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Having won plenty of admirers throughout its stint on Steam Early Access, Darkest Dungeon now has a full release date. The game, which earned Kickstarter backing of $313,337 and hit Early Access in February, will be released on January 19th. This community has grown beyond our expectations, and we’re both …

This year’s London Games Conference is providing delegates with an insight into how video is being used to sell, share and promote games – and the initial line-up of speakers will discuss this from a variety of angles. The conference takes place on Thursday November 19th at the Congress Centre, …

Shares in both Ubisoft and Gameloft have lifted after former Activision parent Vivendi acquired a stake in the pair. Bloomberg reports that Vivendi has paid €140m for a 6.6 per cent share of Ubisoft and €19.7m for 6.2 per cent of Gameloft. Vivendi’s former interest in Activision was brought to …

Ninja Theory's Tameem Antoniades discusses how past games have exacerbated the stigma around conditions like schizophrenia – and how his new game will change this

CD Project’s Jose Teixeira says multiplayer and microtransactions are not essential when satisfying gamers

Film director Guillermo del Toro has slammed Konami’s cancellation of his and Hideo Kojima’s Silent Hills title. He also likened the project to Naughty Dog’s successful PlayStation title The Last of Us. It was curious,” he told Bloody Disgusting when asked about his experiences working on the title. We had …

New tools available to develop cross-platform games

Company now owns 6.6 per cent and 6.2 per cent of games firm stocks

Microsoft says that over 80 per cent of UK gamers will have already seen an ad for Halo 5. The firm is splashing the cash on the launch of the sci-fi FPS, which it says will be the biggest Xbox One launch to-date. The campaign started back in January with …

In 1986, Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski entered a short story titled Wiedzmin (‘The Witcher’) into a competition in the local magazine Fantastyka. It won third place. 29 years later, on May 19th 2015, the third in The Witcher series of video games was released. It sold six million copies in …