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Owners of the Xperia Z3 or Xperia Z4 are now able to stream their mobile games directly to Twitch. That’s thanks to a partnership between the video network and Sony and marks a first for Twitch, which until now hasn’t offered a mobile streaming solution outside of a few select …

As the audience for gaming video content nears half a billion people, a new report has highlighted live streaming’s quick rise to the top. 468 million viewers around the world now digest games-related video content such as walkthroughs, trailers and live streams, according to research firm SuperData’s Gaming Video Content …

This year’s Hitman game will be a ‘digital first’ episodic release, although developer Io Interactive prefers not to use that term itself. We’re doing things a bit differently,” the studio said. Hitman will launch on PS4, Xbox One and PC on December 8th this year as a digital download. That’s …

Thousands upon thousands of young people – decked out in branded t-shirts – swarmed around a sold-out Wembley Arena in April this year. But they weren’t there to see Taylor Swift or Fall Out Boy, these music lovers were queuing up to witness the London Philharmonic Orchestra perform classic songs …

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Riot claims to be winning the battle against toxic player behaviour. The studio’s lead game designer of social systems Jeffrey ‘Lyte’ Lin has in a post on Re/Code argued the effectiveness of League of Legends’ Tribunal system. As a result of these governance systems changing online cultural norms, incidences of …

Here at Edge Case Games, we took our paid Early Access title and made it free, for keeps, for a long weekend. Here we look at the impact this unusual promotion had on our game and our studio

A new promotional video designed to highlight Hololens’ educational credentials has given a more accurate glimpse of how using the headset works in practise. Microsoft’s Minecraft Hololens demo was arguably the standout moment of E3 (you can see it in action here) but much of the device’s post-event coverage has …

We catch up with the QA firm ahead of next week's awards

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 …