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Xbox One title Project Spark is ditching its free-to-play elements and becoming a properly free game. From October 5th all of the title’s previously premium content will be offered for free to both new and existing users. On the same day developers Team Dakota and Skybox Labs will introduce a …

Joe Kaminkow and Lincoln Brown both promoted to senior vice president of games

Claims that nausea is caused by the hardware are "b******t", according to writer Chet Faliszek

Over 20,000 people attended TwitchCon 2015 this past weekend, the game-broadcasting platform has announced. The company also revealed that 1.9m unique online viewers tuned in to the show’s various streams. TwitchCon’s inaugural event took place this past Friday and Saturday in San Francisco, where it was announced that the website …

FarmVille creative director Mark Skaggs has departed from his position as senior vice president of Zynga. Gamasutrareports on a Zynga staff email the site obtained, written by company founder and CEO Mark Pincus. In it, Pincus confirms Skaggs departure without providing any additional details on the matter. Skaggs lead the …

Valve has announced the beginning of a series of Majors for Dota 2 to compliment its annual event The International, with the first to be hosted in Frankfurt in November. According to a post on theDota 2 blog, the event will take place at Festhalle Messe across six days of …

Valve writer Chet Faliszek has said that virtual reality does not inherently cause motion sickness. Instead, Games Industry reports that Faliszek told an EGX audience that the blame for any sickness experienced by players must lie with developers, as the hardware itself is now good enough to avoid such problems. …

Apple’s latest smartphone has, once again, broken sales records for the company. It has been announced that between them the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus sold 13m units in their first three days on sale. This betters the 10m sold by their predecessors the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s …

Network-N’s managing director James Binns has once again been appointed to curate this year’s London Games Conference. Industry veteran Binns, who launched his first media website PCGamesN three years ago, has been key to the event for the past few years – and is currently finalising the programme for the …

We suspect this is not the spoiler it appears to be on face value, but regardless Microsoft’s TV spot for Halo 5: Guardians strikes a downbeat chord for fans of its main star. The video, which you can see below, depicts the global announcement of the death of the Master …