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The studio head of Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture developer The Chinese Room Jessica Curry is leaving the studio. In a very personal blog post Curry revealed that her health is playing a big part, with a fight against a degenerative disease proving a tough battle to fight. Two other …

Games that have been removed from Apple’s App Store appear to be once again showing up in user’s purchase history. However, the truth behind Apple’s policy change – if indeed there has been one – remains uncertain. It was reported earlier this week that apps that have been removed from …

Nearly 150 games available through subscription service

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has admitted that he doesn’t know if the Xbox One can ever catch PS4. "You know, I don’t know,” he responded when asked that exact question at the GeekWire Summit 2015, as reported by Videogamer. You know, the length of the generation… They [Sony] have a …

5th Cell impressed by success of Outer Wilds

Riot’s decision to block advertising from select key resellers at the 2015 League of Legends World Championships has been heavily criticised by G2A. Earlier this week it was revealed that Riot had ordered teams at the event to pull all sponsored branding for the retailer. The move concerned a disagreement …

Engine and services firm working on making old games playable on new browsers

Sony’s streaming games service PlayStation Now has now officially launched in the UK. Having entered beta back in June, Sony has now introduced a monthly subscription service priced at 12.99. Individual titles can be rented for 2.99 and the whole thing can be tried for free for seven days. Over …

Full release expected in June 2016

Unity’s business is changing, and to support this the company has embarked on a mass recruitment drive. The company has long been one of the major go-to game engines in the industry. But arguably it hasn’t had the huge scale you might expect for the team behind such a widely-used …