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The Smite World Championships 2016 will comprise of both a PC and Xbox One tournament when it returns to Atlanta’s Cobb Performing Arts Centre on January 7-10 . Hi-Rez Studios revealed the championships, now renamedSmite World Championship Presented By Xbox One, will test players of the original PC title and …

A new study has found that the majority of teenage boys in the US believe that games unfairly treat women as sex objects. A Time study by Rosalind Wiseman asked US school boys whether they believed female characters are treated too often as sex objects” in video games. 47 per …

The N3twork CEO and ngmoco founder discusses five ways to increase revenues in a market set to explode

Work-for-hire studio and Develop Awards finalist embraces Perforce’s latest product

Analytics firm’s new venture aims to help indies soft launch games in key territories

Sven Folkesson joins Warhammer: End Times firm from Nuday Games

Does Reddit have a gender discrimination problem that it needs to address?” That’s the question being posed to Reddit after news that chief engineer Bethanye Blount has quit the company after just two months in the job and just days after CEO Ellen Pao also departed. Pao had endured months …

Both the name of Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima and the logo of his studio Kojima Productions have been dropped from the latest box art for Metal Gear Solid V. These pack shots were uploaded yesterday, with eagle-eyed NeoGAF users spotting that the above details had been dropped Given recent …

Firefox developer Mozilla has announced that the latest version of the browser will block Flash by default. The news comes after a seemingly never-ending string of security concerns about the once popular software, the most recent of which involved the exposure of a major vulnerability detailed in 400GB worth of …

This year’s Develop: Brighton conference will mark a ten-year run in which the industry has changed beyond anyone’s imagining, says Owain Bennallack, who has served a decade on the event’s steering committee