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In a contrast to the UK’s Halo-ruled rankings, Japan’s retail charts were last week dominated by home-grown titles from the territory. The only Western title to make the Top Ten was the debut of sports game NBA 2K16, which achieved seventh place, according to the latest data from Famitsu. Both …

Highly popular RPG The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is already up and running – but a release is far from certain. That’s because the game was ported as part of the development of Fallout 4 in an effort to get Bethesda Game Studios up to speed with working on Microsoft’s …

Newly-created position will see Howell oversee development of Fuse & Sparx engine, as well as global tech strategy

Sony stormed the shores of France last weekwith their eyes set firmly on Paris Games Week’s centre stage. The company ignited the hearts of the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles crowd with a hearty press conference full of exciting games and an arsenal of mind-blowing tech. Amid a flurry of …

eSports betting service Unikrn has introduced a new “competitive integrity certification” program to better address the growing issue of match fixing and other forms of cheating pervading pro gaming events. Games Industry reports Unikrn’s program is meant to build a foundation of best practices to ensure the integrity of eSports. …

If you’re one of the those unlucky people who still don’t have access to theOverwatchbeta, you’re not alone. And there are 7 million reasons why you may still have to wait. That’s the number of people currently registered for theOverwatchbeta, according to Mike Morhaime, Blizzard’s president, who spoke to investors …

Publisher/developer seeking new indies to sign on November 12th

The future of series creator Hideo Kojima remains up in the air, but thoughts internally at Konami have apparently already turned to the next release in the Metal Gear series. Kotaku reports that the print edition of the latest Nikkei that Konami has already started ‘mulling over plans’ for a …

Intel Developer Blog: Softtalkblog blog shares some libraries you may not know you can access for free

Social games firm Zynga has announced the departure of its chief financial officer in spite of the publisher posting financial results exceeding its expectations. Zynga forecasted $155m to $170m for the quarter, and beat these predictions by recording bookings of $176m. This is an increase of $1m year-on-year – in …