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Many folk expected Blizzard’s upcoming team shooter Overwatch to be a free-to-play title. These folk were wrong. As well as revealing the game will be coming to PS4 and Xbox One as well as PC, the developer has also confirmed that the Standard Edition of the game on PC will …

Video game accessories company Mad Catz has worked with pro gamers to design eSports products and improve consumer gaming peripherals. The sales of video game controllers, headsets, steering wheels, fight sticks, PC keyboards, and mice is big business worldwide. The North American console and PC video game accessories and peripherals …

Film due to hit big screens in September 2016

Winners to be revealed on November 12th

That got your attention, didn’t it? Yup, turns out Counter Strike: Global Offensive has a hundred times as many Steam users as the most popular COD on the platform. Turns out you really can’t keep a good terrorist-kiboshing force down. A quick look atSteam’s stats pageshows you a hundred of …

Debbie Bestwick explains why the term ‘indie’ could hinder your chances of success

The incredibly rare hardware collaboration between two of the industry’s giants has seemingly been proved real. The ‘SNES PlayStation’ was re-discovered back in July after a Reddit user posted images of the long-lost prototype unit, of which only 200 were made. Created before the original PlayStation, the machine was the …

Deadly Premonition dev taking a break to recover from health issues

2K parent company Take Two has announced it is closing its Shanghai studio. The company confirmed the above to GamesIndustry.biz, who reports that 2K China – the studio in charge of development on China-exclusive MMO Borderlands Online – has been closed. This office was home to roughly 150 members of …

150 jobs lost, but Take-Two working to ‘help identify new opportunities within the company’