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Nintendo has confirmed that Wii U owners will be able to try Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water for free. The game is to receive a digital-only release in the US. Furthermore, it will be ‘free-to-start’ with the prologue and its first two chapters available to play for free. Those …

Mainstream sports bookmaker’s Betway are seeing a ‘huge surge’ in eSports flutters as the launch bespoke microsite. The company, which offers betting options across a range of sports and other entertainment, such as poker and bingo, is now looking to capitalise on increased interest from eSports bettors. According to Marketing …

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Riot Games Vice President of Esports Dustin Beck discusses League of Legends” growing audience with Brad Stone on Bloomberg West.” The video covers many of the macro points of eSports business for a wider market audience. Watch the video at Bloomberg >>>

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'We’ll potentially be looking at things like movies in the future,' says Shigeru Miyamoto

Studio Frozenbyte has said that criticism of its recent release Trine 3 may mean that it ditches any further development of the series. Trine 3 was released last week but has been stung by a string of scathing Steam under reviews, mostly due to its length (said to be around …

More than half of the top ten devs were British – and that’s without recent indie hits

Frozenbyte says it was overambitious as original vision for latest entry would have trebled game's development costs to $15m

Ubisoft’s quirky platformer Grow Home will be released on PS4, and will be free to PlayStation Plus subscribers. The existence of the console version of the game was uncovered last month at the same time Sony unveiled plans to allow gamers to vote on future PS+ Instant Game Collections selections. …