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The publisher has made some changes to its UK PR and marketing team. Alex Friend joins from Warner Bros as senior brand manager, where he will be handling the Assassin’s Creed series. Friend has worked in the games industry since 2004 when he joined Sega Europe as community manager. He …

Tomasz Gop leaves CI Games over direction of RPG sequel

Episodic narrative-led title Life is Strange has passed the 1m sales mark. Publisher Square Enix said it was incredibly proud” and hailed the number as a huge achievement for the small team working on the game”. The game was released in January, with a Season Pass for all five episodes …

Development of Lords of the Fallen 2 has changed the direction following the departure of executive producer Tomasz Gop from developer CI Games. "We’re grateful for his input, but we have different visions for further development of the series and Tomasz will not be a part of CI Games’ progress,” …

I’m not going to patronise you by going on too much about the success of Minecraft. Much has already been written about Mojang’s runaway hit. Everyone has seen the sales figures. And we can’t miss the piles of merchandise and books in every retailer: from GAME to Primark. Earlier in …

Gfinity have partnered with EGX organisers Gamer Network to run StarCraft 2 and CS:GO tournaments at the Birmingham event. The expo, taking place at Birmingham’s NEC from 24 to 27 September, will now feature an eSports arena for up to "tens of thousands" of fans. The competitions will feature the …

Nvidia has named Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain as the next game to be bundled for free with its graphics cards. For a limited time the Konami title will be offered for free with purchases of GeForce GTX 960, 970, 980 and 980 Ti-based graphics cards as well …

‘We need to fundamentally re-think how we design games’

The Amazon-owned streaming site has redesigned its video player, with half of the player now using HTML5. In a blog post, Twitch said that the controls for the video players will be using HTML5 and JavaScript rather than Flash. However, videos themselves will still be using Flash. But Twitch says …

Film director Rob McLellan has uploaded a short fan demo for a Star Wars virtual reality game. The short film was put together by McLellans visual effects man Craig Stiff, and was produced by HammerheadVR Studios. It takes place across the original (and better) trilogy, featuring iconic scenes such as …