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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 …

30th iteration of leading developer conference returns from March 14th to 18th

Hideo Kojima’s video game swansong was twice as successful on its release day than the sequel to one of the biggest movies of all time. That’s according to a new Adobe Digital Index report (as reported by VentureBeat) which estimates that Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain raked in …