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Homefront is dead; long live Homefront. The 2011 shooter came to market with lofty aspirations, positioned from the off as THQ’s attempt to steal a slice of the market dominated by Battlefield and Call of Duty. It tried to present a more grounded narrative, centred on resistance fighters in a …

Bethesda has said that Fallout 4 sold-in 12m units of Fallout 4 for this week’s launch day. Now, as is always the way nowadays, this requires some interpretation. This is not a launch sales number in the vein of Modern Warfare 3’s 6.5m day one unit sales. Instead, Bethesda has …

New team Epic War will be dedicated to Mobile Strike, a strategy title fronted by Arnie himself

MCV and Develop’s content marketplace Interface returned for another successful outing yesterday – and you can now see some pictures from the day. As well as the expo, which was attended by more than 100 indie developers and small studios eager to see the latest independent titles and speak with …

Unity has announced it has acquired one of its partner studios, which was previously contracted to handle the engine’s development for PlayStation platforms. UK developer Engine Room Games will now become an official Unity studio, continuing its work on Unity support for PlayStation VR, according to the tech firm’sofficial blog. …

UK studio behind tech’s PlayStation development is now part of Unity Technologies

The Terminator and former Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has become the latest celebrity to be recruited by Game of War dev Machine Zone. VentureBeat reports that he is to be the face of a new title called Mobile Strike, which is being published by a new Machine Zone division called …

Advice on how to pitch, get funding and spread the word about your release from experts across the industry

Digital skills champion Ian Livingstone discusses an ambitious new project that hopes to upskills the UK's aspiring games creators

Over 100 indie developers and small studios packed into St Mary’s Church in London yesterday to get invaluable advice on funding, marketing and more – and to pitch their games to publishers looking for new IP. Interface returned to London for its second outing, with each conference session packed out. …