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Adult video site Pornhub has said that the release of Fallout 4 caused a temporary dip in its traffic. The site told VentureBeat that traffic among its gaming users fell 10 per cent upon the game’s release. Traffic first started falling at around 5am US time on the day of …

The crowdfunded spiritual successor to adventure titles Myst and Riven has attracted the original composer for those games. Robyn Miller confirmed on Twitter that he will score the soundtrack for Obduction, adding that the game looks amazing”. Obduction was crowdfunded via Kickstarter back in 2013, with a launch this year …

Testronic Labs has signed on as the headline sponsor of this year’s Develop 100. First published in 2005, The Develop 100 celebrates its tenth anniversary this year and returns to print for the first time since 2011, included with the upcoming December/January issue of Develop magazine. This year, we will …

Newly-formed position goes to latest recruit Kathy Astromoff, founder of Blink

A kids game for handhelds that involves capturing fantastical creatures, then battling them against rival monsters. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. No, it’s not Pokmon we speak of, but newcomer Yo-Kai Watch. Like Nintendo’s critter-catcher, the ghost-hunting series has taken Japan by storm, crossing from 3DS into …

Upstairs and out of the way at BlizzCon were a series of rooms where Blizzard developers from a variety of teams were hidden away. Inside one of these rooms was Hamilton Chu, Executive Producer for Hearthstone, and we took the opportunity to have a frank discussion about the nature of …

Japanese mobile giant DeNA has been discussing details of its Nintendo partnership with investors. The answers came at the end of DeNA’s Q2 investor briefing last week, from which MCV has previously reported that the company has confirmed that all of its in-development Nintendo titles are free-to-play, but at least …

Blizzard has revealed that the latest expansion to its sci-fi RTS StarCraft II has shifted over one million units since it launched last Friday (November 13th). The publisher announced this via its StarCraft Twitter account on Friday at 8:35pm UK time (below). Legacy of the Void debuted at No.23 in …

QA and localisation firm supporting this year's ranking of the world's best studios

Initial round will focus on early stage developers with new IP, second round of funding to follow next year