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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 …

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 …