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Everybody’s a critic,” goes the old adage and, in the age of the YouTube comment and customer review, rarely has it seemed more veracious. Examine the Steam or Amazon page for any title and you’ll find hundreds – if not thousands – of players offering their helpful insight into how …

Daybreak Game Company CEO John Smedley has lashed out at a hacker after the Lizard Squad member was convicted on 50,700 hacking chargers. ThoughKivimaki will not be going to prison, Smedley celebrated the verdict on Twitter, claiming it was the Lizard Squard member whobrought his plane downin August last year …

Watch out Skylanders, Anki believes it can become a new force in toys-to-life with its upcoming racing game: Anki Overdrive. Co-founder and president of Anki, Hanns Tappeiner, accused toys-to-life rivals such as Disney Infinity and LEGO Dimensions of ‘just copying Skylanders’, and said that his game will offer retailers something …

Daybreak boss threatens legal action

Team 17 has revealed that it is working on a new version of its indie hit The Escapists themed around TV series The Walking Dead. The indie label has teamed up the licence holder Skybound Entertainment to produce a The Escapists: The Walking Dead game. The release stars series hero …

Graphics card specialist AMD looks to be giving up on its PC gaming API Mantle. Mantle was announced in 2013 and was supposed to be an alternative to Microsoft’s DirectX, allowing developers the chance to use more of the power available in PC hardware and AMD GPUs than would otherwise …

The reboot of television show Heroes, Reborn, is going to be joined by both mobile and console titles. The mobile version – coming to iOS and Android – is entitled Heroes Reborn: Enigma. Meanwhile the console and PC title is called Heroes Reborn: Gemini. Both are being made by Chicago-based …

Final form of BBC Micro successor includes accelerometer, magnetometer and Bluetooth

Batman and LEGO have helped Warner Bros rise to the top of the publisher rankings once again, according to GfK Chart-Track. The firm published 27.6 per cent of thephysical games sold in June with Batman: Arkham Knight at No.1 and LEGO Jurassic Park at No.3. In second place is Bethesda, …

SuperData's Joost van Dreunen on how Oculus, Valve, Sony, Microsoft and Google are taking on the market