layoffs at its Singapore office. Tech In Asiareports DeNA has cut an unspecified number of jobs, while moving the remaining majority of the location’s staff to the firm’s Vietnam branch. The office staffed around 50 employees prior to the cuts, and will remain …

Listings for PS4 and Xbox One editions of Dirt: Rally have popped up on Taiwan’s rating board. VG247reports both Playstation and Xbox ratings list Codemasters as publisher, but there’s no word of a release date or window. The ratings aren’t official confirmation, but a console release is always something that’s …

HTML5-based Interactive Interstitial adverts, allowing customisable user experiences, also launched

The Quality of Life aspirations of the late Satoru Iwata remain in development at Nintendo. That’s the message from Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima, although the exec remained relatively cagey on the subject in what was an otherwise pretty frank interview. Mr Iwata had, when he previously talked about the quality …

Nintendo’s NX console will not follow the path laid out by either the Wii or the Wii U. I’ve said it’s different and obviously a new experience,” Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima told TIME. If you look back to the beginning of our conversation today, we talked about the transition from …

Peter Moore has questioned the uncertainties posed by GameStop about the performance of Star wars Battlefront. The retailer last month said that the game had failed to hit its already lowered sales expectations. EA’s COO, however, has said such a claim came as a surprise to him and that the …

A designer for upcoming Sega title Total War: Warhammer has said that the studio has been left a little down in the dumps by the fury that greeted its recent pre-order DLC announcement. The announcement in October that the popular Chaos race will be locked behind a pre-order paywall was …

For the past four years, PlayStation’s Shahid Ahmad has had one of the coolest jobs in the games industry. As head of the firm’s Strategic Content division, it’s been his responsibility to bring the best indie games to the platform. He signed the likes of Mike Bithell’s Thomas Was Alone, …