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If you work in games retail, you might want to take a deep breath before looking at the release schedule for the next month. From next week onwards, there are multiple major launches every few days for the next five weeks. And after that, there’s the onslaught of Black Friday, …

Valve’s PC platform Steam looks to remain out-of-bounds for advertising partners for the foreseeable future. One of the key ways Steam differs from the likes of PSN and Xbox Live is that partners are not able to pay for advertising space within the interface. That seems unlikely to change, too. …

Avalanche Studios talks scalar fields and digital clay ahead of Rico's return

The brand new rally IP from Milan-based Milestone is now set for a January release. This was announced via the game’s official site. The title was originally slated for an October launch, but was pushed back to early 2016, with developer Milestone saying that this was in the interest of …

While still officially a joint project with Square Enix, the RPG sequel to Nier is being developed almost entirely in-house at Platinum Games. "Yes, the development is mostly taking place here at Platinum [in Osaka], and in our Tokyo office," designer Yasuhisa Taura told GameSpot. "But we are of course …

VP of Asia joins firm behind 'Google Docs for devs' game engine

Stonethunder Games founded by Ryan Barker

Series creator was furious about The Bureau's new direction, but had faith in Firaxis to "do a proper X-Com game"

Fresh funding comes from former parent Google, as well as Nintendo and The Pokémon Company

Sports, shooting, mobile – EA is at the top of its game in many genres, but the open-world action genre is one in which it admits it falls short. That, executive VP of EA Studios Patrick Soderlund has told IGN, is exactly the situation that Jade Raymond’s new EA studio …