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The forthcoming Resident Evil 2 remake is going to be a ‘from the ground up remake’. That’s according to UK senior marketing director Stuart Turner, who took to Twitter to clarify some confusion surrounding the title. This follows the firms latest financial report, which seems to have referred to the …

Namco’s twenty-year-old patent from original Ridge Racer finally expires

Production designer behind Watchmen, Man of Steel and Minority Report to lead new conference in February

Reflector-based depth mapping and object tracking systems outline headset-free solution for living room

Former Rovio director of advocacy to focus on building brand awareness of UK analytics firm in the US

The second chapter of The Odd Gentlemen’s King’s Quest revival is set to release later this month across all platforms, publisher Sierra has announced. King’s Quest: Rubble Without a Cause will launch December 16th on PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360. The first chapter is available on the …

Developer Image & Form has revealed its latest SteamWorld title will arrive on Nintendo 3DS next Thursday. SteamWorld Heist will debut December 10thon 3DS, with other platforms to follow at later dates. Those other platforms haven’t been made official as of yet, but the Swedish studio’s initial effort with the …

60 jobs have been cut from Microsoft’s HoloLens team in Isreal, the company has confirmed. Techcrunchreports 30 full-time staff and 30 contractors are out of the job this week based on the decision to "wind down work" on HoloLens in the country, and to switch development focus to a "different …

ALeague of Legendsfranchise in China just traded one of last year’s world champions for a newer version. Vici Gamingtoday signed mid laner Lee Easyhoon” Ji-hoon, the understudy ofSK Telecom T1’sdominant Lee Faker” Sang-hyeok. While Easyhoon rode the bench for most of SKT’s road to winning the world championship this year, …

Defunct publisher’s Andy Payne assures that all devs will be given full control of their games